Pharmacy participation in pharmaceutical representative displays in a large teaching hospital.

The Department of Pharmacy in a 1200-bed private teaching hospital was seeking additional ways to inform the medical staff of pharmaceutical services and decided to participate as an exhibitor in an established pharmaceutical representative display. The format for the display consisted of three different exhibitors twice weekly in a centrally located area with catering provided. Topics presented by the Pharmacy Department, bi-monthly, included patient medication teaching sheets, drug information services, drug use evaluation results, Additive Room services, formulary content and use, as well as kinetics.