A Study on How Industrial Pharmacists Rank Competences for Pharmacy Practice: A Case for Industrial Pharmacy Specialization Atkinson, Jeffrey Paepe, Kristien Sánchez Pozo, Antonio Rekkas, Dimitrios Volmer, Daisy Hirvonen, Jouni Bozic, Borut Skowron, Agnieska Mircioiu, Constantin Marcincal, Annie Koster, Andries Wilson, Keith Schravendijk, Chris Education Specialization Practice This paper looks at the way in which industrial pharmacists rank the fundamental competences for pharmacy practice. European industrial pharmacists (n = 135) ranked 68 competences for practice, arranged into 13 clusters of two types (personal and patient care). Results show that, compared to community pharmacists (n = 258), industrial pharmacists rank competences centering on research, development and production of drugs higher, and those centering on patient care lower. Competences centering on values, communication skills, etc. were ranked similarly by the two groups of pharmacists. These results are discussed in the light of the existence or not of an “industrial pharmacy” specialization. 2017-02-22T12:29:34Z 2017-02-22T12:29:34Z 2016 journal article Atkinson, J. [et al]. A Study on How Industrial Pharmacists Rank Competences for Pharmacy Practice: A Case for Industrial Pharmacy Specialization. Pharmacy 2016, 4, 13. [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/45006] 2226-4787 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/45006 spa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License MDPI