Science Shop for Medicines

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Science Shop for Medicines

• 20 years experience with
• patient oriented research

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Evelyn Schaafsma MSc. PharmD. Director of the
Science Shop for Medicines University of
Groningen The Netherlands wewi_at_farm.rug.nl www.fa
rm.rug.nl/wewi
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Outline

• Science Shop for Medicines Groningen
• 20 years experiences 1979-1999
• interaction society and university
• trends
• international cooperation?

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There are 2 Science Shopsfor Medicines

• At Schools of Pharmacy
• In the Netherlands
• University of Utrecht
• University of Groningen

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Method

• Organization Question or problem
• Science Shop staff Project proposal
• Student Research
• Pharmacy staff Supervision or advice
• Science Shop Project management, supervision and
  editing final report

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Benefits

• Organizations Independent research of good
  quality at low price
• Students Apply theory to practice in own
  project
• University Detecting unexplored research areas

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Who came to the Science Shop and what did they
ask?
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Science Shop for Medicines Groningen 1979-1999

• 822 Questions
• 165 Projects (20 of total amount)

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Science Shop for Medicines Groningen 1979-1999

• Clients
• Patient groups
• Health care workers
• Third world organizations

• Targeting
• Chronic patients
• Women
• Developing countries

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Adverse effects has always been an import topic
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Top 3 of questions by types of medicines

• Hormones
• Drugs in general
• Psychotropics

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Detecting unexplored research areas Third
World

• Several student
• projects on production
• of drugs in third world
• ?
• Resulting in a PhD
• project on production
• and storage of tablets

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Detecting unexplored research areas Pregnancy

• Student projects (80s)
• ?
• PhD project (90s)
• ?
• Major research area in
• Social Pharmacy
• department (today)

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Trends 1979-1999

• Third world projects
• major area in 80s ? few today
• Womens Health
• pregnancy ? also pediatrics
• contraception ? infertility treatments

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Trends 1979-1999

• Any information?
• independent information of good quality
• New theme Ethnicity drug use
• for example patient education to migrants

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International cooperation?

• Exchange research methods
• migrants, DES
• Cooperation in research in order to improve
  results
• Low back pain in pregnancy

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Science Shop for medicines Collecting
independent information on drugs
for non-profit organizations who do not have
the resources to do research themselves!
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Organizations

• Benefits
• Good research at low price
• Independent source

• Constraints
• Takes time

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Students

• Benefits
• Apply theory lt--gt practice
• Meeting with future clients collegues
• Responsible for own project

• Constraints
• Extra time energy effort

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University

• Benefits
• Detect unexplored research areas
• Low price
• Needs public

• Constraints
• Hard science lt-gt soft science
• Money