Table 1. Indicators and professional roles at community pharmacy of pharmacists and assistant pharmacists in Estonia 36,45,46.

	Pharmacists	Assistant pharmacists
Number of professionals	803 (26.03.2021), 40% of total community pharmacy workforce	652 (26.03.2021), 34% of total community pharmacy workforce
Education	Master Degree at the University of Tartu (5 years)	Professional higher education at the Tallinn Health Care College (3 years)
Professional roles	Pharmacy owner, pharmacy manager, responsible pharmacist, pharmacist	Assistant pharmacist, pharmacy manager only in the structural unit of the main pharmacy

Main professional roles of both professions are organization and provision of high-quality pharmaceutical care: dispensing and counselling of prescription and OTC medicines; compounding of extemporaneous medicines; point of care testing (e.g. blood pressure measurement, cholesterol); disease prevention and health education; reporting of adverse drug reaction; provision of extended services (mostly pharmacists).