Strategies to improve enrolment in schools of pharmacy

Abstract

FIP AIM members benefit from FIP’s global credibility, extensive networking opportunities, its unsurpassed knowledge base and convening power. FIP AIM has prepared this handbook to provide you with an evidence-informed approach from AIM members to improve enrolment processes in schools of pharmacy and to support decision-making for enrolment strategies related to pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education. This handbook is a source of information not only for academic pharmacy leaders, but also for students who are considering a career in the pharmacy profession. As academic pharmacy leaders, it is our duty to ensure that students derive maximum benefit from their education. Therefore, the handbook enables the attainment of pharmacy education with real-life examples from AIM members. This handbook also provides a direct linkage with the FIP Development Goals (DGs), especially on DG 6 (Leadership development). The FIP DGs bring science, practice, workforce and education into one transformative framework for our members and the wider profession. It is in FIP’s mission to enable educational and scientific transformations to advance our profession. We believe, and have seen, that there can be no pharmacy practice without the pharmaceutical workforce. And there can be no pharmaceutical workforce without educational and scientific institutions. Having successful enrolment strategies is a key link in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education and contributes actively to better pharmacists. This handbook will support you to make significant contributions to academic pharmacy, to your institution and to your students’ careers, with an ultimate goal of transforming our profession.