Research, Development and Evaluation Strategies for Pharmaceutical Education and the Workforce: a Global Report
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Research, development and evaluation strategies for pharmaceutical education and the workforce: A global report 2017 Copyright © 2017 International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) 1 | Research, Development and Evaluation Strategies Colophon Copyright© 2017 International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP) Andries Bickerweg 5 2517 JP The Hague The Netherlands ................www.fip.org - [email protected].............. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be stored in any retrieval system or transcribed by any form or means — eletronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise — without citation of the source. FIP shall not be held liable for any damages incurred resulting from the use of any data and information from this report. All measures have been taken to ensure accuracy of the data and information presented in this report. This report is available for electronic download from: www.fip.org/educationreports Editors: Lina R. Bader, FIP Education (FIPEd) Project Coordinator and Researcher Ian Bates, Director of the FIPEd Development Team, FIP-UCL Collaborating Centre, University College London, School of Pharmacy ISBN 978-0-902936-41-6 Design: Tiago Tomé Recommended citation: International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). Research, development and evaluation strategies for pharmaceutical education and the workforce: A global report. The Hague: International Pharmaceutical Federation; 2017. Research, Development and Evaluation Strategies | 2 Contents Foreword 3 Executive summary 4 Part 1 Introduction and background 6 Part 2 Progress towards the Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals (PWDGs) 9 Part 3 Strategies for advancing the global pharmaceutical workforce agenda 31 3.1 Evaluation and impact for global workforce development 31 3.2 From workforce intelligence to workforce development 37 3.3 Building academic capacity and the academic workforce 40 3.4 Leadership development: preparing the pharmaceutical workforce 45 Part 4 Research and development in technology-driven education 52 Part 5 Summary and conclusions 57 Annexes 59 Annex 1 Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals (PWDGs) 59 Annex 2 PWDGs alignment with global health workforce strategies 64 Annex 3 Overview of FIPEd tools 66 Annex 4 Acknowledgements 70 3 | Research, Development and Evaluation Strategies Foreword The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) hosted the first Global Conference on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Education in Nanjing, China, on 7 & 8 November 2016. The global conference was an exceptional event that gathered pharmacy leaders from around the world to create a globally shared vision for transformative pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education. Following an extensive consensus-based consultation process, three critical documents that set the future milestones for workforce development through education were adopted at the global conference: (1) a Global Vision for Education and Workforce, (2) Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals, and (3) Statements on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Education ("the Nanjing Statements"). The global vision describes the future directions of our profession and how education can support the evolution of science and practice. A set of 13 Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals aim to facilitate the implementation of the global vision through a series of measurable, feasible and tangible goals. The Nanjing Statements are a set of 67 statements that describe an envisioned future for education, to enable the enhancement of professional education standards worldwide. A full report of the global conference, “Transforming Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Education in the Context of Workforce Development”, was launched in May 2017. Through the report, FIP calls on leaders in pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical education and other key stakeholders to support and advocate the implementation of these key outcomes in their countries. Under the aegis of FIP Education (FIPEd), FIP is committed to inform, guide and support the strategic planning and implementation of the outcomes to facilitate the transformation of the global pharmaceutical workforce in line with overall health workforce strategies promoted by national and international agencies. Research, development and evaluation are key mechanisms for strategy implementation and this report widens the evidence base for research, development and evaluation strategies for pharmaceutical education and the workforce. With evidence-based expert recommendations and comprehensive case studies from 21 countries around the world, the report provides guidance on aligning national research, development and evaluation projects with the global vision and Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals. This document is intended for all members of the pharmaceutical workforce, pharmacy leaders, governments and other stakeholders to catalyse needs-based planning, priority setting and forward action towards implementing the global vision. The report is also intended as a tool for member organisations to help prioritise and facilitate the adoption of the Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals in the context of their national strategies on health and workforce development. FIPEd — armed with a clear, shared global vision — is committed now more than ever to advance the global pharmaceutical workforce in the context of education and training. The first FIPEd publication following the launch of the Nanjing roadmap, this report aims to enable global action to transform the pharmaceutical workforce in line with the newly adopted global roadmap. William N. Charman, BPharm, PhD FIP Education (FIPEd) Executive Committee Chair Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Research, Development and Evaluation Strategies | 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. Key messages 1.6 The pharmaceutical workforce needs to be continually monitored and assessed in order to evaluate various 1.1 Healthcare access and delivery faces significant capacity challenges; however further work is also global and local challenges; rising demand, increasing needed to develop professional, economic and co-morbidities and demand for medicines expertise disease indicators to better describe the impact of particularly stand out for our profession. Investing in the pharmaceutical workforce. Academic capacity in the scale up of the health workforce around the world particular, and the training of the next generation of to meet this general demand is a clear objective shared scientists and teachers, is an essential component of collectively by the World Health Organization, United these workforce intelligence objectives. Nations agencies, and other global leadership bodies. 1.7 The literature on leadership development in pharmacy 1.2 Research, development and evaluation mechanisms is under-researched and little is known about the are integral to achieving progress on our Global Vision global status of pharmacy leadership strategies; for Education and Workforceª and the Pharmaceutical paradoxically, leadership development remains a Workforce Development Goalsb (PWDGs). Global challenge, and concerted action is required to drive engagement to make research, development and evidence-generation in this area. Country-level evaluation strategies an important consideration leadership bodies should ensure the creation of clear for implementing the pharmaceutical workforce and accessible leadership development programmes development agenda is a critical next step for our and opportunities for their pharmaceutical workforce; profession. this report provides good examples where this has been the case. Additionally, implementation of 1.3 The first FIPEd publication following the launch of the leadership development strategies should integrate Nanjing roadmap, this report starts the discussion with other aspects of workforce development such as to share and evaluate the state of global research, academic capacity, workforce diversity and equality, development and evaluation mechanisms that will and quality assurance. support national leadership bodies and member organisations in the effective implementation of a 1.8 Educational research and evaluation agenda in needs-based pharmaceutical workforce development pharmacy needs strengthening and it is clear that roadmap guided by the Nanjing outcomes. better ways of evaluating the impact of technology- driven education need to be developed and used more 1.4 Data was collected from 21 countries around the routinely by education providers. world to better understand their national-level research, development and evaluation strategies 1.9 This report provides a starting point for describing our for the pharmaceutical workforce and how they are current global baseline in a broad context of workforce aligned with the PWDGs. The PWDGs are aimed to be and educational development. Similarly, within the a set of measurable, feasible and achievable goals. context of a valid global vision for transforming The ability to align national strategies with the goals the workforce we should be identifying our current show that they can be measurable. Collectively, the position, across all of the PWDGs, in order to plan for high alignment between current strategies, projects structured collective development. and initiatives demonstrate that the goals are also achievable. While progress towards achieving the 1.10 It is also clear that for some PWDGs, there is a wider PWDGs