Pharmacy Department

The Department of Pharmacy of Tianjin First Central Hospital is a comprehensive discipline integrating the supply, production, management, application, scientific research and teaching of drugs. It is a national outstanding pharmacy department selected by the Chinese Hospital Management Society. The Department of Pharmacy serves as the director unit of the Pharmacy Quality Control Center of Tianjin Hospital, the director unit of the Clinical Pharmacy Branch of Tianjin Medical Association, the director unit of the Pharmaceutical Management Professional Committee of Tianjin Hospital Association, the Tianjin Branch Center of the National Antimicrobial Drug Monitoring Network, the Tianjin Branch Center of the Clinical Safe Medication Monitoring Network of the Ministry of Health, the Tianjin Branch Center of the Prescription Review and Monitoring Network of the Ministry of Health, the China Central Group Network Hospital of the International Rational Drug Use Network, the sponsor unit of the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Research Committee of the Chinese Pharmacological Society, and the sponsor unit of the Clinical Pharmacy Branch of the Tianjin Medical Association. It is a unit of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Drug-borne Disease Alliance, a governing unit of the China Antithrombotic Drug Therapy Alliance, a initiator of the Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Research Committee of the Chinese Pharmacological Society, and one of the initiators of the Clinical Research Management Professional Committee of the Tianjin Hospital Association. During the era of drug shortages around the 1970s, pharmacists developed a number of in-hospital preparations with proven efficacy, such as pharyngitis syrup. After that, our hospital’s pharmaceutical preparations developed drugs with very significant effects such as Shujinjieli Capsules, which were very popular among patients and played the role of pharmacists.In the early 1990s, the Department of Pharmacy began to try to transform pharmaceutical services and began to practice patient-centered pharmaceutical services. Pharmacists began to participate in medical rounds, carry out blood drug concentration monitoring, genetic testing, etc., to provide scientific basis for clinical drug treatment. In 2007, our hospital became a pilot unit for the clinical pharmacist system of the Ministry of Health, and gradually implemented a comprehensive rational drug use management model including pharmaceutical monitoring, prescription/doctor order review, pharmacist consultation, multidisciplinary specialist clinic (MDT), and antimicrobial prescription review project (ASP). In 2006, our hospital became one of the first batch of clinical pharmacist training bases of the National Health Commission. In 2013, it was approved as a clinical pharmacist training base of the National Health Commission (one of 13 teacher bases in the country), cultivating talents for the country. The Department of Pharmacy consists of three secondary departments: Drug Management Department, Clinical Pharmacy Department, and Intravenous Drug Centralized Dispensing Center. The Drug Management Department is responsible for the dispensing of Chinese and Western medicines (outpatient, emergency, and inpatient departments), preparations, drug testing, and Chinese and Western medicine libraries; the Clinical Pharmacy Department is responsible for the tasks of clinical pharmacists (National Health and Family Planning Commission Clinical Pharmacist Training Base and National Health and Family Planning Commission Clinical Pharmacist Teacher Training Base), therapeutic drug monitoring, individualized genetic testing and diagnosis, report interpretation information library, and pharmaceutical information;The work of the intravenous centralized dispensing center includes medical order review, drug dispensing and drug mixing. At the same time, the Department of Pharmacy is also responsible for the work of the national clinical drug trial agency. The Department of Pharmacy continues to introduce high-level and highly educated talents, and an academic team with Director Zhang Yi as the subject leader has been initially formed. Team members have their own unique research directions and collaborate to innovate, forming a diversified innovation team. As of 2021, the Department of Pharmacy has a total of 139 pharmaceutical professional and technical personnel, accounting for 6% of the professional and technical personnel in the hospital. Among them, 27 (20%) have senior professional titles, 64 (46%) have intermediate professional titles, and 43 (31%) have junior professional titles. Approximately 84% of the pharmacist team has a bachelor's degree or above, including 28 masters (20%) and 9 doctors (6%).There are 3 master's tutors at Tianjin Medical University, 3 part-time professors at Tianjin Medical University, and 2 master's tutors at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They are responsible for internships, apprenticeships, and graduation thesis writing guidance for students at Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin Armed Police Medical College, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Tianjin Higher Medical College. They also undertake teaching tasks for undergraduates and junior college students in Tianjin Medical University School of Pharmacy, Nankai University School of Pharmacy, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Tianjin Medical College. Many people serve as editorial board members and review experts for magazines such as "Annals of Pharmacotherapy", "American Journal of Health System Pharmacy" Chinese version, "Practical Drugs and Clinics", "Hospital Drug Evaluation and Analysis", "Journal of Medical Science·Pharmaceutical Special Issue", "Southern Pharmacy", "Chinese Journal of Hospital Pharmacy", "Journal of Clinical Rational Drug Use", "Chinese Journal of Practicing Pharmacists", "Journal of Drug Evaluation", "Journal of Adverse Drug Reactions", "Tianjin Pharmacy" and other magazines. Scientific management is the foundation, and discipline construction and development are the ongoing goals of the Department of Pharmacy.While educating people, the Department of Pharmacy actively develops its own disciplines and has published 7 SCI papers and 27 Chinese and core journal papers in the past two years. It has been approved for 2 National Natural Science Youth Fund projects, 4 National Health Commission bureau-level scientific research projects, 2 Science and Technology Commission projects, and 6 horizontal projects. The Department of Pharmacy has always been adhering to the hospital's philosophy of "entrusting life, quality first" and working hard, actively implementing relevant national laws and regulations, ensuring drug quality, maintaining patient medication safety, carrying out hospital pharmacy work that is patient-centered and with rational drug use as the core, and is committed to improving the quality of medical services and providing patients with safe, timely, personalized and humanized services.