Pharmaceutical education

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• Pharmaceutical education
• Past or Future?

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Responsibility of pharmacists

• Quality drugs on affordable prices
• Access to drugs
• Balance of professional role and commercial
  interest
• Health and finance reform
• Increasing demands of population
• Informational revolution

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Challenges

• Increasing pharmaceutical market and drug
  expenditures
• New Products
• Pharmacoeconomics
• Self-medication
• Generics
• Change of professional role

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WHO and role of pharmacists

• WHO/EURO 1988 Role of the Pharmacist
• WHO meeting in New Delhi, 1988
• Role of the pharmacist in the health care system
• WHO meeting in Tokyo, 1993
• WHO meeting in Vancouver 1997
• Good Pharmacy Practice in community and hospital
• pharmacy settings, 1996
• WHA resolution WHA 47.12, 1994 on the
• Role of the Pharmacist
• Close collaboration with FIP ( GPEP)
• EU Advisory committee
• Council of Europe publications

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World Health Assembly 47.12 Role of Pharmacist,
1994

• Importance of pharmaceutical care for
• rational use of drugs
• Key role of pharmacist among health care
  professionals
• Quality of Drugs and Drug Supply
• Determination of role and place of pharmacist in
• Healthcare System
• Provision of evidence based information and
  consultation
• on use of Drugs

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Main problems

• Curricula responding to real needs
• Rational use of professionals with higher
  education
• Need estimation
• Managers of pharmaceutical sector are not aware
  that they are the main consumers of Education

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Change of Curricula

• Present and future role of pharmacist
• To define what kind of professional we need
• Problem based approach
• Including management and
• clinical disciplines in curricula

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Change of curricula recommended approach

• Set the target to educate pharmacist of today
• for tomorrow
• Determination of practice areas, focus items and
  functions
• Determination of knowledge and skills
• Development of new curricula