AKUH’s Pharmacy Trainee Programme Receives the Coveted American Society of Well being Techniques Pharmacists Accreditation.
Turns into the most important Programme of its sort on the earth and the primary in Pakistan.
Advances AKUH’s pharmacy traineeship Programme to a residency mannequin.
Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) The Aga Khan College Hospital’s flagship Pharmacy Trainee Programme has obtained the coveted American Society of Well being-System Pharmacists (ASHP) accreditation for Worldwide Pharmacy Observe Residency Programmes (IPPR), changing into the primary tutorial medical centre exterior the USA, the third worldwide hospital and the primary in Pakistan, to obtain the celebrated three-year accreditation.
This accreditation helps increase the requirements of coaching for pharmacists, who supply crucial providers in affected person care. Effectively-dispensed medicines guarantee their greatest use and efficacy with skilled administration of the affected person’s response in addition to drugs interplay. With this accreditation, the AKUH Pharmacy Residency Programme has change into an internationally acknowledged coaching web site and can function a task mannequin for producing exemplary practitioners, who will positively influence the observe of pharmacy in Pakistan.
The one-year pharmacy traineeship programme, being supplied at AKUH since 1990, has greater than 800 alumni rendering skilled pharmacy providers, and performing as pioneers within the discipline in Pakistan. The accreditation additionally advances AKUH’s traineeship programme to a residency mannequin with worldwide recognition, becoming a member of a neighborhood of over 2,000 websites internationally with accredited programmes.
As a part of the accreditation course of, AKUH’s pharmacy traineeship programme complied with stringent competencies, instructional targets, and goals, together with greater than 100 ASHP residency studying goals, and greater than 200 measurable components.
ASHP requirements cowl basic pharmacy observe areas equivalent to Observe Basis Expertise, Drug Info Remedy Coverage, and Drug Security, Observe Administration and Management, Affected person care, Schooling of others, and Challenge administration.
Congratulating the pharmacy staff on attaining this milestone, Dr Farhat Abbas, Interim CEO AKU Well being Companies Pakistan, stated, “the ASHP accreditation is a testomony to the truth that our sufferers are on the forefront of every little thing we do,” including that, “this accreditation just isn’t solely a feather within the cap for AKUH but additionally for the nation.”
Lauding the groups for his or her dedication and laborious work, Dr Adil Haider, Dean Medical Faculty, AKU, stated, “By getting ASHP-accredited, AKU has demonstrated its persevering with dedication to advancing pharmacy observe and offering high quality affected person care,” including that the accreditation will function means to undertake and implement a good larger high quality pharmacy observe and an enhanced residency programme.
Highlighting the influence of the accreditation, Syed Shamim Raza, Director of Pharmacy Companies, Pakistan, stated, “We set ourselves the objective to develop our pharmacy practices additional to meet AKUH’s imaginative and prescient of elevating the requirements of healthcare in Pakistan and we achieved this objective via the ASHP accreditation which marks us as a world-class establishment for hospital pharmacy observe and coaching, guaranteeing that our sufferers profit from worldwide greatest practices of pharmacy.”
ASHP is a US-based skilled group that represents pharmacists serving as affected person care suppliers in hospitals and different healthcare settings. They consider that hospitals with accredited pharmacy residency programmes are publicly demonstrating their dedication to advancing pharmacy observe and offering high-quality affected person care. The group’s practically 75,000 members embrace pharmacists, pupil pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.
Being one of the crucial revolutionary and complete institutional pharmacy networks in Pakistan, AKUH pharmacies are trusted for delivering high-quality and genuine medicines, via a sturdy staff of extremely certified pharmacists and technicians. Our pharmacy residency programme, is the most important ASHP-accredited programme on the earth and goals to develop competent pharmacists, who’re outfitted with the required abilities {and professional} data to boost the requirements of pharmacy observe in Pakistan.
