Asian Journal Of Social Pharmacy

Abstract: Objective To promote the reform of team structure of clinical pharmacy education in China by drawing on the experience of the United States. Methods Team structure of higher clinical pharmacy education system in the United States, including quantitative structure and knowledge structure was studied from the two aspects of faculty and students. Results and Conclusion The characteristics of the team structure of the clinical pharmacy education system in the United States were analyzed as follows: the students in clinical pharmacy account for the absolutely larger proportion of the whole students in the school of pharmacy; there is a low student-teacher ratio in the clinical pharmacy education; knowledge structure of the faculty is reasonable; knowledge structure of the students is comprehensive. On the basis of briefly expounding the problems in the team structure of higher clinical pharmacy education in China, some strategies for promoting the reform of the team structure of clinical pharmacy education in China are put forward by drawing on the experience of the United States.

Key words: clinical pharmacy in the United States, higher education system, team structure, faculty structure, student structure