Transforming Health Professional Education

A Call to Action to Transform Pharmacy Education and Practice in the Arab World

“…1,2 Pharmacists are moving beyond dispensing medications toward more advanced services such as comprehensive medication safety systems, collaborative drug therapy management, and improving transitions of care. 3,4 However, transforming patient care services require educated and qualified clinical pharmacists as well as trained educators to support their deployment and maintenance.…”

Needs-Based Education in the Context of Globalization

“…13 In fact, in countries with few pharmacists, the initial focus may need to be on appropriate pharmaceutical management, where improvements in pharmaceutical supply are needed to achieve the health-related millennium development goals. 14 The introduction of doctor of pharmacy degree programs or similar programs in developing and transition countries has not been without its critics, with education quality; opportunities and environments for clinical learning experiences; job opportunities; and professional inequalities being at the center of the debate. [15][16][17] These criticisms are set against a backdrop of expectant globalization and the desire to attain a perceived global standard.…”

Social Accountability: Introducing a new dimension in optometric education

“…This call for medical schools to improve their response to health-related needs and challenges in society and to orient their research and service delivery activities accordingly was echoed by the 130 contributors to the Global Consensus for Social Accountability of Medical Schools (GCSA, 2010). Other authors (Frenk et al 2010;Gibbs and McLean 2011;Sahni 1977) (Davis et al 2007) and pharmacy (Anderson et al 2011) are other health professions that show some evidence, through scholarly articles, of engaging with the discourse of transforming education towards greater social accountability.…”