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 Education for EmploymentToday, the pharmaceutical field in the West Bank has a dire lack of qualified skills and competent workers. The pharmaceutical field has the greatest gap of all professions between the employment opportunities available and the potential pharmaceutical fields possible. Many pharmacists are often just managing pharmaceutical stores and selling trivial products to clients instead of actually using their professional knowledge in order to make the pharmaceutical industry in Palestine competitive and renewable. Yet, many students still direct themselves into this field: 100 pharmaceutical students graduate from local universities each year, while another 100 graduate from other Arab universities. As a result, the Education for Employment Foundation (http://www.efefoundation.org/) approached IPCC and started working with it on a project meant to offer high-level training to young professionals and recent graduates of the pharmaceutical field in order to create more employment and increase the quality-level of pharmaceutical skills in the West Bank. This way, training will be provided for medical representatives in the market, as well as training for promotion and detailing to physicians and medicine outlets. This project will also enhance medicine in the fields of agriculture and veterinary science and it will ensure the standard of medicine manufacturing and quality assurance. The pharmaceutical industry as a whole will not only benefit from increased skills and knowledge but also from new technologies and it will involve more professions that are related to medicine and pharmaceutical sciences such as chemists, pharmacologists, biochemists, microbiologists, toxicologists and also food industry experts. Therefore, the pharmaceutical fields at large will gain greater credibility and will provide greater employment opportunities as well as enjoy the benefits of an enlarged learning pool. Due to this partnership with the Education for Employment Foundation, IPCC and TIRI have been in touch with the private sector, universities, the pharmaceutical companies and the Pharmacist Union to promote the training project, which was received with enthusiasm amongst the stakeholders. Furthermore, the involvement of Dr. Ribhi Abu Rmeileh, representative of the European and American based companies in the West Bank and Gaza strip, has added the prospect of a concrete outcome at the end of the project through the employment of 20 trainees who will go through the first year of the project program. |
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