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.
Cyprus International University
Faculty of Pharmacy
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The Cyprus International University Faculty of Pharmacy, started its education in the 2011-2012 academic year, with the 5-year M.Pharm. and 6-year Pharm.D. degrees. The Cyprus International University Faculty of Pharmacy, is a faculty that provides education in light of new scientific developments, in the field of medicine and pharmacy, considering public health and awareness as its primary priority. The faculty aims to raise students who are scientifically and socially responsible, have critical thinking, equitable, ethical, democratic and secular, and equipped to provide pharmacy services with an internationally accepted academic environment in education and research. The Faculty of Pharmacy takes an active role in all stages of the pharmaceutical process, from the research and development of pharmaceutical raw materials and products, to their presentation to the patient and its monitoring in the body, in the provided international academic environment. The faculty educates pharmacists who have the competence to serve social health and ethical values with patient-oriented thinking, by contributing to scientific studies in this field. The Faculty of Pharmacy offers a 5-year M.Pharm. and 6-year Pharm.D. programs. In the Pharm.D. program, the first 5 years are parallel with the M.Pharm. program, and the 6th year of the program consists of practices and internships with further classes. Program is accredited by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (Nigeria Pharmacy Council), focuses on laboratory studies as well as theoretical courses. In addition to the courses offered by the expert training staff, students have the opportunity to concentrate on their preferred branches by preparing a graduation project in their final year, under the supervision of faculty members. The Faculty of Pharmacy Drug Information Center (website) provides services to answer questions regarding drug interactions, side effects and other drug-related issues by its team of Clinical Pharmacy Faculty members and PhD students.
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