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.
Sweden's only faculty of pharmacy was established in Uppsala in 1968. Before that there was a pharmaceutical institution in Stockholm since 1837. The Faculty has a national responsibility for research and higher education in the fields of pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical bioscience, and pharmacy. With its three departments, the Faculty constitutes a dynamic centre for everything relating to pharmaceuticals.
The Faculty, with its 1200 students, offers a 3 years Bachelor of Science Programme in Pharmacy and a 5 years Master of Science Programme in Pharmacy. In additions to this the Faculty offers a 2 years Master Programme in Drug Management and a 2 years
Master Programme in Drug Discovery and Development. An one year specialication in clinical pharmacy is also run by the Faculty.
A master's programme in engineering with specialisation in chemical technology for pharmaceuticals and materials is also offered by the Faculty. This programme is run in collaboration with the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Research is organised in three major programmes: drug development, drug delivery and drug usage. Pharmaceutical research and graduate education have close and natural interfaces with the pharmaceutical industry, the national system of pharmacies, and other sectors of health and medical care. Major portions of the Faculty's activities are moving forward the frontiers of research and have attracted international attention. The Faculty has extensive international contacts and, together with sister universities in London, Leiden, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Paris, is part of the ULLA Network for co-operation in research and postgraduate education.