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Pharmaceutical Forum of the Americas Meeting 13 th September 2017 Room 2 Seoul Convention Center Executive Committee President: Dr. Eduardo Savio (Uruguay) Vice-President: Dr. Laura Raccagni (Argentina) Treasurer: Q.F. Yolanda Zapata
13th September 2017 Room 2 – Seoul Convention Center
Costa Rica Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Brasil
A legal framework that: Defines who can practice pharmacy; Defines the scope of pharmacy practice; Ensures the integrity of the supply chain and the quality of medicines. A workforce framework that: Ensures the competence of pharmacy staff through CPD or CE programes, Defines the personnel resources needed to provide GPP. An economic framework that: Provides sufficient resources and incentives that are effectively used to ensure the activities undertaken in GPP.
To promote the development of pharmaceutical services based on primary healthcare, by building capacities on pharmaceutical services providers, leaders and managers.
services in their country or locality.
pharmaceutical services.
initiated an active participation on this training proposal addressed to pharmacists in the Americas region with the fourth edition of the Virtual
Services based on Primary Healthcare to Managers” was offered on two modalities:
– With tutor (along three editions) – By self-study, under two options: without or with intervention project (one edition in each case).
In both cases, it was used the Virtual Campus for Public Health Platform from PAHO.
The three virtual courses with coaching were developed as is described below:
The self-study course without intervention project had three months duration September - December 2016 The self-study course with intervention project had an extra module which took place on 2017.
15 participants from the same country if possible.
together to develop the final intervention project. They identified and developed a proposal with the aim of promoting or developing or strengthening the insertion of PS based on PHC in the health system at country level.
different countries, under the supervision of one tutor, sharing the same aim as above described.
national organizations the call was internally processed.
study course without intervention project. There was no selection done and all the registered participants were able to follow the activity.
self-study course with final intervention project because a limited number
approved the self-study course.
Number of selected pharmacists, discriminated by country:
135 37 30 27 14 27 115 41 17 17 9 21 10 107 25 17 30 03 15 16 01 Number of final intervention projects elaborated by country:
22 5 5 5 2 5 20 7 2 3 2 4 2 19 3 1 2 6 1 3 3 Electronic publication of final intervention projects Yes Yes Yes Number of final intervention projects presented in a Symposium organized by the PFA 8 final projects were selected; 7 were presented at the 18° Congress of South American Pharmaceutical Federation (FEFAS) held in Rio de Janeiro, October 2015. 7 final projects were selected and presented at the Argentinean Pharmaceutical Congress/76 FIP Congress, held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) August 2016. 8 final projects were selected to be presented at national or regional congresses: 4 at Peru (FEFAS, Lima, October 2017) 4 at Brazil (Conselho Federal de Farmácia, November 2017) Source: Data from final reports of the IV, V and VI Virtual Courses, elaborated by the academic coordination.
400 places were proposed to train pharmacists through this methodology, according to the following distribution:
Virtual course with coaching Proposed Implemented Achieved IV edition 135 130 96% V edition 120 115 96% VI edition 145 96 66% Total 400 341 85%
Expenses Budget: US $12.000,00 $500,00 2 registration fees at RioPharma Congress/FEFAS Congress, Río de Janeiro (Brazil), October 2015 to participants who presented their final intervention projects at the Symposium organized by the Forum $6000,00 Support to national member organizations to pay 8 tutors, V edition. $3000,00 Support to academic coordinator, VI edition. $2500,00 IT support, VI edition. $12000,00 Total
NMO PAHO FIP PFA
approach to Pharmaceutical Services have kept working within this concept, and how they have affected pharmacy practice in their countries.
importance of pharmaceutical services based on primary health care and creating ways to disseminate these concepts beyond the "boundaries" of the course (i.e., how the course has contributed to raising awareness about pharmaceutical services among the public, the profession and policy-makers).
course.
post-graduate education, at universitary level or at the professional
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