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title: "Honorary Fellow Recognition for Pharmacists in Critical Care: Trends and Implications"
id: "pubmed-42768719"
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specialty: "Critical Care"
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source_url: "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42768719/"
doi: "10.1093/ajhp/zxag300"
published_at: "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z"
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# Honorary Fellow Recognition for Pharmacists in Critical Care: Trends and Implications
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- **Specialty:** [Critical Care](https://medichelpline.com/clinical-feed/critical-care.md)
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- **Source URL:** [Original Journal Publication](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42768719/)
- **DOI:** [10.1093/ajhp/zxag300](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fajhp%2Fzxag300)
- **Published At:** 2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
- **Evidence Rating:** Journal Article
## Executive GIST (TL;DR)
- **Honorary Fellow** status is one of the highest recognitions awarded by professional societies, reflecting sustained contributions to clinical practice, scholarship, leadership, and specialty advancement. - The article reports that **pharmacists** were awarded Honorary Fellow recognition in critical care soon after the designation became available to members of the **Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)**. - The proportion of pharmacists who have received Honorary Fellow designation from SCCM currently **exceeds the proportion** of the organization’s general membership who hold that designation. - Recognition of pharmacists as Fellows across other **critical care organizations** lags behind SCCM; the article states there is **room for improvement** in fellow recognition of pharmacists in those organizations. - The source highlights the interprofessional nature of critical care and lists keywords including **critical care**, **fellow**, **interprofessional**, and **pharmacists**. - Specific numerical data, selection criteria, timelines for adoption, and the identities or numbers of individual pharmacist Fellows were not reported in the source abstract.
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Online ahead of print. # Honorary Fellow Recognition of Pharmacists in Critical Care [Brian L Erstad](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Erstad+BL&cauthor_id=42768719)[ 1 ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42768719/#full-view-affiliation-1 "Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, Tucson, Arizona, USA."), [Christopher K Finch](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Finch+CK&cauthor_id=42768719)[ 2 ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42768719/#full-view-affiliation-2 "Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, Tucson, Arizona USA.") Affiliations Expand ### Affiliations * 1 Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, Tucson, Arizona, USA. * 2 Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, University of Arizona R. 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