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University signs pact on pharmacy clinical training

The agreement was signed by HMC’s managing director Hanan al-Kuwari and QU president Prof Sheikha Abdullah al-Misnad in the presence of senior officials and faculty from both sides. Under the agreement, students will attend a hospital for practical experience up to 24 weeks. According to officials, the programme will enhance the practice of pharmacy as a profession. A total of 35 female students are already participating in the programme and the first class will be graduating in July 2009, said professor and dean of College of Pharmacy Peter Jewesson. According to plans, a group of pharmacists at the HMC will be trained to become mentors for the students who will later train new trainees. In the welcome remark, Prof al-Misnad said that over the course of 20 years, HMC has been providing standard and quality training as well as good learning experience for the QU science students. “This is another milestone in our partnership with HMC as we hope it would advance practice in pharmacy, which is an important component of medicine,” she said. Prof al-Misnad said that HMC has played a pivotal role in accreditation of the institution’s bio-medical programme. Hanan al-Kuwari described the HMC’s partnership with QU as a ‘valued partnership’. “We are always willing to impart knowledge to our students as we are aware that training is an integral part of their learning and we believe this agreement will give them an opportunity to interact directly with our pharmacists and hopefully, they will be able to contribute meaningfully to the development of the profession,” she noted. Jewesson told Gulf Times that the pharmacy programme, which was upgraded to a college status in June this year have an all-female batch. “Each year we expect a maximum of 20 students but this is subject to increase as demand goes up or as our resources increase and at the moment we have 35 students in year one and two altogether,” he said. He hinted that the first class in June 2011 will be graduating with baccalaureate in Pharmacy and a second degree which will start before 2010 will have doctor of pharmacy graduates. Jewesson said: “During the five years of training, students will receive one month training each at the end of second and third year and in their final year, they will spend a whole semester of 16 weeks. So before they graduate from the baccalaureate programme, they will have 24 weeks of training.” So the training aims to ensure that they are immediately employed after the programme either in the hospital sector, community, industry or drug regulation like the NHA or Ministry of Health or private hospitals, Jewesson added Al Amal Hospital’s director of pharmacy Manal Zaidan said the agreement was a great opportunity for the profession in Qatar. “In Al Amal Hospital, we always tray to set standard in clinical practice and patient care and we are moving towards clinical pharmacy and patient care away from just dispensing medications, so we need to have a unique role in the hospital with the multi-discplinary team and the pharmacy programme here is really clinical-oriented,” she said.