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.
James Cook University
College of Medicine and Dentistry
Pharmacy and Medical Research Building Ð 47, 4811, Townsville, QueenslandAustralia
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The School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville Australia is part of the Faculty of Medicine Health and Molecular Sciences, which has strong commitment to expanding educational opportunities within north Queensland and northern Australia, especially in relation to the health professions and since 1997 has directly assisted in increasing the quality of healthcare in the region by aiding in the recruitment and retention of high quality health professionals
Pharmacy, since its inception in 1999 has had as its mission the promotion of excellence in pharmacy through education, research, scholarship and professional engagement. The vision of the pharmacy program is to be recognized regionally, nationally and internationally, as a School based in the tropics, which prepares its pharmacy graduates for practice, enhancing the capacity of the profession in the rural, remote and indigenous communities in which we work.
Pharmacy boasts a modern integrated curriculum, where students are exposed to various modes of teaching across the subject areas: lectures, tutorials, workshops, practicals. Simulated patients are used in workshops and students are allowed to develop as health practitioners by being trained in skills involving not only showing their knowledge in written examinations but orally in counseling and oral presentations and examinations. The JCU Placement Program has been designed to support the modern integrated curriculum and to link this to Pharmacy Student experiences in the practice: community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, rural and remote pharmacy practice are the three main areas of experiential practice, while other areas available for student placements include, industrial pharmacy, government pharmacy military pharmacy and various multidisciplinary placements (with doctors, veterinarians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dentists etc). Because of the support for the program from pharmacists, especially throughout north Queensland, the program maintains a strong professional engagement which support both teaching and research.
Pharmacy offers a number of postgraduate qualifications, with flexibility to accommodate the aspirations of students wishing to undertake full time study in both the pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice and those practicing pharmacists wanting to conduct a research project in the practice.
Undergraduate Programmes
Bachelor of Pharmacy [ BPharm]
Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours [ BPharm {HONS} ] – On Course
Postgraduate Programmes
By Research
Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours [ BPharm {HONS} ] – Postgraduate
Master of Pharmacy [ MPharm ]
Doctor of Philosophy [ PhD ]
By Research and Coursework
Masters in Pharmaceutical Public Health [ MPharmPH ]*
Doctor of Pharmacy [ DPharm ]*
*available by distance online