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.
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Istanbul Altınbas University
School of Pharmacy
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University is a non-profit foundation university founded by Mehmet Altinbas Education and Culture Foundation in 2008. Mehmet Altinbas Education and Culture Foundation is one of the most significant philanthropy projects of the Altinbas Group, which operates internationally with over 54 firms in Turkey and abroad.
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University currently offers 21 undergraduate programs under 6 schools, namely, School of Engineering and Architecture, School of Fine Arts and Design, School of Economics and Admistratative Sciences, School of Law, School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Pharmacy and 5 graduate programs under 2 graduate schools, namely, Graduate School of Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Social Sciences. The university is established with the aim of taking its place among the leading universities of the world with its strong academic staff, research and education programs which meet international standards, and modern technical infrastructure to support the teaching-learning environment which encourages its students to be productive, investigative and intellectual individuals, who are respectful of human rights and freedoms, who take on a social responsibility to serve humanity; and who possess critical thinking abilities in line with universal knowledge and values
The School of Pharmacy accepted its first students in the academic year of 2012-2013. It is one of the few pharmacy schools in Turkey established within a foundation university and is comprised of three divisions under which several departments in the field of pharmaceutical sciences operate:
- Division of Pharmaceutical Professional Sciences
- Department of Pharmacognosy
- Department of Pharmacology
- Department of Pharmaceutical Botany
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology
- Department of Pharmacy Management
- Division of Pharmaceutical Technology
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
- Department of Radiopharmacy
- Division of Pharmaceutical Basic Sciences
- Department of Analytical Chemistry
- Department of Biochemistry
- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology
- Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University School of Pharmacy is determined to establish highest standards of teaching and research. The academic staff is composed of either graduates or researchers of prestigious US or European Universities.