News About: Pharm. Affairs
KCUE assessment of 20 pharmacy colleges all acceptable.
The Korea Council for University Education (KCUE) announced on Feb. 20 that the evaluation of 20 colleges of pharmacy on the consolidated university administration and scientific educational performances passed all cr...
Foreign drug companies puzzled over short shelf life drugs.
A lot of drugs with short shelf lives gave a mounting business burden in the distribution to the retail pharmacies, especially for the expensive drugs supplied by foreign multinational drug corporations in Korea.
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Evening service charges raised a lot of confusion in pharmacies.
The time for the evening service charges was advanced about 2 hours from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the weekday and from 3 p.m. to 1 p.m on Saturday, the guideline of which has been applied by very few pharmacies. Instead, o...
Pharmacy counted 28% of total 72,921 healthcare institutions.
As of the end of 2005 there are 72,921 Korean healthcare units, which was 2,527 more increase (3.59%) from the previous year according to a report "Status of healthcare institutions in 2005" announced on Feb. 8.
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KPA to warn illegal sales promotional package plans.
Some of local pharmaceutical industries who also run a beverage business were found to practise illegal marketing promotional activities as a compensational package of pushing their pharmaceuticals with incentive beve...
1,401 applicants to pass national pharmacist qualification examination.
The total 1,401 applicants have passed the 57th national pharmacist qualification examination conducted on Jan. 19, 2006, showing about 86.5% out of the total 1,619 applicants according to the announcement of National...
Number of practicing pharmacists declined.
During the past 10 years number of pharmacists in practice declined while other rest rose according to the analysis on 10 year (1995-2005) annual report status to the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA). Every ...
Substituted dispensing possible even for drugs of substitution ban.
A substituted dispensing at pharmacies is possible even for the drug of "No substitution" prescribed by physicians when any appropriate clinical reasons are described on the sheet.
Recently the MOHW interpreted off...
2 hours earlier for evening service charges from February.
Taking effect from coming February, the special evening service charges seems to be advanced with 2 hours, namely, applying it from 6:00 p.m instead of the current 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and 1:00 p.m. instead of 3:00 p...
Pharmacist average monthly wage at 2.3 million won for 182 hours work.
The pharmacist received about 2.3 million won on average per month for 182 hours of works, indicating higher rates for working hours than other jobs. Besides, it showed no wage differences between the male and female...
