Autor(es): Miranda, Joana P ; Batista, Mariana ; Duarte, Cristina ; Sanches, Tatiana
Data: 2022
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/54584
Origem: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Assunto(s): Pharmaceutical sciences; Higher education; Profession challenges; Graduate programs
Introduction: The higher education of future pharmacists offers a wide, comprehensive range of education and education to accommodate a lifelong learning perspective and eventual learning along with professional mobility. However, it is necessary to ensure that students acquire, upon leaving university, competencies for the exercise of their future profession (1,2). Despite pharma's recent change in approach to drug discovery and development, pharmaceutical sciences graduate programs in Europe are mostly maintaining traditional methods for master's and doctoral student education. As such, the present study seeks to understand the current training in a pharmacy in the face of the challenges of the profession Method: For this purpose, the General Level Framework directive is used to perform a systematic assessment of the level of training perceived by 4th-year students of pharmaceutical sciences in Portugal. Results and Conclusions: Our study reinforces the importance of developing transversal skills focused on the user, mainly for pharmaceutical sciences students, emphasizing the importance of basic technical and scientific knowledge, articulated with communication and interaction skills. We recommend that our pharmaceutical sciences graduate programs take a proactive leadership role in meeting the needs of our future graduates and employers. Moreover, our graduate programs should include the innovation and collaboration that our industry also requires to be successful and relevant in this century.
