In five years, nearly 300,000 practicing pharmacists will be needed nationwide to serve an aging population, a 30 percent increase compared with 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
To help meet this growing need for pharmacists, McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, has launched AccessPharmacy, an online content solution, which is designed to keep pace with the changing demands of pharmacy education.
The Web-based resource uses a unique curricular-based approach modeled after the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) national guidelines. AccessPharmacy leverages the content of the industry's most trusted pharmacy resources, including Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 6th edition; Pharmacotherapy Casebook, 6th edition; Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 11th edition; Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 9th edition, and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th edition. In addition, the editors of Goodman & Gilman's will provide monthly updates to AccessPharmacy.
To provide pharmacy students with an interactive, practical and real-world learning experience, AccessPharmacy offers case-based learning through more than 150 drug therapy cases with related Q&As as well as care plans that students can complete and submit to faculty for review and critique. With this new McGraw-Hill reference, students, depending on their specific learning needs, can select from more than 500 core curriculum topics, browse by organ system, review textbooks online or search the entire Web-based resource.