By

• Miriam Diaz-Gilbert MEd Assistant Director, Writing Center Instructor, English, University of Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

This text focuses on developing, improving, enhancing, and mastering the skills needed to communicate clearly and effectively in any pharmacy practice setting, including authentic medical and pharmacy vocabulary, pronunciation, listening comprehension, authentic pharmacist-patient dialogues, idiomatic language, and pharmacy writing. Chapters cover all the major body systems and offer a variety of interactive exercises and instruction to help readers master essential communication skills. Each chapter begins with a quick pre-assessment quiz and ends with a post-asssessment quiz.

A companion Website will include the fully searchable text, electronic flash cards, and audio exercises such as pronunciation, dictation, and pharmacist-patient dialogues.

Key Features

• Audio Exercises on the accompanying Website include Listening and Understanding Pharmacist/Patient Conversations and Dialogs
• Pharmacy Documentation Writing chapter introduces language and vocabulary typically found in pharmacy documentation.
• Patient Assessment Forms, SOAP notes, Case Studies and Pharmaceutical Care plans offer tools to put knowledge and content into practice.