Pharmacy educators and practitioners from all colleges of pharmacy in UAE were welcomed at the GMU campus for a one-day workshop on “Prescribing Skills Training and Assessment in Health Professions Education and Practice”.
The workshop was hosted by Gulf Medical University College of Pharmacy and delivered in partnership with the British Pharmacological Society (BPS). The conference aimed to educate participants on the future of healthcare systems and medical education, prescription writing skills, prescribing errors, and the BPS Framework of Prescribing Safety Training and Assessment.
The conference featured plenary presentations from speakers of Gulf Medical University – Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, and two keynote presentations by GMU Chancellor Hossam Hamdy and Prof. Simon Maxwell from the British Pharmacological Society (BPS). The presentations were followed by a Q&A panel discussion. The participants received hands-on training to using the online platform for the Prescribing Skills Assessment and navigating through its diverse features.
GMU faculty from the College of Pharmacy and Medicine shared with the participants important take home messages from their experience with the BPS prescribing skills assessment over the past few years.
Vice Chancellor for Quality & Institutional Effectiveness and Dean, College of Pharmacy, Dr. Sherief Khalifa commented: “The aim of this workshop is to unite faculty members from colleges of pharmacy across UAE on the need to integrate prescribing skills in our pharmacy curricula. This is a key initiative that pharmacy academia should take in order to ensure patient safety and advance the pharmacy profession to include independent prescribing for pharmacists”.
