Overall objectives:
- To create a platform for the education and training of pharmacists to a level of specialization and maintain continuing professional development (CPD)
- Advocate on how pharmacy professional looking to develop the pharmacy workforce within a broader context within health care systems.
- Describe the knowledge, skills and the attitudes required for good patient-centered pharmacy practice.
- Showcase the experience of Oman as a leading country in the Region in adopting the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative.
- Highlight the global health system research symposium 2020 (HSR2020) and its contribution to reshaping the future of health care
- To identify transformative change in pharmacy education needed to meet the accelerated societal needs including new competencies required for the 21st century.
- To explore the future of pharmacotherapy and identify new trends and advances in diseases management
- To appraise the importance of the evolution of new technologies on society and on the healthcare landscape
- Know the field of global health diplomacy, its history, recent development and key challenges.
- To discuss the supervisory role of the emergency pharmacist including, but not limited to other pharmacy personnel (i.e. technicians),
- Outline the protocol for a scientifically sound research study; appraise strengths and weaknesses with studies found in literature and argue for methods chosen
- To advance policy opportunities to building resilient and responsive health systems.
- To enable community pharmacists to acquire the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitudes to deliver comprehensive pharmaceutical care to ambulatory patients
- To develop new and innovative ways to attract young pharmacists into all areas of pharmaceutical practice and science.