The Pharmaceutical Care Room, which depends on the Dean’s office and the departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Care, has been renovated by the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences.

This space is a training environment that emulates a Pharmacy in which students develop professional skills aimed at good professional practice in a context similar to the one they will encounter once they enter the labour market.

By confronting students with situations similar to those they will encounter in their normal professional practice, they work on and develop clinical reasoning, decision-making, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

M. Vicenta Mestre, Principal of the Universitat de València; Hortensia Rico, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences; Juan Vicente Climent, Manager of the University; Professor Marisa Ferrándiz, main promoter of the project; and Vicente Colomer, Secretary of the Muy Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Valencia, were accompanied by the deans of the Faculties of Social Sciences and Chemistry, as well as representatives of the companies collaborating in the project, APOTHEKA and COFARES. In addition, many professors of the Faculty did not want to miss how students make use of the new facilities.

The Pharmaceutical Care Room was opened in the basement of the Faculty in 2011-2012. It immediately began to host its first teaching activities; however, after more than 10 years of teaching activity, it had become obsolete and needed to be updated to the new demands and trends in the sector.

The renovation has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the Faculty with the Office of the Vice-Principal for Economics and Infrastructures and the companies APOTHEKA and COFARES. The former, specialised in the design and renovation of community pharmacies, has supported the design of this new space, as well as financing part of the furniture. In addition, the pharmaceutical distribution company COFARES has supplied a large part of the parapharmacy material for the displays.