Pharmacy Education Innovation in Pharmacy Practice

OBJECTIVE To learn from innovative strategies for pharmacy education in pharmacy practice at home and abroad,and provide references for the improvement pharmacy education management in China. METHODS Innovative strategies for pharmacy education were retrieved and analyzed. RESULTS For the processes pharmacy education,analytic reasoning skills,intra-lecture assessment and adaptive teaching were used. For curriculum,differences among countries were compared and innovation aspects were pointed out. For information technology,online global pharmacy education community,virtual pharmacy and educational virtual resource were explored. For the impact pharmacy education innovation on clinical practice,influence on health related quality life in HIV / AIDS patients and an inter-disciplinary collaborative learning were introduced. CONCLUSION More research on the reform pharmacy education is warranted to better pharmacists' role in the clinical practice.