The PHAR-QA project : competency framework for pharmacy practice—first steps, the results of the European network Delphi round 1

Atkinson, Jeffrey (author), De Paepe, Kristien (author), Sánchez Pozo, Antonio (author), Rekkas, Dimitrios (author), Volmer, Daisy (author), Hirvonen, Jouni (author), Božič, Borut (author), Skowron, Agnieska (author), Mircioiu, Constantin (author), Marcincal, Annie (author), Koster, Andries (author), Wilson, Keith A. (author), van Schravendijk, Chris (author)

PHAR-QA, funded by the European Commission, is producing a framework of competences for pharmacy practice. The framework is in line with the EU directive on sectoral professions and takes into account the diversity of the pharmacy profession and the on-going changes in healthcare systems (with an increasingly important role for pharmacists), and in the pharmaceutical industry. PHAR-QA is asking academia, students and practicing pharmacists to rank competences required for practice. The results show that competences in the areas of “drug interactions”, “need for drug treatment” and “provision of information and service” were ranked highest whereas those in the areas of “ability to design and conduct research” and “development and production of medicines” were ranked lower. For the latter two categories, industrial pharmacists ranked them higher than did the other five groups.

• Language: English
• Keywords: pharmacy, competence, education, practice
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FFA - Faculty of Pharmacy
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: Str. 307-329
• Numbering: Vol. 3, iss. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-130981
• ISSN on article: 2226-4787
• DOI: 10.3390/pharmacy3040307
• COBISS.SI-ID: 108467971
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Pharmacy - A Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice
• Shortened title: Pharmacy
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2226-4787
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3457137

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.12.2015

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: farmacija, izobraževanje, pedagoška praksa

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Lifelong Learning programme
• Project number: 527194-LLP-1-2012-1-BE-ERASMUS-EMCR