The University of Georgia, College of Pharmacy, Athens, Georgia
Northeastern University, School of Pharmacy, Boston, Massachusetts.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2022 Nov;86(8):ajpe8931. doi: 10.5688/ajpe8931. Epub 2022 Jan 10.
Pharmacy education faces an upcoming revision of accreditation standards designed to outline degree program requirements for training the next generation of pharmacists. At the same time, pharmacy educators are increasingly expected to integrate multiple other educational frameworks and recommendations from distinct groups into their curricula. With this list of expectations constantly expanding and changing, education leaders are forced to spend valuable time and resources trying to satisfy "checklists" instead of enhancing their programs. The following commentary discusses concerns about the growing complexity of the standards and frameworks used in the accreditation process, overlap and redundancy in these various requirements, and relevant comparisons between pharmacy and medical education. We outline recommendations regarding purposeful integration of frameworks with the goal of simplifying accreditation requirements and enhancing program flexibility to deliver innovative, high-quality curricula.
药学教育即将迎来认证标准的修订，旨在为培养下一代药师勾勒出学位项目的要求。与此同时，药学教育工作者越来越被期望将多个其他教育框架和来自不同群体的建议融入到课程中。随着期望清单的不断扩大和变化，教育领导者不得不花费宝贵的时间和资源来满足“清单”，而不是改进他们的课程。本评论讨论了对认证过程中使用的标准和框架日益复杂的担忧，这些不同要求之间的重叠和冗余，以及药学教育和医学教育之间的相关比较。我们概述了关于有目的整合框架的建议，旨在简化认证要求并增强课程灵活性，以提供创新的高质量课程。
