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KMID : 0353019690060010127
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1969 Volume.6 No. 1 p.127 ~ p.134
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A Study of Supply and Demand for Pharmacits in Korean
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to provide data required for the formations of a pharmacist manpower planning, as a part of the medical manpower planning.
As the result of surveys conducted during the period of May 1 to July 20, 1968 on a total of 10,116 pharmacists regularly registered in 1968, the following conclusion has been reached:
1. The number of pharmacists increased at a sharp annual rate recently inasmuch as the number of licensed pharmacists increased as expensively as 52 per cent during the five-year period of 1961 to 1965. The current trend of their number is expected to persist in the future because the number of pharmacist educational institutions has increased to 14 since the outback of the Korean war(in the 1950´s)
2. the scope of the employment of pharmacists is extremely limited inasmuch as 69.8 per cent all pharmacists are engaged in the retail business of pharmaceuticals.
3. In terms of their areas of work, an overwhelming majority or 80.1 per cent of them are working in urban areas including Seoul.
Improvement Plan:
a. In order to keep the number of new graduate pharmacists at an appropriate level, the number of colleges of pharmacy and their graduates should be reduced gradually year after year.
b. Due to their limited scope of employment as is clear from 69.8 per cent of them engaged in the retail business of pharmaceuticals, their supply will possibly surpass their demand in the limited scope of occupation. The curricula of colleges of pharmacy should be modified so that more pharmacists may work in public health projects, etc.
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