PharmD or Needs Based Education: Which Comes First?

Purposeful Global Engagement in Pharmacy Education

“…16 This is also in line with the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Pharmacy Education Taskforce, which aims to promote needsbased education as a mechanism to evolve pharmacy education worldwide [17][18][19] and the FIP Global Pharmacy Taskforce Report to meet the present and future societal and pharmaceutical health needs around the world. 20 US pharmacy schools engaged in global engagement endeavors should clearly identify the needs of their partner institutions.…”

Clinical Pharmacy Clerkship in Pakistan: A leap from paper to practice

“…Reasons contributing to the exit, include a shortage of established hospital pharmacy services in the country, barriers to effective pharmacy practice, lack of dispensing separation, and lack of standard practice guidelines [5,9]. A difficulty in continued growth of these clerkship programs is the lack of academic and clinical training capacity in many institutions.…”

“…In Pakistan, approximately 2587 pharmacists graduate every year. More than 50% work in the pharmaceutical industry and less than 25% actually work in a hospital or community pharmacy [4][5][6][7]. This number is not sufficient to provide optimal health care delivery to the population in hospital and community settings.…”

Doctor of Pharmacy internship module in pediatrics at a Teaching Hospital in Lalitpur, Nepal- A preliminary report

“…An important issue to consider is if Nepal does not provide them enough opportunities, they may migrate to developed nations 9 . In one study from Pakistan, 90% of pharmacy graduates left the country after graduation 10 . The solutions to this problem may be integration of this trained manpower into the present health care system, providing support and opportunity for further trainings in a timely fashion.…”

“…The PharmD course is relatively new in South East Asia but is gaining popularity 12 . The development of clinically oriented PharmD curriculum including internship programme will be bringing change in hospital pharmacy system with pharmacist visiting wards and clinics to become active member of health care team 10 . Internship in community pharmacies and in hospitals is common in PharmD programs throughout world.…”