Considering Graduate Employability When Developing the Undergraduate Pharmacy Course Curriculum
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Abstract
The objective of the current study was to improve graduate employability in alignment with the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry, to assess the existing undergraduate curriculum, and to reformulate it via a survey of professionals from industrial and academic sectors, excluding pharmacy and clinical experts. We prepared a questionnaire with 15 multiple-choice questions to get the perspectives of four groups of professionals who work in the pharmaceutical industry: industrial, academic, clinical, and professionals who are not pharmacists. Sampling was conducted by direct face-to-face interviews with industrial and academic professionals, as well as pharmacy postgraduates, and indirectly via electronic mail services. The seventy-eight samples from human participants were organized into four groups and sorted by preference (a), (b), (c), and (d) from multiple-choice questions. The data underwent statistical analysis for Standard Deviation (S.D.), Standard Error Mean (SEM), Variance (V) as the square of S.D., and the computed F value as a ratio of Variances. It is stressed that the current curriculum needs to be changed, that the pharmacy curriculum needs to be linked to a health science university, that degrees should be given as B. Pharm. (Pharmaceutical Industry) and B. Pharm. (Clinical Industry), and that teachers should get enough exposure to the industry so they can teach students about new developments in the field and technology. This will help students move from the college lab to the real world.
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