Systems for Quality Assurance in Pharmacy Education and Training in the European Union

Pharmacy

Jeffrey Atkinson⁹  Bart Rombaut¹  Antonio Sánchez Pozo³  Dimitrios Rekkas⁵  Peep Veski⁶  Jouni Hirvonen¹⁰  Borut Bozic⁷  Agnieska Skowron⁸  Constantin Mircioiu²  Annie Marcincal^4,9 

[1] European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, Brussels 1090, Belgium; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest (UMFCD-B), Dionisie Lupu 37, Bucharest 020021, Romania; E-Mail:;Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada (UGR), Campus Universitario de la Cartuja s/n, Granada 18701, Spain; E-Mail:;Université de Lille 2 (UL), Lille 59000, France; E-Mail:;School of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University Athens, (UoA), Panepistimiou 30, Athens 10679, Greece; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, University of Tartu (UT), Nooruse 1, Tartu 50411, Estonia; E-Mail:;Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubjana (ULFFA), Askerceva cesta 7, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, Jagiellonian University (JUMC), UL. Golebia 24, Krakow 31-007, Poland; E-Mail:;School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University (AU), Birmingham, B4 7ET, England; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, University of Helsinki (UH), Yliopistonkatu 4, P.O. Box 33-4, Helsinki 00014, Finland; E-Mail:

关键词: pharmacy;    education;    quality assurance;    competences;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pharmacy2010017

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

With the changes in the Bologna process and the European directive on sectoral professions, the education and training of the pharmacists in the European Higher Education Area is moving towards a quality system based on competences. In this paper we analyze the existing quality assurance and accreditation systems in 10 countries and examine how far these systems have evolved from a resources and curriculum basis towards a competences basis. This is the first step towards the goal of the PHAR-QA project: establishment of a European quality assurance system based on competences. Existing systems of quality assurance for pharmacy education and teaching are based mainly on resources and management not competences. Furthermore, they are national, obligatory, and do not recognize all the current activities of the pharmacists. The PHAR-QA system that will be developed by the consortium of the same name will be based on competences; it will be European, consultative, and will encompass pharmacy practice in a wide sense.

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