Narrator: This is Science Today. Over forty years ago, a pair of
graduate students at the University of California, San Francisco
initiated the practice now known as clinical pharmacy. Sharon
Youmans, an associate professor of clinical pharmacy at UCSF
says it was initially known as the 9th floor project. Youmans: A
couple of grad students went up to the ninth floor with their
white coats and their clipboard, just looking around and seeing
what they could do in terms of the medications. And so it was
kind of an interesting project because the physicians didn't
really know - what are you hear for, what are you doing? -
because they weren't used to it. Narrator: The 9th floor
project, which took place in the 1960s at the University of
California, San Francisco, started the history of pharmacists
being part of the medical team in the hospital. Youmans: And so
it sort of just blossomed into this great new role of
pharmacists, which before that, they had just basically been
trained to go out and work in the commun