Abstract
To ensure the sustainability of pharmacy practice and provide health for all, pharmacy as a profession must embrace the digital transformation that has been changing healthcare at a rapid pace. The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has conducted a global study on digital health in pharmacy education to describe the readiness, adaptability, and responsiveness of pharmacy education programmes to train the current and future pharmaceutical workforce on digital health and to identify the knowledge and skill gaps of the existing pharmaceutical workforce with regard to digital health. An online survey was distributed to collect feedback from academics, pharmacy schools, pharmacists, and pharmacy students. The findings showed that a large proportion of pharmacy schools do not offer any digital health education, and the skillsets and knowledge of how to apply digital health technologies to solve existing clinical problems and improve care have been identified as a gap. The future of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences is digital and exciting. A digitally enabled and agile pharmaceutical workforce will capitalise on the benefits of digital health to serve the higher purpose of providing good health and wellbeing for all, leaving no one behind. Therefore, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education should act now.
Highlights
The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has published the FIP Development Goals [1], which is a key resource for transforming the pharmacy profession over the decade globally, regionally, and nationally
The masterclass, which will be delivered online, is directed towards empowering pharmacy educators and colleagues involved in the training of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists to identify effective learning models that prepare graduates for the provision of a patient-centred digital pharmaceutical care that is driven by knowledge and fluency in the use of digital health tools
While the report focused on education and skills, the findings provide a broader view on the status of digital health in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences
Summary
The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has published the FIP Development Goals [1], which is a key resource for transforming the pharmacy profession over the decade globally, regionally, and nationally. They align with FIP’s mission to support global health by enabling the advancement of pharmaceutical practice, sciences, and education and are set to transform pharmacy in alignment with wider global imperatives underpinning the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FIP believes that it is imperative to bring pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy practice, and the pharmaceutical workforce and education together into one transformative framework for the profession to clearly set out the goals for development for the decade. We provide an overview of the key findings and provide a policy perspective on pharmacy education’s curricula and preparedness for a sustainable pharmacy profession
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