Integrated (modular) education model in pharmacy: The Anadolu University case

Abstract

Perhaps being the most multidisciplinary among all professional sciences is pharmacy. It is a perfect amalgam of quite different scientific disciplines. Every scientific branch of pharmacy is an applied science, and almost every year, very innovative developments and changes occur in these scientific branches. Therefore, pharmacy education is among the issues preserving importance all over the world. Both phar2 macy students and diverse stakeholders in different working areas of pharmacy must be satisfied with the knowledge on continuous innovations. Therefore, pharmacy education must be handled with sensitivity and all the knowledge and skills acquired during the education must be “integrated delicately”. Due to this highly dynamic characteristic of pharmacy education, there is a need for the continuous renewal of curricula and the creation of better models in pharmacy education. The creation of core competency programs (EczÇEP22015 and EczÇEP22019) is a manifestation of this need. Nowadays, pharmacy education is competency based in Türkiye as well. The only education model that can fully meet all these requirements is integrated education. It is impossible to meet these requirements with departments acting like inde2 pendent republics. Providing “horizontal” and “vertical” integration of knowledge, integrated education ensures the most important scientific properties of today’s science: “Multidisciplinary”, “Interdisciplinary” and “Transdisciplinary” thinking and working. Integrated education models in other health professions (Medicine and Dentistry) can provide this for years. Therefore, the Anadolu University Faculty of Pharmacy switched to the spiral integrated education model (modular system) in 2017. Students have now started to graduate and enter professional life.

Keywords

• Pharmacy education
• Curricular integration
• Curriculum development
• Integrated education
• Modular education

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