Measures to Improve the Recognition of Pharmacists in the Eyes of the Public and Other

Healthcare Professionals

Please make sure each response/answer/measure that you suggested is linked to or can help the
public and other healthcare professionals to improve their recognition towards a pharmacist or see
the importance of pharmacist and their role in healthcare system/public health.

1. How do public and other healthcare professionals see pharmacist or how is their recognition
towards pharmacists as one of the member of healthcare provider in Malaysia/Indonesia?
2. To what extend a pharmacist play a role in Malaysia/Indonesia healthcare system?
Role in clinical, pharmaceutical industry, community or research?
3. Community pharmacists have greater and better access towards the public. What are the
measures that you think can be done to improve the publics recognition towards pharmacist
so that they could see the importance of pharmacist in terms of safe use of medicine, early
prevention of disease and healthy lifestyle.
They could think that even doctors or nurses can do these jobs. What difference can a
pharmacist do to bring significant benefits to the patients and publics health?
4. Current scenario is that some retail pharmacy also sells non-drug products such as
supplements, cosmetics, health devices, toiletries etc. In what way a pharmacist can better
equip themselves in helping the customer/public in the safe use of supplements and cosmetics
or give better recommendation about the selection of other non-drug products so as to
improve customer/publics quality of life and the adoption of healthy lifestyle.
5. In clinical field, in what way a pharmacist can improve themselves to be more useful or to be
better in helping doctors achieving patients goal of therapy, other than just becoming doctors
walking drug information books or mobile application resources?
May link about pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, monitoring drug efficacy etc.
6. In what way a pharmacist and nurse or other healthcare professional such as physiotherapist,
dietitian etc can work together for better health outcome in patient?
Advice on drug administration? Patients diet and link with drug-food interaction,
allergies and other precaution?
7. In terms of drug research and pharmaceutical industries, it is undeniable that pharmacist play
a major role in these field. What can a pharmacist do to better equip himself/herself for these
field so that the public or other healthcare professional who also involve in this field could
see better our role and significance?
8. In terms of conflicts of interest, how can a pharmacist in these field better equip
himself/herself so that what is done gives primacy to the patients interests and not the
pharmacists own interest?
May talk about the importance of pharmacist to have good/high sense of ethics and
moral values.