The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce
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The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce Claire Anderson*1, Ian Bates2, Diane Beck3, Tina Penick Brock4, Billy Futter5, Hugo Mercer6, Mike Rouse7, Sarah Whitmarsh8, Tana Wuliji9 and Akemi Yonemura10 Address: 1School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, 2The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK, 3College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, 4Capacity Building & Performance Improvement, Management Sciences for Health, Washington DC, USA, 5Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6Health Workforce Education and Production, Department of Human Resources for Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 7Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 8Pharmacy Education Taskforce, London, UK, 9International Pharmaceutical Federation, The Hague, The Netherlands and 10Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance; Division of Higher Education; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; Paris, France Email: Claire Anderson* - [email protected]; Ian Bates - [email protected]; Diane Beck - [email protected]; Tina Penick Brock - [email protected]; Billy Futter - [email protected]; Hugo Mercer - [email protected]; Mike Rouse - [email protected]; Sarah Whitmarsh - [email protected]; Tana Wuliji - [email protected]; Akemi Yonemura - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 5 June 2009 Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:45
doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-45
Received: 27 May 2009 Accepted: 5 June 2009
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Abstract Pharmacists' roles are evolving from that of compounders and dispensers of medicines to that of experts on medicines within multidisciplinary health care teams. In the developing country context, the pharmacy is often the most accessible or even the sole point of access to health care advice and services. Because of their knowledge of medicines and clinical therapeutics, pharmacists are suitably placed for task shifting in health care and could be further trained to undertake functions such as clinical management and laboratory diagnostics. Indeed, pharmacists have been shown to be willing, competent, and cost-effective providers of what the professional literature calls "pharmaceutical care interventions"; however, internationally, there is an underuse of pharmacists for patient care and public health efforts. A coordinated and multifaceted effort to advance workforce planning, training and education is needed in order to prepare an adequate number of well-trained pharmacists for such roles. Acknowl
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