Clinical Pharmacologists

[CanPharm]

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I was wondering if anyone has heard of a clinical pharmacologist or seen a clinical pharmacologist consult at their hospital?
I recently found out that clinical pharmacologists are MD's who are specialized in pharmacotherapy, kinetics, optimization of therapy etc. Hmmm..., kind of reminds me of clinical pharmacy! I looked further into this and realized that pharmacy has really "turfed" onto this specialty. I have never seen a clinical pharmacologist myself and so I don't really know what their role is in a clinical, ie. hospital, setting.
If anyone is interested, I found this interesting article comparing the two.

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND CLINICAL PHARMACY: COMPETITION OR COLLABORATION?
http://www.terapeutica.ro/Issues/2009/Number1/3.SoA_prof_Mikov.pdf

 

[BrownSound]

In my experience, I've seen a clinical pharmacologist once. She was asked to come in because the patient had an allergic reaction and the team wanted to figure out exactly which drug it was.

She basically asked typical question the pharmacist would ask, but the only difference was she had more authority to switch/discontinue medications without needing an MD's co-signature. The team did ask for a 'clinical pharmacology' consult though.

I think because clinical pharmacology is such a small sub-specialty (or looks like it), and because pharmacists' are gaining prescriptive authority/larger scope of practice around the globe, perhaps in the future pharmacists would be asked for consultations (and thus have more weight in what goes on with the drug therapy).

 

[PharMed2016]

In my experience, I've seen a clinical pharmacologist once. She was asked to come in because the patient had an allergic reaction and the team wanted to figure out exactly which drug it was.

She basically asked typical question the pharmacist would ask, but the only difference was she had more authority to switch/discontinue medications without needing an MD's co-signature. The team did ask for a 'clinical pharmacology' consult though.

I think because clinical pharmacology is such a small sub-specialty (or looks like it), and because pharmacists' are gaining prescriptive authority/larger scope of practice around the globe, perhaps in the future pharmacists would be asked for consultations (and thus have more weight in what goes on with the drug therapy).

I thought clinical pharmacologist were Ph.Ds but they sound like they could be MDs.

 

[bigpharmD]

It used to be popular in the 70's and maybe 80s. There are still some around but it fell by the wayside as clinical pharmacists began to catch on.