Launch of the FIP AIM Academic Capacity Assessment Tool

Attendance an online digital event on Jan. 24, 2024 entitled “Manage "Advancing future pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences: Launch of the FIP AIM academic capacity assessment tool"”. The event was offered by International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). 

Description: To celebrate the International Day of Education, the present webinar on January 24 marked the initiation of the “FIP AIM academic capacity assessment tool”, underlined the critical function of educational progress in encouraging societal peace and improvement. The present event initiated a strategic tool by FIP AIM, planned to reinforce academic scope in pharmacy education, together with universal workforce and healthcare development goals. Experts discussed approaches to empower educators and develop the effect of their schemes. Basic domains from the tool identified, explaining its effective implementation to confirm education meets the evolving requirements of the pharmacy profession and participates in developing the health outcomes.

Moderator:

- Ozge Ozer, Educational Partnership Manager FIP, The Netherlands.

Facilitator:

- Genuine Agakhan Desireh, Educational partnerships and project manager FIP, Kenya.

Panellists:

- Ralph Altiere, Dean, Professor University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, USA. 

- Lilian Azzopardi, Head, Department of Pharmacy University of Malta, Malta.  

- Pierre Moreau, Dean FIP, Kuwait University, Kuwait. 

- Renukha Sellappans, Head of School School of Pharmacy, Taylor’s University, Malaysia.

- Lisa Hong, Associate Professor and Director of Interprofessional Education Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy, USA.

- Rajani Shakya, Associate Professor Kathmandu University, Nepal.

- Mohamed Baraka, Dean Fatima College of Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates.

- Shaun E. Gleason, Assoc. Prof. and Asst. Dean for Distance Degrees and Programmes University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, USA. 

- Abby Kahaleh, PhD, MS, BPharm, MPH, FAACP Tenured Associate Professor for Clinical and Administrative Sciences; Board of Trustees Faculty Roosevelt University, United States.

- Hanan Refaat, Dean Future University, Egypt.