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Association of Schools of Pharmacy in Africa

Membership Benefits

1. Continuous Professional development

Professional development opportunities in the form of workshops, online classes, or member-only materials. This will also be towards personal and professional improvement, even if it doesn’t benefit your area of practice right away.

2. Mentoring programs

Provision to either be a mentor or find one. Mentorship offers the ability to learn the pharmaceutical sector from someone who has been working in it for years. Or you can give back by sharing your expertise with someone new to the area.

3. Networking opportunities

Ability to attend events throughout the year that allow members to network with their peers, including annual conferences. This will allow members to expand their professional networks.

4. Access to resources

Access you get to newsletters, magazines, and other publications that can offer useful information about the pharmaceutical industry. This will include news about upcoming events, conferences, meetings, and even career opportunities not publicized elsewhere.

5. Getting your name (and your School’s) out there

Increase visibility, as well as that of your School. This increased visibility can be essential when trying to enhance your own professional brand, and can help your School grow.

6. Access to expertise

With the potential for a viable staff exchange program, institutions will have access to limited human resources (experts) thereby improving the learning and supervision experiences of students.

7. Access to laboratory and other training facilities

As Schools on the continent are at different levels of development, the least developed institutions can have access to facilities from more advanced facilities.

8. Staff Exchange programs to learn best practices from colleagues in other institutions.

This will be particularly beneficial to younger schools of pharmacy that need assistance with curriculum development and other key research areas in improving their growth and development.

9. Opportunities for staff development

Through networking, staff without terminal degrees can get information from other Pharmacy Schools in Africa where they can pursue Postgraduate studies to obtain terminal degrees (PhD) especially if their institutions do not offer such post graduate programs.

10. Strengthening of Student Activities Between Pharmacy Schools

The Association will also serve as a tool to strengthen relationships between pharmacy students of schools across Africa such as International Pharmaceutical Federation (IPSF) student exchanges and so on.

11. Collaborations across institutions to develop new programs

Members get together to come up with new programs by reason of different expertise coming together.