Pharmacy

The Department of Pharmacy of Tianjin Medical University General Hospital was established in 1946, at the very beginning of the hospital’s establishment. After 70 years of development, it has now become a platform department serving the entire hospital and integrating clinical services, scientific research, teaching and management. The Department of Pharmacy currently consists of the outpatient pharmacy, emergency pharmacy, inpatient pharmacy, intravenous drug preparation center, Chinese and Western medicine preparation room, drug testing room, drug warehouse, clinical pharmacy, drug and toxic-substance testing center and other departments. In addition to ensuring such work as the procurement, quality management, dispensing, intravenous drug preparation and compounding of in-house preparations required for clinical practice, the Department of Pharmacy currently provides clinical pharmacy technical services such as optimization of clinical treatment plans, pharmaceutical care and medication consultation, as well as individualized precision pharmacy services such as therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacogenomic sequencing. At the same time, closely integrating with clinical practice, it conducts pharmaceutical research in fields such as the science of traditional Chinese medicine formulas, clinical pharmacy, precision pharmacy, pharmacy informatics and pharmacoeconomics.

The Department of Pharmacy attaches importance to talent cultivation and team building. It currently has 175 permanent employees; personnel with a bachelor’s degree or higher account for 76.6%, including 3 doctoral degree holders and 34 master’s degree holders, as well as 6 chief pharmacists, 9 deputy chief pharmacists and 58 pharmacists-in-charge. The Department of Pharmacy is currently a National Clinical Pharmacist Training Base, a unit involved in establishing the Tianjin Drug and Toxic-Substance Testing Center, and a unit whose personnel serve as Vice Chair of the Tianjin Pharmaceutical Association, Chair of the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Research Professional Committee of the Tianjin Pharmacological Society, Chair of the Intravenous Drug Preparation Professional Committee of the Tianjin Pharmaceutical Association, Deputy Chair of the Hospital Pharmacy Professional Committee of the Tianjin Pharmaceutical Association, Deputy Chair of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Management Professional Committee of the Tianjin Hospital Association, and Deputy Chair of the Youth Pharmacy Professional Committee of the Tianjin Pharmaceutical Association. The department currently has 2 supervisors of master’s students at Tianjin Medical University and undertakes the teaching, clinical practice supervision and graduation thesis guidance of master’s students in pharmacy at Tianjin Medical University, undergraduate students in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy at Tianjin Medical University, and students in higher and secondary specialized programs at Tianjin Medical College. Several members of the department serve as deputy editors-in-chief and editorial board members of pharmacy journals and textbooks, and the department has considerable academic influence in the hospital pharmacy community in Tianjin and throughout China. Over the past five years, it has led 6 scientific research projects at the national and provincial/departmental levels; over the past 3 years, it has published 53 papers, including 5 SCI papers, and has obtained 3 Chinese invention patents.

Distinctive Features and Innovative Development of the Department under the New Medical Reform

Precision pharmacy services combining pharmaceutical research and clinical practice

Clinical pharmacy services “with the patient at the center and rational medication use at the core”

Application of automated information technology to intravenous drug preparation

Development of automated information for drug dispensing and extension of pharmaceutical services

Using the advantages of the hospital’s disciplines, personnel and laboratory platforms to carry out forensic medical appraisal

A comprehensive and diverse range of dosage forms for in-house preparations

Organizational Structure of the Department of Pharmacy