Apoteker merupakan profesi yang memiliki peran penting dalam melaksanakan pekerjaan kefarmasian. Pekerjaan kefarmasian meliputi pembuatan, pengendalian mutu sediaan farmasi, pengamanan, pengadaan, penyimpanan, pendistribusian, pengelolaan, pelayanan resep obat, pelayanan informasi obat, serta pengembangan obat. Oleh karena itu, mahasiswa profesi apoteker sebagai calon apoteker diharapkan dapat memahami peran tersebut melalui Praktik Kerja Profesi Apoteker (PKPA). Pelaksanaan PKPA bertujuan agar mahasiswa dapat terlibat secara langsung untuk mengamati dan berpraktik di bawah pengawasan apoteker di instansi sebagai pembimbing sehingga mahasiswa dapat meningkatkan kompetensinya sebelum masuk dalam dunia kerja. PKPA dilaksanakan di Apotek Roxy Sawangan periode Januari 2022, Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan periode Maret 2022, dan PT. Integrated Healthcare Indonesia periode April – Mei 2022. Setelah PKPA ini dilaksanakan, diharapkan calon apoteker dapat meningkatkan wawasan, keterampilan dan pengalaman yang dibutuhkan sesuai dengan pekerjaan kefarmasian yang akan dilakukan.

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Pharmacists are professionals that have important roles in carrying out pharmaceutical work. Pharmaceutical work includes manufacturing, quality control of pharmaceutical preparations, security, procurement, storage, distribution, management, drug prescription services, drug information services, and drug development. Therefore, students of the pharmacist profession as prospective pharmacists were expected to understand this role through the Pharmacist Professional Work Practice (PKPA). The implementation of PKPA aims to enable students to be directly involved in observing and practicing under the supervision of pharmacists in the agency as supervisors so that students can improve their competencies before entering the world of work. PKPA implementation was carried out at the Roxy Sawangan Pharmacy for the January 2022 period, the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency for the March 2022 period, and PT. Integrated Healthcare Indonesia for the period April – May 2022. After the PKPA was implemented, prospective pharmacists could increase the insight, skills, and experience needed in the pharmaceutical work to be carried out.