# \[e-drug\] Undergraduate pharmacotherapy teaching (cont'd) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [February 28, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-undergraduate-pharmacotherapy-teaching-contd/7479 "2000-02-28T21:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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E-drug: Undergraduate pharmacotherapy teaching (cont'd) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All, Rina has formulated a lot of questions about the pharmacy education, and rightfully so. While the medical education has developed into problem based teaching in many countries, the pharmacy education has not followed. One of the reasons that this has not happened is without doubt the quite drastic changes in the pharmacy profession which have occurred since the beginning of this century. The basic sciences have become much less important for the majority of the students, but of course it will be hard to find teachers in especially the classic basic sciences (anorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biology and pharmacognosy) who will acknowledge this fact and they struggle for survival. In the mean time in most schools of pharmacy there is a battle going on to find time to teach applied sciences, especially pharmacotherapy and applied integrated pharmaceutics like clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical care. One of the other reasons which are often mentioned for the slow changes in the pharmacy curriculum, is that the pharmaceutical industry still needs the chemical and biochemical experts which are currently only being educated by pharmacy faculties. The latter seems not a real reason. In most schools of pharmacy over 90% of the students finally will become community pharmacists. It seems much more important for society that this 90% will be able to provide their services in a scientific responsible way, than that the remaining 5-10% is highly educated. An early split in the education therefore often has been proposed, but can only occasionally be found. The European association of Faculties of Pharmacy is currently trying to develop a new, pharmaceutical care based curriculum. The president of the organisation is Prof. A.T. Florence from the London School of Pharmacy. He will certainly have much more information on this important topic. Foppe J.W.F. van Mil, PhD/PharmD Margrietlaan 1, 9471 CT Zuidlaren The Netherlands Tel +31 50 4094766 Fax +31 50 4090732 e-mail: jwfvmil@wxs.nl -- Send mail for the `E-Drug' conference to `e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'. Mail administrative requests to `majordomo@usa.healthnet.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: `owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'.