UC Davis professor visits NCKU to boost collaboration in pharmacy education
Tainan, Tainan, April 20, 2016
Dr. Jacquelyn Gervay Hague, a synthetic organic chemist, from the University of California (UC) Davis visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, on April 20, to understand the pharmacy education in Taiwan and strengthen the partnership between NCKU and UC Davis.
NCKU President Huey-Jen Jenny Su extended her warm welcome to Dr. Hague and said, “This is the first time we have a new pharmacy program designated by the government as the first one in half century in Taiwan.”
Dr. Hague responded, “With your medical school here and everything, it makes a lot of sense to establish it.”
“I can appreciate how long it takes to establish these programs. It takes a lot of work,” she added.
We probably can successfully curate a program that takes buntige of both solid chemistry education and with interest and understanding of application coming to the pharmaceutical sectors, according to President Su.
NCKU College of Medicine Dean Jang-Yang Chang said that the Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at NCKU College of Medicine with its master and PhD program has been the cradle of talents for the pharmaceutical industries and governmental agencies.
The demand for pharmaceutical professionals is growing in the past few years. The establishment of the School of Pharmacy at NCKU is expecting to meet the growing demand, according to Dean Chang.
Prof. Yea-Huei Kao Yang, the chair of School of Pharmacy at NCKU, said, “Nowadays we are facing an aging society, we need biotechnology development or improvement then we will need more people well-trained in pharmacy field. I thank this is probably the reason why we are the first to be approved for the six-year program.”
“It allows students to have a chance to change their professional developments. They don’t have to stick to clinical training. When they have preliminary experience in clinical practice probably they want to decide to go to chemistry or biomedical study and then they can shift to the other track,” Yang said.
Dr. Hague said, “The job prospects for the students are diversifying, because it used to be if they’re in pharmacy they are pharmacists, but now, they can actually go to into the pharmaceutical industry so they have a lot of opportunities.”
Yang pointed out that the goals of pharmacy program at NCKU are to enable students to become competent pharmacists with pharmaceutical care expertise, to promote the medication safety and benefit, as well as to foster the experts for drug research and development.
After completing the program, students would be capable to engage in clinical pharmacy services or pharmaceutical industry, she added.
Yang also said, “Our faculty in chemical engineering is pretty much interested in cooperating in our pharmacy program so we're very lucky to have faculty from different fields get involved in our curriculum.”
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Dr. Jacquelyn Gervay Hague, a synthetic organic chemist, from the University of California (UC) Davis visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, on April 20, to understand the pharmacy education in Taiwan and strengthen the partnership between NCKU and UC Davis.
NCKU President Huey-Jen Jenny Su extended her warm welcome to Dr. Hague and said, “This is the first time we have a new pharmacy program designated by the government as the first one in half century in Taiwan.”
Dr. Hague responded, “With your medical school here and everything, it makes a lot of sense to establish it.”
“I can appreciate how long it takes to establish these programs. It takes a lot of work,” she added.
We probably can successfully curate a program that takes buntige of both solid chemistry education and with interest and understanding of application coming to the pharmaceutical sectors, according to President Su.
NCKU College of Medicine Dean Jang-Yang Chang said that the Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at NCKU College of Medicine with its master and PhD program has been the cradle of talents for the pharmaceutical industries and governmental agencies.
The demand for pharmaceutical professionals is growing in the past few years. The establishment of the School of Pharmacy at NCKU is expecting to meet the growing demand, according to Dean Chang.
Prof. Yea-Huei Kao Yang, the chair of School of Pharmacy at NCKU, said, “Nowadays we are facing an aging society, we need biotechnology development or improvement then we will need more people well-trained in pharmacy field. I thank this is probably the reason why we are the first to be approved for the six-year program.”
“It allows students to have a chance to change their professional developments. They don’t have to stick to clinical training. When they have preliminary experience in clinical practice probably they want to decide to go to chemistry or biomedical study and then they can shift to the other track,” Yang said.
Dr. Hague said, “The job prospects for the students are diversifying, because it used to be if they’re in pharmacy they are pharmacists, but now, they can actually go to into the pharmaceutical industry so they have a lot of opportunities.”
Yang pointed out that the goals of pharmacy program at NCKU are to enable students to become competent pharmacists with pharmaceutical care expertise, to promote the medication safety and benefit, as well as to foster the experts for drug research and development.
After completing the program, students would be capable to engage in clinical pharmacy services or pharmaceutical industry, she added.
Yang also said, “Our faculty in chemical engineering is pretty much interested in cooperating in our pharmacy program so we're very lucky to have faculty from different fields get involved in our curriculum.”
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