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Dear
Colleague:
The
Health Resources and Services Administration’s
Office of Women’s Health, Department of Health
and Human Services’ Office on Women’s
Health, National Institutes of Health’s Office
of Research on Women’s Health, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality’s Director, Women’s
Health & Gender-Based Research, and Food and Drug
Administration’s Office of Women’s Health,
in collaboration with the American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), are pleased to provide
you with this copy of Health Professions Training,
Education, and Competency: Women’s Health in
the Pharmacy School Curriculum.
This
report is an analysis of the status of women’s
health education in the nation’s 89 colleges
and schools of pharmacy with doctor of pharmacy degree
programs recognized by the Accreditation Council for
Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as of August 2004. The aim
of the project was to assess the extent to which women’s
health is addressed in required and elective courses
in the doctor of pharmacy (PharmD.) curriculum; learn
from the recommendations included in the medicine,
dentistry, and nursing reports on women’s health
in the curriculum for those particular professions;
and compile and develop resources to promote women’s
health instruction within pharmacy education. Through
this project, AACP and its Federal partners sought
to facilitate the integration of women’s health
education, organized across the lifespan, into the
curriculum and to increase visibility and accessibility
of existing materials available from Federal sources
to expand and enhance women’s health instruction
within the pharmacy curriculum. To accomplish this,
AACP worked closely with the Federal partners, a multi-organizational
Steering Committee, and a Context Expert Panel comprising
pharmacy faculty members with an interest and expertise
in women’s health issues.
We
would like to express appreciation to the many individuals
that contributed to the preparation of this document.
This report is instrumental in providing an expanded
look at how women’s health issues across the
lifespan may be incorporated into the educational
preparation of pharmacists.
We
hope this publication will be valuable as you work
to enhance and expand the focus on women’s health
in pharmacy programs.
Sincerely
yours,
Wanda
K. Jones, Dr.P.H
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Women’s
Health)
Department of Health and Human Services |
CAPT
Theresa A. Toigo, R.Ph., M.B.A.
Acting Director, Office of Women’s Health
Food and Drug Administration |
| Vivian
W. Pinn, MD
Associate Director for Research on
Women’s Health
Director, Office of Research on Women’s
Health
National Institutes of Health |
| Rosaly
Correa-de-Araujo, MD, MSc, PhD
Director, Women’s Health and Gender -
Based Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
Sabrina
Matoff-Stepp, MA
Director, Office of Women’s Health
Health Resources and Services Administration |
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