Pharmacogenetics and its Role Understanding by Future Pharmacists: Gender Specificity
Abstract
Pharmacogenetics is one of the areas of genetics, the ground of modern personalized medicine and an educational discipline (or its part) for specialists training in different fields of pharmacy. With the aim of awareness studying in the area of pharmacogenetics, the students questioning, specializing in pharmacy, has been carried out for the first time in Ukraine. It has been stated that, more than70% of questioned got the information about pharmacogenetics in University for the first time. However, only more than one-third of respondents (37.7% males and 43.9% females) correctly understand the idea of this discipline. About half of questioned students thought that, pharmacocorrection of hereditary diseases is impossible, while 16.7 % of males and 13.4 % of females did not have a definite opinion as to this question. Thus, the awareness increasing of future pharmacists, as a link between a physician and a patient, about genetic aspects of pharmococorrection is an important problem that requires an immediate reaction.
About the Authors
M. N. Kobets
National University of Pharmacy
Ukraine
Ukraine
Kharkov
O. V. Filiptsova
National University of Pharmacy
Ukraine
Ukraine
Kharkov
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Kobets M.N., Filiptsova O.V. Pharmacogenetics and its Role Understanding by Future Pharmacists: Gender Specificity. Yakut Medical Journal. 2014;(2):76-78.
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