Transforming pharmacy education and practice for the new century
In conclusion:
Traditional pharmacy programs (schools) are no longer considered to
build future pharmacy graduate. Pharmacy education and practice continue to
evolve from traditional to recent advancement. To catch up with recent advance
in pharmacy education and practice and to provide quality patient care, it is
very imperative that countries have accreditation pharmacy council. The
accreditation pharmacy council ensures that pharmacy programs restructuring the
pharmacy curriculum to clinically focused curriculum that provides students
with knowledge, research skills and abilities through active learning (i.e.,
experiential learning) and real-life clinical scenarios. These are assessed
using recent assessment strategies such as multiple-choice questions, oral
interviews, short essay and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations which is
timed simulation of clinical scenarios.
