The UI College of Pharmacy and Carver College of Medicine financially support these statewide clinics, ensuring that pharmacists “have an opportunity to directly shape the education of tomorrow’s doctors, and promote the safe and effective use of medications in our patients,” says Michael E. Ernst, a pharmacist and College of Pharmacy faculty member at UI Hospitals & Clinics, one of the six aforementioned sites. The arrangement also ensures that patients in Iowa and beyond continue to benefit from having clinical pharmacists on their family medicine care team along with their doctors, nurses, and others.
Read more in a recent Iowa Now article, or in the latest HawkScripts magazine.