Working With Others

FIP Development Goal 8 Education & Workforce Element
Globally, we will have:
Clearly identifiable elements of collaborative working and interprofessional education and training which should be a feature of all workforce development programmes and policies.
Mechanisms
- Evidence of policy formation to demonstrate how healthcare professionals can develop and engage in partnerships to achieve better health outcomes.
- Develop education and training strategies and programmes to ensure collaboration within the pharmaceutical workforce and training on medicines for other healthcare professionals.
- Ideally, this should be linked with formal professional development activities.
FIP Development Goal 8 Practice Element
Globally, we will have:
Clearly identifiable elements of inter and intra-professional collaboration and multi-disciplinary healthcare, delivered through cohesive and interdependent teams working across interfaces and transitions of care.
Mechanisms
- Develop structures and systems for multidisciplinary intra- and interprofessional teams of all relevant health cadres to work together in a coordinated manner across all levels of care. This should include pharmaceutical practice for optimal people-centred care delivery in primary, secondary and tertiary health settings.
- Work across interfaces and transitions of the health system (including digital interfaces) to ensure continuity of care between levels of care and care journeys through mechanisms such as appropriate communications and health data sharing, shared decision-making, shared accountability for patient outcomes, and services such as medicines reconciliation or collaborative management of long-term conditions.
- Support the development of policies where pharmacists and the support workforce are key actors in collaborative practice and integrated care.
- Work with stakeholders, agencies, and other health professional associations to enable legislative change and development.
- Ensure engagement of patients, formal and informal caregivers and community health workers in multidisciplinary health decision making through their empowerment, improved health literacy and orientation, participation and connectivity in the team as ambassadors for their own and their communities’ health.
- Recognise own professional autonomy and leadership, equal responsibility and accountability with other health professionals in terms of the scope of practice.
- Recognise collaborative practice as a quality indicator for care delivery and capacity improvement.
- Develop and implement intra- and interdisciplinary programmes for workforce willing to change from practice to sciences and vice versa or develop career paths in associated fields.
FIP Development Goal 8 Science Element
Globally, we will have:
Transdisciplinary collaboration to advance education, research, development, manufacturing and regulations that collectively improve access to medical products.
Mechanisms
- Establish opportunities for pharmaceutical scientists and clinical practitioners to collaborate.
- Broaden pharmaceutical sciences education by integrating other disciplines that contribute to innovation, development and manufacturing, and regulations of medical products.
- Foster transdisciplinary collaboration by enabling trainees and early career researchers to work with mentors from different fields.

Transforming Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Education in the Context of Workforce Development (2017)
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Patient Safety: Pharmacists’ role in “Medication without harm” (2020)
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Key findings of the FIP Interprofessional Education in a Pharmacy Context: Global Report (2015)
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142th Executive Board: Intervention on provisional agenda item 3.1 - Draft thirteenth general programme of work 2019–2023 (2018)
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Global Vision for Education and Workforce: Presented at the global conference on pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences education (2016)
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WHPA Webinar: Tackling AMR in a Changing World - What Next After the UN High-level Meeting

Improving collaborative care: Strengthening inter- and intra-professional relationships

Enabling pharmaceutical education transformation in the Western Pacific region: Launch of FIP-UNESCO UNITWIN Centre for Excellence

Cultural and Linguistic Considerations in the Development of Collaborative Services in Pharmacy

Enabling pharmaceutical education transformation in South East Asia: Launch of FIP-UNESCO UNITWIN Centre for Excellence

FIP AIM Global Academic Leaders Forum (GALF) 2022
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FIP “Setting goals for the decade ahead” | Episode 16 | FIP DG 8: Working with others

Setting up new FIP UNITWIN centres for excellence and establishing pharmacy schools’ associations: Launch of the FIP UNITWIN pathfinder toolkit
Young pharmacists and scientists at the helm of a pandemic showcasing innovations & collaboration
Panellists: Sylvester Adeyemi, Audrey Clarissa, Ahmad El Ouweini and Catarina Nobre.
Academic Section Webinar- Interprofessional Education_ The Pharmacists Role Across the Globe
Panelists: Cameil Wilson-Clarke, Gina Prescott, Lisa Hong, Toyin Tofade, Miranda Law.

Celebrating three years of Nanjing Conference: How young pharmacy workforce and students can be involved
Speakers: Lina Bader (FIP), Miranda Law (Howard University College of Pharmacy), and Alison Williams (IPSF)

2nd European Faculty Development Workshop
2nd European Faculty Development Workshop: November 16-18, 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.Interprofessional education: Defining the competencies and goals
Speakers: Frank J. Ascione and Mariet Eksteen
Official launch - Report on the outcomes of global conference on pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences education
Speakers: Philip Schneider and Ian Bates
The following FIP programmes of work and structures support the implementation of this Goal: