Abstract

In past few years, the pharmacy profession in Ethiopia has evolved significantly in relation to education and practice. Currently, the pharmacists are recognized as an integral part of multidisciplinary approach of Ethiopian health care system. The Ethiopian pharmaceutical education and practice has a long journey since its inception. However, the current published literatures available till date provides very few details about the transitions in pharmacy education and practice in Ethiopia. The aim of this review is to highlight and discuss the progress of pharmacy education and practice in Ethiopia in sequential manner. To gather the information’s a thorough search of published and unpublished literatures was conducted using various search engines such as, PubMed, Google and other relevant websites with key words like, Clinical pharmacy, Pharmacy, education, Ethiopia. It concludes that although the pharmacy education and practice in Ethiopia is rapidly growing towards patient care, but emphasis should be given for devising some system for the assessment of quality of education and services being provided. Furthermore, Ethiopia is experiencing a shortage of man power in pharmaceutical sector as well, so policy makers may consider for initiating industry oriented Bachelors program in pharmacy along with the existing clinically oriented Bachelor of Pharmacy program to fulfill the country need

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