FIP, as the global leader for pharmacy, has taken the initiative to build the “FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools”, which will be the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of pharmacy institutions from around the world. This global list is intended to guide all pharmacy stakeholders, from students to policymakers, in assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of pharmacy education strategies. The availability, completeness and quality of FIP’s World List of Pharmacy Schools means it will provide a unique source of information for pharmaceutical workforce policies, procedures and plans.
Further background on the FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools:
The FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools is an initiative to monitor pharmaceutical capacity and capability, similar to those of many other global organisations, such as the World Medical Schools List held by the World Medical Association. Given 2021 is the World Health Organization’s Year of Health and Care Workers, the need for our global organisations to demonstrate increased capacity in all health workers is key to ensure our professions are not further diminished but amplified.
FIP is a founder member of the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) with doctors, nurses, dentists, and physiotherapists. All WHPA members have been requested to feedback their schools’ status to the WHO as part of pandemic preparedness, and FIP having a list of accredited pharmacy schools will help to identify where schools may be needed and created to ensure long-term pharmaceutical workforce capacity.
PHEE “Kyiv Medical University”
Faculty of Pharmacy
The University is fully accredited and licensed according to Ukrainian legislation. Accreditation certificates issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine are available for three specialties: “Medicine”, “Dentistry” and “Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy”. Its first license, the University was granted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on March 4th, 1993. Now the license is termless (since June, 28th, 2015) and is available in digital format via the following link: https://mon.gov.ua/storage/app/media/pravo- diyalnosti/2019/05/medichniyuniversitet11.pdf. Accreditation certificates issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine are available for three specialties: “General Medicine”, “Dentistry” and “Pharmacy”. The information about the University is available on the official website at link: http://kmu.edu.ua/en.
KMU has three campuses - one in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and the two others are in the largest cities of Ukraine, Kharkov (https://khim.kmu.edu.ua/) and Dnipro (http://dimh.kmu.edu.ua/). Besides this, the university sends its students to Germany, Poland, Turkey and Israel, for training and internship. The university has employed well- qualified professionals in their respective fields who strive hard to train and bring the best out of students. It delivers the following courses to the students who come from different destinations: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE (MD) PROGRAMME, course for six years; DENTIST for five years; PHARMACIST for 5 years, and a one-year preparatory course in Ukrainian language for international students. Top features of Kyiv Medical University are - low cost of education as compared to other universities in Europe, and a strong foundation of research and development. Courses are taught also in the English language, and the degrees issued are recognized all over the world.