Abstract
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) pharmacy education has undergone significant reform in recent years to introduce more clinical and social pharmacy courses to replace many traditional pharmaceutical sciences courses that were typically dominate pharmacy curricula. The aim of this work was to carry out a comprehensive comparative analysis on all Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) programs in the UAE and to describe the developments of BPharm curricula offered by UAE colleges of pharmacy after increasing the number of credit hours allocated for clinical and social pharmacy courses. BPharm curricula offered by all pharmacy colleges in the UAE were retrieved from their official websites. A comparative study on different curricula was carried out to investigate the structure of BPharm curricula after incorporating more patient-centered courses. Clinical and social pharmacy courses represent between 22% and 51% of the total BPharm credit hours. Non-clinical/social courses are no longer representing the majority of BPharm courses. PharmD degree program is offered by only one university. The course credit hour distribution of different BPharm programs is varied from one program to another. More clinical and social pharmacy courses are increasingly replacing the traditional pharmaceutical sciences subjects such as pharmaceutics, chemistry, biomedical, and basic sciences.
Highlights
United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an emerged federation of seven Emirates with a population amounted to 9.3 million in 2017 [1]
Up to the knowledge of the author no published study has been identified in literature that performed a comparative analysis of different Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) programs offered by UAE universities
Dubai Women College (DWC) of High Colleges of Technology (HCT), Fatima College of Health Sciences (FCHS) of the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT), and Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) College of Pharmaceutical Sciences have the lowest number of BPharm program credit hours with 132, 140, and 145 hours, respectively
Summary
United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an emerged federation of seven Emirates with a population amounted to 9.3 million in 2017 [1]. In less than half a century, the UAE has emerged as one of the global nations with top education system. Pharmacy education in UAE has progressed and many changes have been made to pharmacy undergraduate curricula to replace traditional courses with patient-centered pharmacy courses related to clinical and social pharmacy. This is in trend with the global changes in the pharmacy profession from product-oriented to a patient-centered [3]. Up to the knowledge of the author no published study has been identified in literature that performed a comparative analysis of different Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) programs offered by UAE universities. The aim of this work was to carry out a comprehensive analysis on all BPharm programs in the UAE and to describe the developments of BPharm curricula offered by UAE colleges
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