2022 Volume 6 Article ID: 2022-040
This study reviews the pharmacy education systems of Canada, the United States of America, and England, which are countries renowned for their advanced curriculum of clinical pharmacy education. Information was collected mainly from the home pages of each pharmacy school and in part through personal communications with some academic staff of the school, including general information on the pharmacy education system in the context of post-secondary education system, admission to pharmacy schools, curriculum of course work and experiential education, careers of faculty members, and graduate school system. In addition, as pharmacy education in a country is closely related with the competence of pharmacists in the country, the latter was also reviewed as background information. Based on the comparative review and analysis of the collected information, points useful to improve and further develop pharmacy education in Japan is discussed.
