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Background: Health care organization and management have changed over the last decades. Heading a pharmacy department in Canada in 2015 is quite challenging. It appears crucial to ensure that new pharmacists are made aware of such issues. Objective: To describe the teaching of hospital pharmacy management to post-graduate pharmacy students. Methods: Observational retrospective study. Data were extracted from the course syllabus and presentations by pharmacy residents on management controversies between 2005 and 2014. The aim was to profile the teaching and explore topics discussed over the last 10 years in Quebec universities. Results: The mandatory course is made up of two segments (theoretical and practical); during the practical segment, pharmacy residents gather information on their management experience and resolve a management controversy presented as an oral/ written communication. Over the last 10 years a clinical professor trained a total of 572 pharmacy residents who reviewed 213 topics overall. Eighty percent of management controversies concerned procedures (n = 170) and 17% (n = 36) technologies (n = 7 missing data). The key topics covered were in decreasing order: pharmacy management (19%), pharmaceutical care (18%), human resource management (10%), drug prescribing (9%) and drug compounding (8%). Fifty percent (n = 106) of were considered innovative. Conclusion: The study provides a 10-year outlook on the teaching of pharmacy management to hospital pharmacy residents in Québec. We feel that sharing this teaching experience is key with respect to the training of hospital pharmacy residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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