Social responsibility (SR) is a very acute problem for practical pharmacy today. This term is interpreted differently by each of Pharmacy subjects. Ethical issues, personal motives, and other components of formation social responsible behavior by Pharmacy subjects requires a detailed study taking into account educational and educational-qualifying levels in Ukraine.
The aim of this work is to identify the level of understanding the essence and completeness of the SR concept by the future specialists of pharmacy and their views on the current obstacles to the SR development by pharmaceutical companies inUkraine.
The object of the study are the students of Pharmaceutical Department of theZaporizhiaStateMedicalUniversity correspondence course. The methods of study were used: content analysis, grouping, comparison, modeling and questioning. We have interviewed 167 fifth- and sixth-year students in specialty “pharmacy”.
Undergraduates of the correspondence course don’t have the shaped consensus as to the manifestations of SR by the pharmaceutical organization. Distinctions in the original definitions of the term SR were revealed. It demands developing a common approach in teaching of the individual organizational and management disciplines. Students think that the main obstacles in the development of SR are the irresponsible policy of the state, the absence of financial opportunities for social investment and complicated system of taxation and in the absence of an appropriate legislative basis of SR. This indicates a low level of personal SR of undergraduate students and their desire to transfer the responsibility for their actions on the others.