Education Symposium

Over the past several years, pharmacy curricula across the globe have come under the influence of many developments. The explosion of biomedical and pharmaceutical knowledge brought with the unravelling of the human genome, coupled with greater societal needs and expectations placed on pharmacists by an increasingly complex healthcare system, has required changes in the way pharmacists are trained and the skills they bring to the healthcare circle. Competency based education with an emphasis on patient-oriented practice and accountability are the current and future trends in pharmacy education.
Worldwide pharmacy schools face a tremendous challenge in rapidly adapting to these exciting yet sometimes conflicting developments. The intention of the PSWC Education Symposium is to bring together pharmaceutical scientists active in academia to discuss these challenges, possible solutions, and of course the biggest dilemma: How to promote state-of the-art pharmaceutical sciences in curricula when at the same time there is a great societal demand to shift from product-oriented to patient-oriented pharmacy education and practice.
The programme will consist of plenary lectures and round table discussions, offering ample opportunity for interaction. In addition, participants are invited to join in a guided tour of the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Utrecht, a Department which has recently seen a radical change in its curriculum and organisational structure focussing on problem-oriented and student centred educational methods, in order to optimally prepare future practitioners and scientists.

For whom?

Academic colleagues who are interested in pharmaceutical curriculum development in particular for 6 years programmes.

How do delegates get there?

Bus transport to Utrecht will leave at 9:00 hrs sharp! in front of: Hotel Novotel Amsterdam, Europaboulevard 10, Amsterdam.
A hostess/student with the sign “Workshop: Pharmaceutical Curriculum Development: an evolutionary or a revolutionary process?” will be present on the spot to guide the delegates.
After the satellite, there is bus transport back to Hotel Novotel in Amsterdam.