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FIP World List
of Pharmacy Schools

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 The West Indies

School of Pharmacy

Building 39 Eric William Medical Sciences Complex, Mount Hope
Trinidad and Tobago
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The Faculty of Medical Sciences

The Faculty of Medical Sciences at St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago is situated at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and comprises the schools of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and advanced nursing education.

Ours is the only Caribbean, medical school that offers the problem-based learning system. This modality of learning requires student interaction in small groups, supplemented by didactic lectures. The Faculty of Medical Sciences offers a choice of research-based, postgraduate degrees in the schools of medicine and veterinary medicine, which will allow interested graduates to pursue research work in areas of interest in anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and public health.

We also offer the MD by thesis in clinical disciplines, as well as professional training in anaesthetics, obstetrics and gynaecology, radiology, psychiatry, orthopaedics, and, shortly, child health, internal medicine and surgery.

The Faculty of Medical Sciences is committed to the development of excellence in dental, medical and veterinary health research. While our research priorities are determined by local and regional needs, our perspective will remain international through the development of productive, research collaborations with renowned research institutions across the world. In so doing, the Faculty of Medical Sciences will bring developed, world technology to solve regional, health problems, as defined by regional governments and agencies.

Over the last two decades, the dramatic changes, which have taken place in healthcare systems, have created many new and exciting roles for healthcare providers. The Faculty is well equipped with modern teaching and research laboratories, which facilitate practical classes and on-going research programmes. Computer-assisted, learning facilities have also been established. A well-stocked Medical Sciences Library is on site with a Students’ Computer Laboratory providing access to Internet and literature search facilities. Students of the Faculty also have access to the Veterinary, Dental and Medical Hospitals, which are maintained by the North West Regional Health Authority.

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the most southerly of the Caribbean islands and benefits from a strong, petroleum-based economy. We see a vast range of diseases common both to developed and developing countries. Our Faculty members are of the highest calibre, and ably guide the students through the understanding of health and disease.

You will find that Trinidad and Tobago is a truly cosmopolitan nation, with great, cultural diversity. We are proud to boast that all races and creeds live in harmony here, so that one's professional training is complemented by exposure to a unique nation and its peoples.

Mission Statement

To recruit and train students as healthcare professionals in medicine, as well as in dentistry, veterinary sciences, advanced nursing and fields allied to health, and to meet the needs of and improve the healthcare delivery system for the people they serve, by striving for professional excellence throughout their career in this constantly changing world.

To contribute to the social, economic, and cultural development of the Caribbean by maintaining a centre of excellence, inculcating in graduates an attitude of excellence in service and research.

Background

The University of the West Indies (UWI) was founded in 1948 at Mona, Jamaica, as a college of the University of London. In that year, thirty-three students from nine countries of the British West Indies were admitted to the founding Faculty of Medicine. The University Hospital was completed in 1953, when the first graduates obtained their MBBS degree, having had their clinical training at the Kingston Public Hospital. In 1961, the University of the West Indies became an independent entity, and, at about that time, it established two other campuses, firstly in Trinidad at St. Augustine, and later in Barbados at Cave Hill. The University then served 15 different territories, most of which were still colonies of Great Britain.

As a result of a feasibility study on expansion and/or duplication of the Faculty of Medicine, The University accepted the need for expansion and in 1979, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago agreed to fund the establishment of the school and hospital at Mt. Hope. A purpose-built facility to accommodate medical, dental, veterinary, pharmacy and advanced nursing education was built on the Mt. Hope site, where a Women’s Hospital was already located, and which was in use for that segment of the training of students in Trinidad. This complex, subsequently called the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, is managed by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and, since 1989, accommodates the teaching facilities of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at St. Augustine for medical, dental, veterinary and pharmacy students. In 2005, we welcomed our first nursing students.

The School of Pharmacy

Our Mission

To provide high quality professionals to serve the needs of society in pharmacy, pharmaceutical care and the pharmaceutical sciences via innovative and exemplary programmes of education, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, that promotes the concept of healthcare team, as well as, excellence in research.

 

History

The B.Sc. Pharmacy degree programme was launched in 1995 by the Faculty of Medical Sciences. Prior to 1995, pharmacy education in Trinidad produced diplomats/certificate holders in pharmacy. This programme was discontinued in 1995, and all the newly qualified pharmacists have a B.Sc. Pharmacy degree.

The Pharmacy programme started within the Department of Paraclinical Sciences in 1995 with 13 students. Our first group of students graduated in 1999. Since then, the programme has produced approximately 200 graduates, and the student admission has increased almost four-fold.

In 2007, the School was formally recognized, as such, and a director was appointed. Many part-time staff have now been replaced with full-time staff, and associate lecturers have been appointed at clerical sites. In 2005, a new curriculum was put in place to better meet the needs of the pharmacy student. The School has recently started an M.Phil. programme, was quality audited in 2003, and is expected to be quality audited in 2009.

Applicants to the School of Pharmacy are mainly Trinidadian nationals, and, to a lesser extent from Barbados, Bahamas, USA, Canada, and Botswana. The demand for admission in to the B.Sc. programme is increasing every year. The School currently admits about 40 students every year, of which about one-quarter are foreign students. The average ratio of male to female students is 1 to 4.

The school also provides a part-time programme to non-degree pharmacists and continuing education to pharmacists of Trinidad and Tobago. Some of our graduates have moved on from Trinidad, and now practise in the UK, USA and Canada.

Last update 24 November 2022

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