An international postgraduate course in pharmaceutical medicine: a 25-year review
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE 2001, 15:261–263
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An international postgraduate course in pharmaceutical medicine: a 25-year review D.K. Luscombe and M.S. Salek Course Directors, Department of Health and Medicines, The Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, UK
Correspondence to Professor David K. Luscombe, Department of Health and Medicines, The Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3XF, UK. Summary In 1975, a Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) on Pharmaceutical Medicine was formed to establish a structured training programme in pharmaceutical medicine for medically qualified personnel employed in the pharmaceutical industry. This initiative paralleled the creation of a Diploma examination in the discipline. In 1978, the JAC sought an academic partner and the day-to-day running was handed over to the Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales, Cardiff. Later the JAC was disbanded, and the course was jointly organized by the University of Wales and the British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians (BrAPP). It is the leading course of its type in the world and attracts trainees from many countries. It is a 2-year, part-time residential course that is specifically designed for new entrants to the pharmaceutical industry. It provides the opportunity to obtain a professional qualification in pharmaceutical medicine, such as the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine from the UK Royal Colleges of Physicians and to receive a thorough training in all aspects of this specialty. Keywords: postgraduate training; pharmaceutical medicine; pharmaceutical physicians; Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine.
Introduction With the increasing knowledge base and skills required by pharmaceutical physicians in the 1950s, there became a real need to establish a structured postgraduate training programme for doctors in the industry and particularly for new entrants. This need was reinforced with the publication of the report of the Royal Commission on Medical Training (1968) and that of the Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training (JCHMT). There was an emphasis on the need for medical doctors in the pharmaceutical industry to undergo an appropriate form of training and, furthermore, to seek recognition for their particular expertise. It was initially assumed that industry doctors would be eligible for accreditation in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics by the JCHMT, but this was not to be the case [1]. Thus, it became essential to seek some other form of recognition for pharmaceutical physicians. The possibility of the three Royal College of Physicians in the UK providing this recognition resulted in a formal proposal
being submitted to their Joint Committee for a postgraduate diploma to be established for pharmaceutical physicians. In 1975, the Joint Committee a
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