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Six British pharmacy students and young pharmacists took part in the 47th annual International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation congress in Egypt last month. Joanna Hallett, former BPSA treasurer and student exchange officer, reports.
"Pharmacy is the canary in the coal mine of health professionals" as it is predictive of trends that will occur in allied professions, proposed Dr Zubin Austin, co-ordinator in pharmacy practice at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Canada.
Prof Austin was discussing the effects of globalisation on pharmacy. "Global pharmacy" comprises four fundamental features, he said: corporatisation, technologisation, majoritisation and consumerism. These features illustrate the differing ways in which globalisation affects pharmacy. The control of pharmacies by non- pharmacist supervisors is indicative of corporatisation, or a movement away from the individual towards collectives....