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Learning Experience Questionnaire , a continuation of the IPSF Moving On II, which focused on the pharmacy students perceptions of their education (data being collected since 2004). The questionnaire has now been revised to include students ways of studying their degrees and will allow world-wide comparisons to be made and mapping of the learning experiences and the quality of learning in pharmacy programmes. It is available online (http://www.codegnet. org.uk/moII_2013/) in six different languages (Arabic, French, Japanese, Mandarin-Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish).

The YPG Barometer project s pilot study was with the Portuguese Young Pharmacist group. YPG is working towards recruiting other national groups to help roll out and collect data over the next year. National groups are being used as often they are affiliated with other member groups of FIP and may be able to access better resources. The YPG aims to recruit at least five other national groups from the different regions of the world (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America plus Australia). This information will hopefully be collated to provide a global picture of the workplace issues for young pharmacists by the FIP Annual Congress 2014 Bangkok.

The Leadership Project is currently working in collaboration with the FIPEd Development Team. One of the components of the project will be to provide a leadership skills session at future FIP World Congresses, occurring annually. This year the session will focus on leadership for young pharmacists, which will inform the initial focus of the Leadership Project .

References

1. Pharmacy Education journal (website). Available from: http://pharmacyeducation.fip.org.

2. International Pharmaceutical Federation and International Pharmaceutical Students Federation - FIP-IPSF (2012) Patient Counselling Booklet, Counselling, Concordance and Communication - Innovative Education for Pharmacists [2nd edition]. The Hague, The Netherlands: International Pharmaceutical Federation (on-line). Available from: http://www.fip.org/files/fip/PI/fip_ipsf_pce_2nd_2012.pdf.