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Reorganization and Updating the Pharmacy Education in Egypt: A Review Study on the Transition from B Pharm to Pharm D Degree

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Other aspects of medical and pharmaceutical sciences.

Abstract

During the last years, pharmaceutical industry and pharmacy profession have greatly expanded worldwide because of more modernization, digitalization, and globalization. In contrast, the situation in Egypt is very complex since the pharmacists' role is still underutilized either by the community or the health care system. Based on the modern global requirements of the pharmacy profession and an official analysis of the Egyptian pharmaceutical community performed has adopted the decision of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) for a transition in the pharmaceutical education in Egypt. This transition aimed at upgrading the educational and professional level of the graduates of the faculties of pharmacy. In addition, it included replacing of the current pharmacy bachelor degree (B Pharm) with the doctor of pharmacy (Pharm D) degree. The aim of this paper was to highlight the current scenario of pharmacy education in Egypt and the future challenges of pharmaceutical industry and pharmacy profession in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (FIR). Switching from B Pharm to Pharm D in Egypt is just the first step to introduce better quality of pharmaceutical education. However, the FIR may change the strategies of patient counselling, drug delivery and prescriptions dispensing to more computer-aided scenarios.

DOI

10.21608/jampr.2022.152370.1043

Keywords

Pharmacy, education, Pharm D, Digitalization, Fourth Industrial Revolution

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Salem

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Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy and , Faculty of Pharmacy, Menoufia University, Gamal Abd El Nasr st., Shibin Elkom, 32511, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

mohamed.salem@phrm.menofia.edu.eg

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First Name

Shahira

Last Name

Ezzat

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr El-Aini Street, Cairo 11562, Egypt

Email

shahira.ezzat@pharma.cu.edu.eg

City

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Orcid

0000-0003-2232-7357

First Name

Dalia

Last Name

Hamdan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Menoufia University, Gamal Abd El Nasr st., Shibin Elkom, 32511, Menoufia, Egypt

Email

dalia_hamdan@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Zayed

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University

Email

ahmed.zayed1@pharm.tanta.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0001-5747-6972

Volume

3

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

36997

Issue Date

2022-10-01

Receive Date

2022-07-25

Publish Date

2022-10-01

Page Start

53

Page End

59

Online ISSN

2636-4158

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Review Article

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2,287

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Publication Title

Journal of Advanced Medical and Pharmaceutical Research

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https://jampr.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023