Developing a Liaison Role for Pharmacists in a Family Medicine Clinic

Objective:To develop a pharmacist liaison service in a family medicine teaching clinic in order to optimize and facilitate community pharmacists' interventions.Target groups:Community pharmacists involved in the care of patients registered at the family medicine clinic (FMC) of Cite de la Sante de Laval and clinical pharmacists working at this clinic.Activities:The FMC is a medical teaching clinic located in a general care hospital. The FMC operates as a multidisciplinary group of GPs, nurses and pharmacists providing care to enlisted patients. Due to their clinical experience, proximity to the medical team and direct access to FMC patients' charts, FMC pharmacists (FMC-PH) are in a key position to support community pharmacists (COM-PH) in order to optimize the quality of pharmaceutical care dispensed to their common patients. The liaison pharmacist service was created within a larger study of COM-PH interventions and their impact on medication when receiving a doctor request for medication profile analys...