Open AccessStrengthening Pharmacy, Globally. Looking Outside the Box
Author(s) -
Jimmy Shangala Mwawaka
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
innovations in pharmacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2155-0417
DOI - 10.24926/iip.v8i1.505
Subject(s) - professionalization , pharmacy , pharmacy practice , autonomy , medical education , alternative medicine , medicine , field (mathematics) , engineering ethics , public relations , political science , nursing , engineering , pathology , mathematics , pure mathematics , law
To strengthen pharmacy practice globally, new and more efficient strategies are needed. Pharmacy has traditionally viewed medicine as its reference group. This commentary questions the appropriateness of medicine as a benchmark for pharmacy and suggests the need for new thinking on the professionalization of pharmacy. Useful lessons from outside the medical field, in matters of professional training, practice and autonomy, are highlighted. The commentary concludes that, strategies that focus on the consumer are more effective in transforming practice globally.
Type: Commentary