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.
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Facultad de Farmacia
The Faculty of Pharmacy was created in 2003 as a new Faculty of Miguel Hernández University. It is located in San Juan, Alicante, and around 600 students and 90 teachers are part of it since then. The new Degree in Pharmacy is yet fully introduced as it began in 2009 together with the previous Degree, which is now finishing but still fully valid. The aim of our Faculty is to train and educate professional specialists in all the aspects related to drugs and medication, and to prepare our students to practice their activity highly qualified in the biomedical activity, with its different areas of clinical advice, medication distribution in a pharmacy or hospitals, and all the aspects linked to Health facets.
Different kind of activities are organized to adjust the students comprehensive training to their future professional activities, emphasizing in practical skills through specific seminars, debate forums with professionals in the field, student conferences organized by the students themselves where different issues of interest for their future as pharmacists are discussed.
The Faculty also maintains an interesting exchange activity in parallel through programs such as SICUE and ERASMUS, which periodically allow UMH students to complement their studies abroad or in Spanish Universities, besides the establishment of cultural and professional important links. All the information related to the academic of our Faculty can be found in two web sites: www.umh.es and http://farmacia.umh.es