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.
American University of Iraq – Baghdad (AUIB)
College of Pharmacy
The College of Pharmacy (CoP) at the American University of Iraq – Baghdad (AUIB) has as a sacred mission to develop future leaders in clinical pharmacy practice and related pharmaceutical sciences domains in Iraq through excellence and innovation in teaching, practice, and innovative research. The College’s purpose-built state-of-the-art facilities support high-impact research and clinical innovation.
Focused on delivery of patient-centered care, our curriculum prepares pharmacy students to be leaders and innovators in this rewarding and dynamic profession, as it is designed to follow up the evolving role of pharmacists. It informs of best practices via award-winning and world-renowned faculty, whose work has impacted students and patients around the world.
CoP currently offers a five-year Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) program that encompasses extensive basic science education with rigorous and diverse clinical internships so that graduates are readily prepared for clinical practice in various specialties.
CoP is planning to implement soon a six-year Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program that will provide Iraqi pharmacists with advanced clinical skills at our leading-edge university hospital in various pharmacy specialties.
Several pioneer postgraduate programs in Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceuticals Sciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy will be launched soon in partnership with leading universities in the world.