PHARMACISTS SATISFACTION WITH THEIR PHARMACY EDUCATION - WERE THEY PREPARED FOR OBRA-90

On January 1, 1993, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBR A-90) went into effect. This law mandates that pharmacists counsel pat ients and perform prospective drug utilization review. The question to be answered was: Are pharmacy schools properly preparing their studen ts to perform according to the OBRA-90 guidelines? A questionnaire was mailed to 665 recent graduates of seven pharmacy schools around the c ountry. A total of 303 individuals returned the questionnaire for a 45 .6 percent response rate. MANOVA techniques were utilized to analyzed the data. Results indicated that recent graduates were generally satis fied that their pharmacy education prepared them to meet OBRA-90 couns eling and drug use review requirements. Pharmacists were most satisfie d with their education in preparing them to address problems relating to duplicative therapies and least satisfied with their knowledge of s elf-monitoring techniques. This study was an attempt to evaluate recen t graduates opinions about their pharmacy education with respect to th eir practice.