The pharmacist in the third world countries is facing some new challenges that make it mandatory for him to equip himself for the task of a patient-oriented practice that promotes and assures safe and rational drug therapy. This paper discusses the challenges of therapeutics facing the clinical pharmacist practicing in the in the tropics and how these should generate in him a proper patient-oriented attitude to health care. It then clearly defines and outlines the multifarious role of a clinical pharmacists and how this could be blended with that of the other health professionals to ensure skillful and competent practice that guarantees optimum therapeutic care. For such role to be performed to the required standard, the paper now recommends the training, the exposure, the experience and the commitment that the clinical pharmacist must have. Added to this is the important need to have a conducive hospital environment that is significantly favourable to the performance of the required clinical functions.

Health Literacy/education is central to primary health care in encouraging behaviour that promotes healthy living, prevents illnesses, cures diseases and facilitate rehabilitation. Thus, this study examined the effectiveness of three instructional strategies, drama method, audio-based instructional package and conventional teaching method in health education teaching/learning process by adult learners. The study employed a 3x2x2 quasi-experimental, pre-test, post-test control group design. Three hundred and four (304) subjects were purposively selected from sixteen adult literacy centres in Oyo State , Nigeria . Data were collected to test the three hypotheses generated using two valid and reliable instrument viz Learnersí Achievement Test in Health Education (LATHED) and Learners Attitude Towards Health Education (LATHEQ). The study lasted two weeks and data obtained were analysed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) and Scheffe-post-hoc test. The results show that there was a significant main effect of treatment on learnersí achievement in health education (F(2,303) = 19.92; P < 0.05). Thus, learners taught with drama method made a significant gain in knowledge with the highest mean score of 81.304 followed by those taught with audio-based instructional package with a mean score of 78.057, while the conventional method contributed least with a mean score of 62.94. Also, there was a significant main effect of treatment on attitude towards Health Education (F(2,303) = 6,282; P < 0.05). However, there was no significant main effect of gender on learnerís achievement in health education (F(1,303) = 2.167; P > 0.05), as well as learnersí attitude towards health education (F(1,303) = 2.138; P > 0.05). The study results have important implications on health education, health education tutors, health care providers, professionals and the society at large.