FIP, as the global leader for pharmacy, has taken the initiative to build the “FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools”, which will be the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of pharmacy institutions from around the world. This global list is intended to guide all pharmacy stakeholders, from students to policymakers, in assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of pharmacy education strategies. The availability, completeness and quality of FIP’s World List of Pharmacy Schools means it will provide a unique source of information for pharmaceutical workforce policies, procedures and plans.
Further background on the FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools:
The FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools is an initiative to monitor pharmaceutical capacity and capability, similar to those of many other global organisations, such as the World Medical Schools List held by the World Medical Association. Given 2021 is the World Health Organization’s Year of Health and Care Workers, the need for our global organisations to demonstrate increased capacity in all health workers is key to ensure our professions are not further diminished but amplified.
FIP is a founder member of the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) with doctors, nurses, dentists, and physiotherapists. All WHPA members have been requested to feedback their schools’ status to the WHO as part of pandemic preparedness, and FIP having a list of accredited pharmacy schools will help to identify where schools may be needed and created to ensure long-term pharmaceutical workforce capacity.
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Pharmacy
The education of pharmacists developed on the territory of Slovenia in 17th and 18th century with influence of Pharmaceutical code of Duchy Carniola. First attempt to start pharmaceutical university program went back to 1946. Ten years later, section for pharmacy was organized inside of Department for chemistry at the Faculty of natural sciences, mathematics and philosophy. Complete 4-years program of pharmacy was established in 1960. In 1991 department for pharmacy at the Faculty for science and technology was organized. And finally, in 1996, Faculty of pharmacy (FFA) was established as a member of University of Ljubljana (UL).
University of Ljubljana is the oldest university in Slovenia. It was founded in 1919 and has 23 faculties and 3 academies and is indeed university, covering all fields of human activities including natural sciences, technology, medicine, health sciences, humanistic, sociology and all arts. It has about 50.000 students and 6.000 employees.
FFA is the only university organization in the Republic of Slovenia for study of pharmacy and laboratory biomedicine. Its activities comply with the National Higher Education Program of the Republic of Slovenia and with the Higher Education Act. FFA follows the concept of scientific pharmacy and clinical biochemistry, and considers research and study as two inseparable parts. Students of FFA are intensively stimulated to participate in research work in the second half of their study, which results in excellent and highly motivated graduates. We are research oriented faculty with more than 100 SCI publications per year, with more than 1200 citations per year in the last decade; our teachers are co-authors of several patents or patent applications. Students are regularly involved into research work.
By European standards FFA is a medium-sized faculty with about 1500 students and about 140 employees (1/3 pedagogical workers – professors and assistants). FFA carries out 6 programs: pharmacy integrated study (5+0), laboratory medicine (3+2), cosmetology (3+), industrial pharmacy (+2), and doctoral study in three fields. About 50 students are involved in specialist study, which is very important in pharmacy and laboratory medicine. Faculty of pharmacy provides also courses of long life learning and continuous professional development courses.