FACULTY
- Department
- Department of Pharmacy
- Field of Study
- Medical Pharmacy
- Responsible Subjects
History
Graduate School/University, etc.
1981 Graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University
Why I Became a Researcher
My parents as well as my aunt and uncle opened a pharmacy, and there were many pharmacists around me. As a family pharmacy, they were busy working in service of the health of the local community, and seeing this up close and growing up with this greatly affected me and is why I became a pharmacist. In my childhood, the hospital emergency system had yet to be firmly established, and since it was a time where there were no drug stores that were open until midnight like there are now, I grew up seeing my parents dealing with sick people and their families even at night, and this made me also want to contribute to society as a pharmacist. I’ve always been good at science since I was in elementary school, and after entering high school, I really enjoyed learning chemistry and biology, and I was interested in scientific ideas, observations, and experiments. After entering university, I remember learning about how to think about things from an even deeper pharmacological point of view, conducting research, and having fun learning a wide range of expert knowledge on advanced pharmacy every day. After graduation, one of the paths before me was to work at my family’s pharmacy, but I wanted to contribute to the community as a pharmacist for even more people, so I found a job at a local public hospital and chose the path of a hospital pharmacist.
Message to Students
Message to Students
After graduating from university, I worked as a hospital pharmacist for 37 years. For those of you who are aiming to be pharmacists, how much do you know about hospital pharmacists? While I was working in a hospital, I handled a workplace visit from high school students and visits from trainees in other professions, but when I asked the question, “What do you think hospital pharmacists are doing?” unfortunately, few students were aware of any other duties except for “dispensing.” However, since pharmacists began to be placed in each ward and in outpatient departments at many hospitals from around 2012, we gradually began to see numerous comments of high praise for pharmacists in the “patient satisfaction surveys” given by inpatients and outpatients. In the past, doctors and nurses were the only occupations that received high praise, but now pharmacists are also trusted by patients as specialists in medicine, and they play active roles as healthcare professionals and receive high praise. In hospital wards and outpatient departments, doctors propose prescriptions and contribute to the proper use of drugs, such as discovering side effects, and they attend to medical treatment in teams with other occupations. The fact that pharmacists stay close to patients and contribute to drug treatments has consequently made being a pharmacist worthwhile. For hospital pharmacists that work within teams, along with the necessary skill of knowledge, communication skills are indispensable.