临床药理学在中国的进展

ADVANCES OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

中国临床药理学在过去的10年中有了迅速的发展,并在某些方面取得了较大进展。中国临床药理学在较短时间内迅速发展起来的主要经验为:(1)建立了三种类型专业机构(2)形成了一个能在学术上起带头作用的核心队伍(3)有一个核心单位起组织与促进作用(4)工作重点明确(5)卫生部重视(6)认真学国际经验,积极参加国际活动。

The First National Conference on Clinical Pharmacology held in Beijing in 1979 was the starting point of this discipline in thePeople's Republic of China. Since then, clinical pharmacology in Chinastepped forward rapidly and has got achievements in some aspects in recentyears, i.e., evaluation on new drugs; teaching and training; rational useof drugs and therapeutic drug monitoring; consultations and services to theMinistry of Public Health, new drug research units, pharmaceutical indus-tries and hospitals. The following experiences are considered to be essen-tial for the rapid development of clinical pharmacology in China: (1) A number of specifying units of clinical pharmacology has beenestablished in China in the past decade, including the research institutes ordepartments of clinical pharmacology in medical universities; clinicalpharmacology bases in hospitals set up by the Ministry of Public Healthin whole China; Section of Clinical Pharmacology of the Chinese Pharma-cological Society. These spifying units played a very important role in new drug evaluation, training and researches in clinical pharmacologywhich were useful for the rational use of drugs in clinical practice. (2) Existence of a core unit acting as an organizer and coordinator isquite essential, furthermore, existence of a number of qualified Chineseexperts on clinical pharmacology and a good cooperation among them arealso of importance. (3) The focal point of the works in clinical pharmacology done inChina in the past decade was drug evaluation which was consistent withthe requirement of the Ministry of Public Health. (4) The Ministry of Public Health has paid attention to and got effec-tive measures for the development of clinical pharmacology in China. (5) Active participation in the international activities on clinicalpharmacology also strongly promoted the advances of clinical pharmaco-logy in China.