Objective: Aim of the study was to introduce knowledge and attitudes of physicians in terms of clinical pharmacy services having substantial contributions to economics and community health and to call attention to clinical pharmacy at the hospitals.

Material and Method: A questionnaire having 25 questions was applied on faculty members working at the clinical departments of the School of Medicine, Kocaeli University on 26th of February 2007. Then the questoinnaire was applied on 2nd of March 2007 for the physicians were not accessible at the first time.

Results: In total 141 physicians of 487 (%28,95) who were accessible. Being in outpatient services or inpatient visitings was the factor making difficult to access them. Of 141 physicians fiftyone (% 36,2) were women and ninety (% 63,8) were men. Eightyfour (%59,6) applicants were research assistants. Fifteen (%10,8) had administrative duties on the date when this research was done. Average service year of pyhsicians as faculty member was 6,39 ± 6,82 (min 2 months, max 30 years). For the hypothesis of adequate level of drug information, 56 physicians (% 40) answered as indecisive. Only one applicant has stated that she was assigned on a commision dealing with drugs. Textbooks were described as the most preferential drug references by physicians (n=122).

Conclusion: Regarding drug knowledge physicians are erratic in terms of being sufficent. Generally, they have thought that clinical pharmacists would be efficient in hospitilized services. However they have displayed erratic attitude in terms of employing clinical pharmacists. Role of clinical pharmacists at the hospitals must be better explained. For this reason, schools providing clinical pharmacy lectures can inform physicians and point to necessary works to be done by coordination of pharmacy associations and human resource planning units of the hospitals.

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