Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access

Atta Abbas

Publications

• Research Article
  The Brain Drain of Qualified Clinical Pharmacy Professionals in Pakistan’s Pharmacy Education: A Retrospective Study
  Author(s): Atta Abbas and Nabeel KhanAtta Abbas and Nabeel Khan
  
  Introduction: The pharmacy education environment of a developing country like Pakistan is on course of development. Progress was made in 2004 to incorporate the courses of clinical pharmacy in the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) degree with a health care insight. Failure to develop a teaching workforce prior to initiation of the above said plan rendered clinical pharmacy to be taught by non-clinical pharmacy professionals who have impinged the course throughout country’s pharmacy academia. They assume the foreign qualified clinical pharmacy professionals as a professional threat. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in Pharmacy teaching universities of Karachi, Pakistan. Data of the last 10 years of different pharmacy teaching institutes in Karachi, Pakistan was sought. Results: A total of 4 private and 1 pu.. Read More»
  

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