Abstract
Clinical pharmacology has been recognized as both an academic as well as healthcare specialty in all developed countries. For all healthcare providers using drugs, clinical pharmacology showed the way to apply the principles of pharmacology in a variety of individual circumstances in patients with the intent to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of pharmacotherapy. This situation led to the introduction of clinical pharmacology to the curriculum of pharmaceutical study at the Faculty of Pharmacy, CU, in Bratislava in the academic year 1973/74. The development of the content of the study plan in clinical pharmacology is discussed in this paper. The author's claim, proven by multiple independent research studies, is that clinical pharmacology is the most complete, easiest to use and most objective drug information base for solutions to pharmacotherapy problems today.