Abstract
New developments in the pharmacy education structure in Pakistan led to the formation of a separate department grouping high specialized services/subjects. However, inadequate planning has exposed a vacuity, as the educational authorities failed to develop a workforce before creating the specialized department. As a result, this vacuum is on the verge of being impinged by pharmacy professionals specialized in entirely different domains which would be detrimental to the future prospects of the development of pharmacy practice in Pakistan.
Highlights
The pharmaceutical academic environment of Pakistan braced itself to witness the birth of a separate domain for different specialties in the practice of pharmacy
Inadequate planning has exposed a vacuity, as the educational authorities failed to develop a workforce before creating the specialized department. This vacuum is on the verge of being impinged by pharmacy professionals specialized in entirely different domains which would be detrimental to the future prospects of the development of pharmacy practice in Pakistan
This concept was realized and refined by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan HEC [1] and Pharmacy Council of Pakistan PCP [2] and consists of a separate academic department covering a combination of different practicing areas, ranging from highly specialized patient health care oriented areas to drug promotion and marketing
Summary
The pharmaceutical academic environment of Pakistan braced itself to witness the birth of a separate domain for different specialties in the practice of pharmacy. This concept was realized and refined by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan HEC [1] and Pharmacy Council of Pakistan PCP [2] and consists of a separate academic department covering a combination of different practicing areas, ranging from highly specialized patient health care oriented areas to drug promotion and marketing. Since there is no pharmacy institute in Pakistan at present with a fully-fledged clinical pharmacy specialization program, it is evident that, apart from those who are specialized from abroad, there is not a single qualified trained individual in this domain. In a recent study it was evident that the professionals in the pharmacy practice department, in areas of clinical pharmacy and hospital, perceive foreign qualified clinical and hospital pharmacists as a potential threat to their existence in the department, which is evident as they are not specialized and cannot justify holding their positions [5,6]
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