Assessing the perceptions of pharmacists working in Lebanese hospitals on the continuing education preferences.

Background: Continuing education (CE) is an international tool that requires lifelong active participation in learning activities allowing the pharmacist to stay a major player among others. In 2014 the CE program was introduced to the pharmacists licensed in Lebanon as a mandatory requirement for re-licensure. In the absence of guidelines regarding the quality and quantity of CE programs, behavioral resistance to precipitate in the CE programs might be encountered among the pharmacists.

Situation analysis of community pharmacy owners in Lebanon.

Objective: To evaluate the current community pharmacists' interventions and job satisfaction, secondary to the alteration in the financial rewards.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out, using a proportionate random sample of Lebanese community pharmacy owners from all districts of Lebanon.

Results: Out of 1618 distributed questionnaires, 1465 (90.