In April 2006, CSHP launched an advocacy campaign highlighting the fact that hospital pharmacists, who account for only about 15% of practising pharmacists in Canada, provide roughly 50% of practical education experiences for pharmacist students. In Canada in 2006, academic hospital placements ranged from 4 to 12 weeks in duration over a students undergraduate education, and the pressure on hospitals and hospital pharmacist preceptors to provide experiential education continues to expand.
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