Health outcomes and policy in pharmay curricula among Arab countries: An evaluation of 191 academic institutions

Abstract

Highlights There is shortage in teaching the pharmaceutical health outcomes subjects among the universities in Arab countries. Pharmacovigilance and patient safety subjects were the lowest taught subjects compared to pharmacoeconomics and pharmacoepidemiology. Most of pharmaceutical health outcome subjects were taught in the last year of the college currucilum and not many of these sibjects have included in the internship year which is the training year. There is an urgent need to revise the current curriculum among the pharmacy colleges and perhaps other health colleges and include these subjects because of the need of healthcare system in specialized healthcare professionals in these subjects.

Pharmacy education in the Sultanate of Oman: Challenges and opportunities

“…Relevant national stakeholders, such as policymakers, academics, and industry, should work together to set the standards and strengthen the curricula to meet the need of future practice. A national framework for components such as interprofessional education, pharmacovigilance, and medication safety should be available for the national universities that offer medical and health professional studies (WHO, 2010;El-Awaisi et al, 2017;Al-Ghananeem et al, 2018;van Eekeren et al, 2018;Alghamdi et al, 2021).…”