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ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION
Without a professionally educated healthcare workforce,
an appropriate academic infrastructure and high-quality,
competency-based education, we will not be able to achieve
responsible use of medicines.
August 2013 saw the FIP Council approve a FIP Education Initiative
5-year Action Plan (2014-18). This sets out how FIPEd will contribute
to the transformation and scaling up of pharmaceu tical education
over the next few years. Better health for populations requires us
to advance and develop our profession to meet present and future
healthcare needs, says Henri R. Manasse Jr, chair of the FIPEd
Steering Committee.
PREPARING A SUITABLE WORKFORCE
The pharmacy profession needs to ensure the entire work-
force is competent to deliver responsible medicines use. We
communicated our commitment to this through the Global
Forum on Human Resources for Health, held in Brazil in
November 2013.
2013/14 also saw agreement reached between the European
Parliament, the European Commission and EU Governments
to allow future specialisations of pharmacy, including
hospital pharmacy, and to seek pan-European recognition
across borders through a common training framework.
NURTURING THE FUTURE GENERATION
We want responsible medicines use to become
custom and habit, and to be sustained into the
future. That s why FIP puts such importance on
students and young pharmacists and scientists.
In addition to our Young Pharmacists Group s
activities, FIP works with the International
Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF) and
similar associations. In October 2013, for example,
our CEO presented new concepts in world health
to the Tunisian Association of Pharmacy Students,
asking whether the profession is ready. And in
August 2013, FIPEd ran a workshop on research
methodology for future pharmacists at the IPSF
congress in the Netherlands.
VIGNETTES 2013/14
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EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES