ABSTRACT
Introduction@#Now days in case of two countries’ cooperation has been developing day by day, diversified activities such as collaboration and exchanging experience has been performing in health sector, medical science, besides pharmacology.@*Methods@#This study aimed to compare two countries’ pharmacist’s acquirements and roles and provide information to Mongolian Pharmaceutical Universities and pharmacist students. @*Pharmaceutical: Statistics @#</br> Population:</br> - 3 million in Mongolia</br> - 5 million in Korea</br> Number of pharmacists:</br> - 1726 (by 2016) in Mongolia </br> - 33182 (by 2016) in Korea</br> Number of Pharmaceutical Universities </br> - 7 universities, including 1 public and 6 private in Mongolia</br> - 34 universities, including 10 public and 25 private in Korea@*Results@#As a result of this study, pharmacist’s acquirements, role and working sectors of pharmacists in two countries are ordinarily same. There are some different sides below: </br> • Period of pharmacist’s preparatory training is 5 years at university in Mongolia and 2+4 years in Korea. </br> • Pharmaceutical Universities of Mongolia trains 2 specialists: pharmacist (bachelor`s degree) and pharmacist (diplom`s degree); College of Pharmacy of Korea trains pharmacist, pharmacist of traditional medicine and pharmaceutical engineering. </br> • For a role of business, in Mongolia pharmacist (diplom`s degree) is a separate specialist trained with diploma, whereas in Korea, if pharmacist gets a license, they have a right to compound a medicine legally, but commonly in pharmaceutical industry. </br> • As for sector, pharmacists are trained in many specializes, such as general pharmacist, clinical pharmacist, military pharmacist, nuclear pharmacist, cancer pharmacist and vet pharmacist. </br> • Special legal professional pharmacists work in Korea, such as governmental organization’s pharmacist, civil service pharmacist and public organization’s pharmacist. </br> • No person, other than pharmacists or oriental pharmacists may dispense drugs, and pharmacists or oriental pharmacists shall dispense drugs within the limit of the license, respectively: However, students who major in pharmacy at college may dispense drugs within the limits prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.