Members urged to respond to consultations on education
A call for members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to respond to consultations on the future of pharmacy education was made after a seminar held by the Society's Academic Pharmacy Group on 12 January 2007.
The seminar was held to discuss the report “Health care professional education
and training: how does UK pharmacy compare?” by David Wright and Martin
Loftus of the University of East Anglia (PJ, 2 December 2006, p671). The report
found that UK pharmacy education is handicapped by being treated as a science
subject rather than a clinical qualification.
Commenting on the report, the chairman of the Society’s Education Committee,
Graham Phillips, said: “This report highlights why the Society’s
education reform programme ‘Fit for the future’ is so important.
We can learn from pharmacy education in other countries and other health care
educators in the UK, and we have to take a serious look at clinical teaching
and the funding needed to support it in a meaningful way. … I would urge
all members to respond to the ongoing consultations on the future of pharmacy
education which can be found on the Society’s website
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