<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>aaspjournal</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Journal of Asian Association of Schools of Pharmacy</JournalTitle> <PISSN>I</PISSN> <EISSN>S</EISSN> <Volume-Issue>Volume 10</Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>January - December, 2021</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>2021</Year> <Month>10</Month> <Day>14</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Pharmacy</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Unique perspectives of Pharmacy Education in Japan —Core Curriculum and Some Examples of Advanced Education—</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>31</FirstPage> <LastPage>34</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Hisakazu</FirstName> <LastName>Ohtani</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>This review aims to introduce the current perspectives of pharmacy education in Japan. In 2006, Japanese pharmacy education system was reformed to have two tracks; the six-year course to produce pharmacists and four-year course to produce researchers, and the model core curriculum was introduced. The current model core curriculum (version 2013) was designed based on the concept of outcome-based education to cover approximately 70% of total classes. Pharmacy students are required to pass two common achievement tests at the end of fourth year - objective structural clinical examination (OSCE) and computer-based testing (CBT) - before pharmacy practice experiences consisting of community pharmacy and hospital rotations. Besides, all the students are required to carry out the research for graduation thesis. While we are facing with a problem of future imbalance between supply and demand of pharmacists, the science-based pharmacy education will expand the role of pharmacists and improve the imbalance.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>core curriculum, Japan, pharmacy education, clinical rotation</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://aaspjournal.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=13344&title=Unique perspectives of Pharmacy Education in Japan —Core Curriculum and Some Examples of Advanced Education—</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References/> </References> </Journal> </Article> </ArticleSet>