Pharmacists often advise patients on the use of over-the counter (OTC) medications, including homeopathics. Yet, little is known about student pharmacist education about homeopathy. The objectives of this study were to:
- describe homeopathic topics being taught in pharmacy schools,
- evaluate faculty views about pharmacists’ roles in counseling patients about homeopathic products.
An explanatory sequential mixed methods approach was used. Online surveys were distributed to 3,300 pharmacy practice faculty members representing all schools accredited in the US. Frequencies were calculated to describe faculty characteristics and their responses. Moreover, 18 interviews of faculty involved with teaching homeopathy were conducted to learn about homeopathy teaching and expectations about roles of pharmacists in counseling patients.
Survey data were collected from 365 respondents. Over half (84 of 137) of the responding pharmacy schools reported teaching
homeopathy to pharmacy students. In addition, the responses from most of the interviewed faculty were summarized into two themes
which emphasized that pharmacists should be knowledgeable and able to counsel patients effectively to ensure they benefit from
taking homeopathic products.
The authors concluded that over half of US pharmacy schools are teaching students about homeopathy topics. Further, there was support for pharmacists being able to counsel effectively about homeopathic products.
Oh, dear!
The sampling method of “3,300 pharmacy practice faculty members representing all schools accredited in the US” seems nonsensical. It means, if I understand it correctly, that some schools will be represented multiple times, while others are not represented at all. The response rate (~11%) is dismal which means that the data allow no generalisable conclusion whatsoever.
If we forget about these fatal flaws for just a minute and take the findings of the survey seriously, we are perhaps surprised that over half of the schools teach homeopathy. This fact in itself might, however, not necessarily be a bad thing. The students could simply learn that (and why) homeopathy is an obsolete therapy. What makes me shudder is this statement: “pharmacists should be knowledgeable and able to counsel patients effectively to ensure they benefit from taking homeopathic products”.
How can you teach students to counsel patients in such a way that they benefit from an ineffective therapy?, I wonder.
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And who is behind all this? Answer: The homeopathy mafia. Each gang gets their share of the profit. And to get the whole thing going one needs to know how to do the PR.
Boiron just now sent out invitations to their latest quack PR instruction course.
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