Philippine practice Standards
1: Provides extension
for Pharmacists
 Academic Pharmacy
 Regulatory Pharmacy
 Manufacturing Pharmacy
 Public Health Pharmacy
 Community, Hospital and
Institutional Pharmacy
The Core Competency Standards
1. Practices in professional, legal, and
ethical manner.
2. Places client’s/patient’s welfare at
the center of practice.
3. Demonstrates leadership and
management skills.
4. Demonstrates cultural competence
and effective communication.
5. Engages in interprofessional
collaboration.
6. Commits oneself to continuing
Professional development.
Academic Pharmacy
(Practice area 1)
1. Prepares students to become
professional pharmacists through
effective teaching.
2. Contributes to existing body of
knowledge through conduct of
scientific research.
3. Shares technical expertise to the
members of the community.
4. Enriches teaching with additional
training and practice experience.
Competency Standard No. 1
 Element 1.1: Applies educational
theories and principles to improve
teaching and learning.
 Element 1.2: Facilitates learning
among students.
 Element 1.3: Assesses learning
outcomes among students.
Competency Standard No. 2
 Element 2.1: Identifies critical
research areas to improve pharmacy
practice and health outcomes of the
community.
 Element 2.2: Conducts ethical and
technically sound scientific
research.
 Element 2.3: Translates scientific
research findings for the benefit of
clients/patient’s communities.
Competency Standard No. 3
 Element 3.
services.
Regulatory Pharmacy
(Practice area 2)
1. Represents the organization to
regulatory authorities.
2. Coordinates pertinent regulatory-
related marketing activities of the
organization.
3. Participates in the development of
regulatory guidelines.
4. Ensures quality regulatory
documentation.
5. Ensures compliance to health
vigilance requirements.
Competency Standard No. 1
 Element 1.1: Possesses adequate
product knowledge.
 Element 1.2: Possesses knowledge
on regulatory policies and laws.
 Element 1.3: Demonstrates
effective negotiation skills.
 Element 1.4: Applies for license to
operate of the organization.
 Element 1.5: Applies product
registration to regulatory
authorities.
 Element 1.6: Maintains existing
registrations.
Competency Standard No. 2
 Element 2.1: Participates in
product planning and related
activities.
 Element 2.2: Ensures that all
labeling and marketing-related
materials comply with ethical and
regulatory guidelines.
Competency Standard No. 3
 Element 3.1: Explains local and
international guidelines to the
members of the organization.
 Element 3.2: Contributes in policy-
making and regulatory guidelines
development.
Competency Standard No. 4
 Element 4.1: Contributes to the
development of policies and
standard operating procedures
(SOPs) in the organization.
 Element 4.2: Secures relevant
regulatory documents.
Competency Standard No. 5
  Element 5.1: Contributes to the
development of a health vigilance
system within the organization.
 Element 5.2: Participates in post-
marketing surveillance (PMS).
 Element 5.3: Participates in
organization- or regulatory
authority- initiated product recall.
Manufacturing Pharmacy
(Practice area 3)
1. Participates in quality management
system.
2. Contributes in product life cycle
management.
3. Maintains adequate premises and
equipment.
4. Participates in health vigilance
programs.
Competency Standard No. 1
 Element 1.1: Contributes to good
paper- and electronic- based QMS
documentation.
 Element 1.2: Participates in the
implementation of the organization’s
QMS
 Element 1.3: Engages in activities
related to continuous improvement.
Competency Standard No. 2
 Element 2.1: Understands
production and control operations.
 Element 2.2: Adheres to
established change control systems.
 Element 2.3: Understands the
principles of Good Distribution
Practice (GDP).
Competency Standard No. 3
 Element 3.1: Observes the logical
arrangement of materials,
equipment, operations and
personnel in the workplace.
 Element 3.2: Understands the
principles of Good Storage Practice
(GSP).
 Element 3.3: Complies with the
policies and procedures related to
sanitation and hygiene.
Competency Standard No. 4
 Element 4.1: Contributes in the
development of a health vigilance
system within the organization.
 Element 4.2: Participates in the
Post Marketing Surveillance (PMS).
 Element 4.3: Participates in
organization- or regulatory
authority- initiated product recalls.
Community, Hospital and Institutional
Pharmacy
(Practice area 4)
1. Provides quality medicines and
other health products appropriate to
the needs of the client/patient.
2. Compounds products in a manner
that ensures product quality, safely
and efficacy.
3. Counsels’ client/patient on the safe
and judicious use of medicines and
other health products.
4. Engages actively in client/patient
safety and health promotion
activities.
5. Ensures business sustainability
through efficient processes and
systems.
Competency Standard No. 1
 Element 1.1: Implements a system
of good dispensing practice in
accordance with national standards,
guidelines and policies.
 Element 1.2: Undertakes
prescription validation and
assessment.
 Element 1.3: Maintains pertinent
client/patient information and
medication records.
 Element 1.4: Promotes the
judicious, appropriate, safe and
effective use of prescribed
medicines.
 Element 1.5: Fills prescriptions
accurately.
 Element 1.6: Checks the product
and its label against the
prescription.
 Element 1.7: Identifies the
client/patient when medicines.
 Element 1.8: Manages the record
with privacy and confidentiality.
Competency Standard No. 2
 ELEMENT 2.1: Possesses necessary
knowledge and skills to deliver the
level of compounding required.
 ELEMENT 2.2: Implements a
systematic process of preparing
compounded drug products, both
sterile and non-sterile, in
 accordance with established
standards and guidelines.
 ELEMENT 2.3: Compounds
products in accordance with
recognized standards and
guidelines, and as appropriate to the
practice setting.
 ELEMENT 2.4: Optimizes packaging
and labeling of compounded
products.
Competency Standard No. 3
• ELEMENT 3.1: Counsels
client/patient in a structured and
logical manner.
• ELEMENT 3.2: Tailors care and
counseling according to the needs of
the client/patient.
• ELEMENT 3.3: Utilizes a range of
communication methods to ensure
that counseling is effective.
• ELEMENT 3.4: Collaborates with
the client/patient to positively
impact on adherence.
• ELEMENT 3.5: Refers to other
healthcare providers or support
services, when appropriate.
Competency Standard No. 4
• ELEMENT 4.1: Ensures continuity
of care and safety of
clients/patients.
• ELEMENT 4.2: Contributes in the
management of the client’s/patient’s
disease states.
• ELEMENT 4.3: Engages in health
promotion, education and disease
prevention activities.
Competency Standard No. 5
• ELEMENT 5.1: Manages financial
viability of pharmacy business.
• ELEMENT 5.2: Manages human
resources.
• ELEMENT 5.3: Procures equipment
and resources.
• ELEMENT 5.4: Oversees inventory
management.
• ELEMENT 5.5: Supervises
effectively the execution of
merchandising plan and marketing
strategies.
Manufacturing Pharmacy
(Practice area 5)
1. Identifies appropriately the health
and pharmaceutical needs of the
population as well as the
appropriate interventions to address
them.
2. Supports activities aimed at
protecting and improving the health
and well-being of the population.
3. Participates in policy and strategy
development and implementation.
4. Contributes to the evidence based
on how medicines-related
interventions, programs and policies
improve and protect the health of
the population through academic
and/or pharmacy practice research.
5. Ensures clinical governance and
continuous quality improvement in
service design and delivery.
Competency Standard No. 1
 ELEMENT 1.1: Evaluates relevant,
accurate and comprehensive data to
understand the public health
situation.
 ELEMENT 1.2: Integrates updated,
high quality scientific evidence to
inform medicines-related policy and
program decisions.
Competency Standard No. 2
 ELEMENT 2.1: Engages in activities
that can support and enable the
people to adopt healthier lifestyles.
 ELEMENT 2.2: Participates in
activities that prevent harm towards
the population and community.
Competency Standard No. 3
 ELEMENT 3.1: Recognizes
pharmacyrelated laws and
regulations as legal bases of
pharmacy practice.
 ELEMENT 3.2: Demonstrates
capacity to health policy studies and
investigations.
 ELEMENT 3.3: Establishes strategic
partnerships to advance policies and
strategies for the population and
community.
Competency Standard No. 4
 ELEMENT 4.1: Engages in health,
medicines or pharmacy practice
research.
Competency Standard No. 5
 ELEMENT 5.1: Maintains an
effective and efficient quality
assurance system in conjunction
with stakeholders involved.
Pharmacy Organizations
PHARMACY ORGANIZATION
(Local & International)
When the practicing pharmacists grew in
number, they saw the need to form
societies and organizations to bind
themselves towards attaining the same
goal and objectives for the upliftment of
pharmacy as a profession and to improve
the pharmacy services in the delivery of
better patient care.
The different organizations were
established on international, national, and
local levels. Some organized themselves
based on their field of specialization.
FIP
(FEDERACION INTERCIONALE
PHARMACEUTIQUE)
 It is an international pharmaceutical
federation whose main purpose of
existence is to promote and defend
the interest of the profession world-
wide.
 OBJECTIVE: Development of
pharmacy at the international level
both in the professional and in the
scientific fields and the extension of
the role of the pharmacists in the
field of health care.
FAPA
(FEDERATION OF ASIAN
PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATIONS)
 A professional organization of ASIAN
pharmacists.
 FOUNDED in 1964 , based in
MANILA Philippines
 First general assembly was held in
April 1964 in Manila with Prof. Jose
P.B. Gallardo as the first elected
PRESIDENT of FAPA.
 Dr. Patricio Valenzuela – Secretary
General
PPhA
(PHILIPPINE PHARMACISTS
ASSOCIATION)
 It is national profession organization
of pharmacists in the Philippines.
 Considered as the with which other
associations of pharmacists and
pharmacy students are affiliated.
 Founded in 1920.
 Official Newsletter: THE HYGEIAN
Main objectives of PPhA
1. To encourage to study pharmacy
2. To foster research in Philippine
medicinal plants
3. Stimulate scientific investigations
4. To improve close relationship among
pharmacist.
5. To improve local market for drugs,
chemicals and pharmaceutical
manufacturing in the Philippines.
PACOP
(Philippine Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy)
It is an association of duly government-
recognized colleges of pharmacy in the
Philippines represented by their deans
who are the regular members.
1). Associate members - licensed
pharmacists who are faculty members of
duly recognized colleges of pharmacy
2). Auxiliary members - pharmacy
students
FJCPPhA
(Federation of Junior Chapters of the
PPhA)
 It is composed of pharmacy student
officers from different schools of
duly recognized colleges of
pharmacy.
PSHP
(Philippine Society of Hospital
Pharmacists)
 It is a professional association of
licensed pharmacists working in
government and private hospitals as
hospital pharmacists.
 It was founded in 1962.
 Its official organ is The PSHP
Bulletin.
CMFFI
(Colegio Medico Farmaceutico de
Filipinas, Inc.)
It is a professional organization of doctors
and pharmacists who are members of the
Manila Medical Society and the Manila
Pharmaceutical Society.
DSAP
(Drugstore Association of the
Philippines)
 It is an organization of drugstore
owners or those who manage
drugstores.
CPAP
(Community Pharmacist Association of
the Phil.)
 It is an association of licensed
pharmacists working in private or
chain of community pharmacies.
PAPPI
(Philippine Association of Pharmacists
in Pharmaceutical Industry)
 It is a professional association of
licensed pharmacists working in the
industry or manufacturing firms.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To work for the upliftment of their role
in the field of the pharmaceutical industry.
2. To organize and unite all duly licensed
pharmacists registered with the
Professional Regulation Commission
Board of Pharmacy.
LGP
(Phil. League of Government
Pharmacists)
 It is a professional organization of
licensed pharmacists who are
working in government agencies like
the Department of Health, Food and
Drug Administration, and
government hospitals.
Areas of Pharmacy Practice
The pharmacy profession
Pharmacy is considered a multifaceted
profession. It offers a lot opportunities
for a BS Pharmacy graduate who is
legally qualified to practice depending on
her interest and likes.
Community Pharmacists
They are known as Retail Pharmacist
 The pharmacist may establish her
own drugstore or be employed in an
existing drugstore or chain
drugstore.
 It is practiced by about 85% of
pharmacy graduates who make a
unique hybrid of businessmen and
professionals
Community Pharmacists
EX.
Mercury Drug store
Southstar drug
Watsons
CVS pharmacy
A Community Pharmacist must:
1. have a good people and communication
skill.
2. be comfortable having a high level of
interaction with the general public.
3. be able to manage significant
paperwork and logistical details related to
health insurance issues to make sure
patients get the right care at the right
price.
Responsibilities:
 Work with customers to fill their
prescriptions, explain proper
medication use, and provide clinical
services.
 They are often asked to give
advice on diet, exercise, wellness or
stress management. They also
advice doctors about medication.
 Interpretation of prescription &
dispensing of pharmaceutical
preparations.
 Compounding of medications
based on prescription.
 Give appropriate Patient
counselling
  Pharmacy administration
(inventory, ordering, receiving,
returning of merchandise etc.)
 Monitor the sales and performance
of the drugstore.
 Regularly attend Seminars and
Continuing Professional
Development.
Professional Role in Delivering
Primary Care
1. Move from a product-centered (i.e
supply of medicines) to a patient-
centered role;
2. Shift from business-focused to a
health-focused way of thinking;
3. Integrate into healthcare teams;
4. Collaborate with patients (share
decision making on their health) and the
government;
5. Be responsive to emerging needs and
be proactive, rather than maintaining
status quo and being reactive
Primary Care Services
This provides the first point of contact in
the healthcare system
Primary Care includes general practice,
community pharmacy, dental, and
optometry (eye health) services.
Hospital Pharmacist
 Practice of pharmacy in private and
government-owned hospitals.
 Hospital pharmacists are
responsible for the procurement,
preservation, storage, compounding,
manufacturing, packaging,
controlling, assaying, dispensing
and distribution of medications to
hospitalized and ambulatory
patients.
A Hospital Pharmacist must:
 Need to stay informed about new
medications and therapies so that
you can provide the best care to
patients.
 Have strong attention to detail
skills.
 Be prepared for long hours and
unpredictable schedules.
Responsibilities:
 Provide and Evaluate
Pharmaceutical services.
 Draw a plan for hospital pharmacy
administration.
 Liaison between administrative
authorities and medical Doctors.
 Enforce the policies and
procedures for the recruitment of
adequate and competent staff.
 Develop and maintain an effective
system.
 Participate in and adhere to the
financial plan of the operation for
the hospital.
 The Chief Pharmacist in the
Hospital serves as the secretary of
the Pharmacy Therapeutics
Committee (PTC).
The Pharmacy and
Therapeutics Committee
 They decide which drugs will appear
on the hospital’s drug formulary
Clinical Pharmacist
 Clinical pharmacy is the practice of
pharmacy in a hospital setting,
which is patient-oriented.
 Responsible not only for the safe
and appropriate use of drugs on
patients but also the rational
selection, and control of patient’s
overall drug therapy program.
Industrial Pharmacist
 They are also known as
Manufacturing Pharmacist.
 Involved in providing the highest
standard in drug manufacturing.
It offers opportunities to pharmacists in
industry in the following areas:
A. Marketing and Administration
B. Production
C. Quality control
D. Research and Development
E. Company Pharmacist
Manufacturers Examples
UNILAB
Gsk GlaxoSmithKline
Pascual
Pfizer

A. Marketing and Administration
 Marketing administrators frequently
meet with executives to discuss how
to market a particular product,
service, or brand.
 They go over the budget scenarios
and risk management strategies,
seeking to get the “most bang for
their buck ” out of a marketing
campaign.
 Usually gain between seven an 10
years of experience before entering
the position.
 Usually, these professionals also
earned a master’s degree in
business administration.
B. Production Pharmacists
 Where a pharmacist can work as a
staff or be given a supervisory
position.
 Basically, they are liable in the total
production of drugs from:
Procurement of the raw materials
– Weighing – Mixing – Assay –
Packaging – Dispensing
 Production pharmacist should have
the skills and knowledge in
operating the different machineries
that is use in the production.
 Are liable in maintaining the
cleanliness of the manufacturing
rooms before and after the
production.
C. Quality Control Analyst
 A pharmacist can work as a drug
analyst
 Quality Control is very much
important in pharmaceutical
industry.
They assure that drug:
 Is genuine quality as well as good
nature
 Is physically and chemically pure
 Contains same amount of
ingredients as mentioned on the
label
 Is in such a form that after
administration it is effective
 Have high quality in terms of shelf
life/ stability
 Does not contain toxic impurities
C. R&D Pharmacists
 Research and Development (often
called as R&D) is regarded as the
backbone of the pharmaceutical
industry.
 A pharmacist can work as a
researcher.
 They are also responsible for making
sure that drug labelling is accurate
and meets the requirements of state
and federal laws
Pharmaceutical researchers use their
scientific knowledge to help:
 Develop new medications
 Test new substances
 Evaluate existing products
 And create new dosage forms.
E. Company Pharmacists
 Regulators or Regulatory
Pharmacists
 The pharmacists works as a liaison
of a company to a FDA and in
charge of the registration of
company products.
Wholesale Pharmacist
 Wholesale pharmacy are also called
Distributors
 It offers opportunities for a limited
number of pharmacists.
 Serves as the Middleman between
manufacturer and the retailer.
 Because of legal restrictions, all
wholesale drug firms employ
registered pharmacists in
supervisory capacities
Pharmacy Academe
 Offers excellent opportunities for
pharmacists with advanced degrees
in any of the professional
specialties.
 Expanding enrolment in colleges to
meet the manpower needs of the
future, offers excellent opportunities
for careers in college teaching.
 Academic pharmacists have many
key responsibilities, including
training future pharmacists and
conducting research.
 A pharmacist must consider
obtaining advanced degrees,
certification, and residencies before
being part of the academe.
Pharmacy Journalism
 Phamaceutical journalism offers
rewarding experiences to a limit
number of pharmacists with writing
and editing talent.
 MIMS writer and other
pharmaceutical references.
 Drug literatures