A European Competence Framework for Industrial Pharmacy Practice in Biotechnology

Pharmacy

Jeffrey Atkinson⁴  Pat Crowley⁵  Kristien De Paepe⁹  Brian Gennery⁷  Andries Koster¹⁰  Luigi Martini⁷  Vivien Moffat²  Jane Nicholson¹¹  Gunther Pauwels⁶  Giuseppe Ronsisvalle¹  Vitor Sousa^3,4  Chris van Schravendijk⁹  Keith Wilson^4,8 

[1] Pharmacy Department, Universitá di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy; E-Mail:;European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), Rue du Trône, 108, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; E-Mail:;Areta International, via Roberto LePetit, 21040 Gerenzano, Italy; E-Mail:;Pharmacolor Consultants Nancy (pcn-consultants), 12 rue de Versigny, 54600 Villers, France;Callum Consultancy, 571 Berwyn Baptist Road, Devon, PA 19333, USA; E-Mail:;Genzyme Flanders, Cipalstraat 8, 2440 Geel, Belgium; E-Mail:;Department of Pharmacy, Waterloo Campus, King’s College London, 150 Stamford Street SE1, 9NH, London, UK; E-Mails:;Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B75 6D9 Birmingham, UK; E-Mail:;Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium; E-Mail:;European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP), Department Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80082, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;European Industrial Pharmacists’ Group (EIPG), 4 avenue Ruysdael, Paris, France; E-Mail:

关键词: education;    pharmacy;    industry;    Europe;    biotechnology;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pharmacy3030101

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The PHAR-IN (“Competences for industrial pharmacy practice in biotechnology”) looked at whether there is a difference in how industrial employees and academics rank competences for practice in the biotechnological industry. A small expert panel consisting of the authors of this paper produced a biotechnology competence framework by drawing up an initial list of competences then ranking them in importance using a three-stage Delphi process. The framework was next evaluated and validated by a large expert panel of academics (n = 37) and industrial employees (n = 154). Results show that priorities for industrial employees and academics were similar. The competences for biotechnology practice that received the highest scores were mainly in:

“Research and Development”,

‘“Upstream” and “Downstream” Processing’,

“Product development and formulation”,

“Aseptic processing”,

“Analytical methodology”,

“Product stability”, and

“Regulation”.

The main area of disagreement was in the category “Ethics and drug safety” where academics ranked competences higher than did industrial employees.

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