Análise da educação continuada dos farmacêuticos atuantes em drogarias e laboratórios de análises clínicas nas cidades de Inhumas e Trindade/Go

Abstract

Continuing education is of paramount importance to the training of professionals, developing expertise in the area of expertise and professional skills. Keep-to date is a way to track the changes in society and technology. This article aims to analyze the existence and level of continuing education of active pharmacists in drugstores and clinical laboratories in the cities of Inhumas and Trindade. For this analysis was performed a field study in which participants who agreed to participate completed a semi structured questionnaire in order to identify and analyze the profile of pharmaceuticals , list the postgraduate lato sensu and stricto sensu and verify the same opinion about the importance of continuing education . In addition to showing the importance to the pharmacist to be an updating, and the perspectives and factors that hinder this update. The research consisted of interviews with 52 pharmacists who worked in the cities of Trindade and Inhumas of both genders. Identified-that most pharmacists are female ( 77 % ) , shows that there are differences in ages between the active pharmaceutical for each region, and to Trindade, a greater number of pharmacists for the age group 20 to 35 years old than Inhumas and most graduated from private institutions . Noted-that Inhumas active pharmacists have graduate level higher than for those who work in Trindade. In addition to specifying some factors that hinder the continuing education, and noted that pharmacists recognize that continuing education is required to keep updated for personal growth and professional.