UAlberta student project on pharmacy prescription powers leads to top-three finish in Health Council of Canada contest.
(Edmonton) Two University of Alberta students scored top marks from the Health Council of Canada for advocating the health-care benefits of pharmacists prescribing medication.
Kathryn Reid and Joshua Plante, fourth-year students in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, placed third in the team category for the Health Council of Canada's Health Innovation Challenge. More than 100 post-secondary students from across Canada participated in the challenge after being asked to identify innovative practices in Canadian health care and explain how they could be applied in the rest of the country.
The U of A duo wrote about the benefits of giving pharmacists the ability to prescribe medication. It's a policy that Alberta adopted in 2007, and one Reid says could help improve health-care access across the country.
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