Questionnaire Survey on Career Formation, Qualifications Acquisition, and Research Activities of Hospital Pharmacists at Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital / 日本農村医学会雑誌

Pharmacists are required to work as specialists, but few studies have investigated the career paths available to certified/specialist pharmacists. Therefore, we surveyed hospital pharmacists on career formation, qualifications acquisition, and research activities. We administered an anonymous questionnaire using Google Forms to all 37 pharmacists at Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital and all responded. Responses to career path questions were compared between the current job and a job in the future. For the current job, there were more responses for acquiring a wide range of experience, knowledge, and skills and fewer responses for acquiring experience, knowledge, and skills in a specialized field and for acquiring certified/specialist pharmacist qualifications. This suggests that pharmacists intend to improve their expertise after acquiring a wide range of experience, knowledge, and skills. A high percentage of respondents cited interest in specialized fields as a reason to become qualified as a certified/specialist pharmacist. This suggests that interest in specialized fields is the greatest incentive to acquire further qualifications. In regard to research activity, items on daily workload, making time for research, and cooperation with research team members were often selected as problems. This suggests that time management and scheduling are important issues.

Physical Therapy for Compound Knee Ligament Injury After Simultaneous Reconstruction of Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligaments / 日本農村医学会雑誌

We performed physical therapy on a patient who had undergone simultaneous reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) for compound knee ligament injury. The physical therapy program was designed based on Tooyama's concept published in 1996 and our own regimens for postoperative therapy for separate ACL and PCL reconstructions.The results of our physical therapy were as follows: In four months after the surgery, the range of knee motion had been fully recovered. In 16 months postoperatively, the knee ligament had become stable. Knee extention strength had been restored 87% and its flexion strength 103%. The functional ability test found that knee performance was good.Worthy of note were the following three main features of this physical therapy: (1) To minimize stress on ligament until the minimum recovery level of recovery is expected after reconstruction, muscular workout to make quadriceps and hamstrings contracted simultaneiusly was performed so as not to induce contractions of only hamstrings; (2) We kept the chief physician posted on the recovery status of the knee motion range since mobilized arthroscopy might have been required because of knee contracture; (3) Knee coodination training was performed to enhance knee functional ability.