A Call to Action to Transform Pharmacy Education and Practice in the Arab World

Abstract

Al-Ghananeem and colleagues recently evaluated health care and pharmacy education in some countries of the Arab world focusing on clinical pharmacy education and practice. They identified six key strategies to meet the patient care and educational needs of these countries: implementing competency-based pharmacy education, improving learning outcomes and teaching methods, strengthening experiential and interprofessional education, requiring continuous professional development as part of licensure renewal, developing regional accreditation standards, and creating more appealing job opportunities for new graduates.1 We believe this commentary fills a gap in the literature related to pharmacy education and practice in the Arab world, and as the authors suggested, the recommendations provided “can apply to other regions of the world as well.”