Education
CPS members can access online continuing education.
At the FIP congress
During the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the CPS organises a week-long programme, aligned with the overall congress topic and tailored for community pharmacists, including practitioners, researchers and pharmacy leaders.
The FIP congress is also an important showcase for community pharmacists and we invite you to present your work, either as a short oral communication or as posters.
Our section’s annual steering committee meeting is also held during the congress.
Participating in the congress gives you opportunities to benchmark, learn from pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences colleagues from all over the world and make new friends. In addition to continuing education, there’s a lot of fun to be had at the CPS dinner, showcase and welcome reception.
Focus on humanitarian work
For a number of years, the Community Pharmacy Section (and, since 2012, jointly with the Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section) has organised a breakfast session at the FIP congress to highlight the activities of pharmacists above and beyond their core responsibilities. Recent sessions include:
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"The Humanitarian Face of Pharmacy: The Lebanese Experience" by Marwan Akel (2018) |
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"Role of pharmacists in HIV/AIDS in Uganda" |
"Emergency Medical Teams in the Field" |
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“Apothecary Project: Pharmacists promoting |
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“Addressing communicable & |
"Health Care in Danger" |
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"Pharmaceutical Care & Humanitarian Aid" |
“Practical Points of Humanitarian Pharmacist Aid” by Warren Meek (2014) |
“Legislations: Pharmacists in Natural |
If you have a story to tell, Email cps@fip.org with the subject line “Pharmacist in humanitarian work”!
CPS Poster Award
The Community Pharmacy Section of FIP introduced a Poster Award in 2006. The overall purpose with the award is to encourage community pharmacy practice research and development and to share experiences and results with other pharmacists through quality poster presentations at the annual congress of FIP.
The Section has a strong commitment to pharmacy practice research and development. Poster exhibitions and short oral communications based on received abstracts is a long tradition.
2018 CPS Poster Award winners – Glasgow, United Kingdom:
- 1st prize awarded to Ilse Boekweg (The Netherlands) for the poster on "Pharmacogenomics: Making an impact on patients"
- 2nd prize awarded to Avril Tucker (United Kingdom) for the poster “Using e-Bug to raise awareness of infection in Foundation Phase school children: a pilot”
- 3rd prize awarded to Martine Rueggli and colleagues (Switzerland) for the poster “Colorectal cancer screening in pharmacy: a campain in the swiss pharmacies”
2017 CPS Poster Award winners – Seoul, South Korea:
- 1st prize awarded to Hanna Ylä-Rautio and colleagues (Finland)for the poster ”Identifying over-the-counter high-risk medications: development of a national high-risk medication list”
- 2nd prize awarded to Iichiro Yokoyama and colleagues (Japan) for the poster “Usability assessment of drug-specific laboratory data listed on prescriptions for outpatients in Japan”
- 3rd prize awarded to Louise Haslev Jønsson and colleagues (Denmark) for the poster “Implementing new medicines service in danish community pharmacies”
2016 CPS Poster Award winners – Buenos Aires, Argentina:
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1st prize awarded to J. Papastergiou and colleagues (Canada) for the poster “Innovative Canadian Pharmacogenomic Screening Initiative in Community Pharmacy (ICANPIC) Study”.
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2nd prize awarded to Kujala Vesa and colleagues (Finland) for the poster “Quantification of pharmaceutical waist, environmental and economic burden in Finland”.
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3rd prize awarded to Seidi Salomon and colleagues (Argentina) for the poster “Type 2 Diabetes pervention campaign for pharmacies in Cordoba, Argentinia".
2015 CPS Poster Award winners - Düsseldorf, Germany:
- 1st prize Lucia Franco Trigo and colleagues, Australia, for “Identifying a planning group for the development, implementation and evaluation of a pharmacy service aimed at preventing cardiovascular diseases in Australia”
- 2nd prize Rute Horta and colleagues (Portugal) for “7 seasons of influenza immunization campaigns in Portuguese pharmacies”
- 3rd prize Kristin Lippoldt and colleagues (Germany) “Optimization of analgesic drug therapy using software-assisted pharmacokinetic simulation”
Criteria for entries here.
Newsletters
To keep our members updated with the latest pharmacy practice discussions, research and CPS activities, we send them two newsletters, both up to six times a year: ZOOM and Professional News.
We also welcome contributions to ZOOM. Email cps@fip.org.
Professional News is open to all interested pharmacists. To access the latest issues, contact cps@fip.org.
ZOOM Number 1 - February 2014 (Example)
Professional News Number 1 - January 2014 (Example)
100 Community Pharmacists Talking
To mark FIP’s centennial year, the Community Pharmacy Section showcased 100 community pharmacists from around the world in a video “100 Pharmacists Talking”.
Vision 2020 continued
The CPS continued its vision work with a set of recorded interviews of international community pharmacists. Click the link below to hear what Ema, Jaime, Eeva, Kos and other peers are saying about Vision 2020.
We followed this work with “Vision 2020 — A conversation”, a 90-minute video released in conjunction with the 2014 FIP congress in Bangkok. Each individual presentations can be selected for viewing below:
Dr Charlie Benrimoj – Financial Viability and Sustainability
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Dr Anna Westerling – Information and Communication Technology
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Dr Claire Anderson – Education and Continuing Professional Development
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Dr Lisa Guirguis – Communications, Relationships and Collaborations
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Matthew Grissinger – Infrastructure and Premises
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Dr Tana Wuliji – Human Resources
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Willam Zellmer – Ethics and Values
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Dr Johann Kruger – Role of Pharmacy Organisations
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Greg Eberhart – Legislative Framework and Regulation
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Dr Dominique Jordan – Community Pharmacy Section
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