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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce
Human Resources for Health, Volume 7, Article 45, Year 2009
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Pharmacists' roles are evolving from that of compounders and dispensers of medicines to that of experts on medicines within multidisciplinary health care teams. In the developing country context, the pharmacy is often the most accessible or even the sole point of access to health care advice and services. Because of their knowledge of medicines and clinical therapeutics, pharmacists are suitably placed for task shifting in health care and could be further trained to undertake functions such as clinical management and laboratory diagnostics. Indeed, pharmacists have been shown to be willing, competent, and cost-effective providers of what the professional literature calls "pharmaceutical care interventions" however, internationally, there is an underuse of pharmacists for patient care and public health efforts. A coordinated and multifaceted effort to advance workforce planning, training and education is needed in order to prepare an adequate number of well-trained pharmacists for such roles. Acknowledging that health care needs can vary across geography and culture, an international group of key stakeholders in pharmacy education and global health has reached unanimous agreement that pharmacy education must be quality-driven and directed towards societal health care needs, the services required to meet those needs, the competences necessary to provide these services and the education needed to ensure those competences. Using that framework, this commentary describes the Pharmacy Education Taskforce of the World Health Organization, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Pharmaceutical Federation Global Pharmacy and the Education Action Plan 2008-2010, including the foundation, domains, objectives and outcome measures, and includes several examples of current activities within this scope. © 2009 Anderson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Anderson, Claire W.
United Kingdom, Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Bates, Ian P.
United Kingdom, London
Ucl School of Pharmacy
Beck, Diane
United States, Gainesville
University of Florida
Brock, Tina Penick
United States, Arlington
Management Sciences for Health
Futter, Billy
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Mercer, Hugo
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Rouse, Michael J.
United States, Chicago
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
Whitmarsh, Sarah
United Kingdom, London
Education and Employers Taskforce
Wuliji, Tana
Netherlands, Den Haag
International Pharmaceutical Federation
Yonemura, Akemi
France, Paris
Scientific and Cultural Organization Unesco
Statistics
Citations: 135
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 10
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/1478-4491-7-45
e-ISSN:
14784491
Research Areas
Health System And Policy