Pharmacy Education and Clinical Pharmacy Training in France
Florence Ranchon,
Sébastien Chanoine,
ANEPC Pedagogical Committee,
Antoine Dupuis,
Gaël Grimandi,
Michel Sève,
Stéphane Honoré,
Benoît Allenet,
Pierrick Bedouch
Affiliations
Florence Ranchon
Université Lyon 1, Faculté de Pharmacie de Lyon, F-69008 Lyon, France
Sébastien Chanoine
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, CHU Grenoble Alpes, TIMC, UMR5525, Pharmacy Department, F-38043 Grenoble, France
ANEPC Pedagogical Committee
ANEPC (National Association of Clinical Pharmacy Professors/Association Nationale des Enseignants de Pharmacie Clinique), F-38043 Grenoble, France
Antoine Dupuis
CPOPH (Conseil National Professionnel de la Pharmacie d’Officine et de la Pharmacie Hospitalière), National Professional Council for Community and Hospital Pharmacy, Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Pharmacie, F-75000 Paris, France
Gaël Grimandi
Conférence des Doyens de Faculté de Pharmacie Conference of Pharmacy Faculties Deans, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Nantes, F-75000 Paris, France
Michel Sève
CIDPHARMEF (Conférence Internationale des Doyens des Facultés de Pharmacie d’Expression Française), Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38041 Grenoble, France
Stéphane Honoré
Société Française de Pharmacie Clinique (SFPC), Faculté de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille Université, F-13000 Marseille, France
Benoît Allenet
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, CHU Grenoble Alpes, TIMC, UMR5525, Pharmacy Department, F-38043 Grenoble, France
Pierrick Bedouch
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, CHU Grenoble Alpes, TIMC, UMR5525, Pharmacy Department, F-38043 Grenoble, France
Clinical pharmacy education varies widely between European countries, and several major changes have taken place in France. This review aims to describe the current state of pharmacy education in France, focusing on clinical pharmacy. Research into legislative texts on pharmacy education in France was conducted based on the national database “legifrance”. A complementary search on clinical pharmacy teaching methods used in France was carried out on the Medline, Embase, Pascal and Francis database for articles published from 2008 to 30 April 2021. Pharmacy studies are taught in universities and last from six to ten years, depending on the student’s chosen options. The scientific curriculum is defined at the national level. Students choose their professional path after the fourth year with specialized courses. Whatever the direction chosen, all students have several internships, including a half-time one-year hospital internship, with patient-centered hospital functions within medical and pharmaceutical teams. The status of clinical pharmacy has been enhanced under French law and regulations, improving clinical pharmacy education, which is now skill-based, in a progressive, active, and dynamic process, with community or hospital pharmacists as university teachers and closer to real-life clinical pharmacy. Teaching is increasingly innovative, and this needs to be shared and reported in the literature. Several important reforms have modernized French pharmacy studies in recent years, conferring a pivotal place for clinical pharmacy.
