VetCE on Demand: Navigating the Muddy Waters of Pharmacy - Improving Outcomes and Reducing Errors

Course overview

There is a growing need for veterinarians to partner with community pharmacists to maximize patient health and client satisfaction. Both professions want the best possible outcome for patients while fulfilling their legal and ethical professional duties. Because community pharmacists are not trained in veterinary pharmacology as part of their core education, problems can arise when there are large differences in dosage or side effects of the same drug in animals and humans. In this course a practicing private practice veterinarian and a licensed pharmacist discuss the current state of pharmacy issues. It looks at common sources of error, steps that veterinarians can take to prevent these errors, and techniques for building successful working relationships with community pharmacists.