1. CROSS COLLEGE COLLABORATION: The Canadian Experience JIM BLACKBURN ASSOC. OF FACULTIES OF PHARMACY OF CANADA

2. EXAMPLES OF CANADIAN:INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS STUDENT EXCHANGES FACULTY COLLABORATION TEACHING RESEARCH

3. STUDENT EXCHANGE UNIVERSITE LAVAL (Marc Desgagne) –GOAL - 20% OF STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN 5 YEARS –ACHIEVED 10 % PARTICIPATION IN 2 YEARS –SIGNED AGREEMENTS WITH 5 FRENCH FACULTIES (GRENOBLE, ROUEN, DIJON, CLERMONT-FERRAND)

4. STUDENT EXCHANGE Universite Laval (cont’d) –permits inclusion “international profile” on diploma –exchange is for 1 or 2 full-time semesters and devoted to complementary courses or work- study programs –interested in developing Pan-Am and Asian agreements

5. STUDENT EXCHANGE UNIVERSITE LAVAL - MARC DESGAGNE is at this conference –detailed information may be obtained from Dr. Desgagne or on Laval web site: http://www.ulaval.ca/BI/mobilite/texte_internat ional_profile.htm (information in English, French and Spanish)

6. STUDENT EXCHANGE Universite de Montreal –provide 3 month clerkship for students from France (10 - 25 students/year) –web site (www.apesquebec.org/echanges (J.F. Bussieres

7. STUDENT EXCHANGE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (John Bachynsky/Cheryl Cox) –AGREEMENTS WITH 6 PHARMACY SCHOOLS IN JAPAN (TOHO, HOKKAIDO, MEIJI - MOST ACTIVE) JAPANESE STUDENTS SPEND 3 WEEKS AT ALBERTA IN ENGLISH STUDIES, SELECT PHARMACY CLASSES AND VISIT PHARMACIES

8. STUDENT EXCHANGE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (cont’d) –ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL COURSE FOR INTERNATIONAL PHARMACY STUDENTS - LANGUAGE/ COMMUNICATION STANDARDS –INITIATING FORMAL EXCHANGE WITH SINGAPORE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY TWO STUDENTS FROM EACH UNIVERSITY SPEND 4 - 6 WEEKS ON EXPERIENTIAL STUDIES

9. FACULTY COLLABORTION TEACHING MULTI-UNIVERSITY –TEACHING AT CARIBBEAN SCHOOLS FOR ONE SEMESTER –1990’s - one Canadian faculty member spent one semester teaching (therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, etc,)

10. FACULTY COLLABORTION TEACHING –TORONTO/SASK EXCHANGE WITH FOUR SCHOOLS IN UKRAINE - feature “patient oriented curriculum development” Deans of 4 Colleges of Pharmacy in Ukraine spent three weeks in Toronto & Saskatoon Two Canadian Deans plus two Canadian clinical practitioners gave lectures on implementing pharmaceutical care at the four Colleges in the Ukraine ( 2 weeks)

11. FACULTY COLLABORTION TEACHING University of Toronto - (Tom Einarson) –National Univ., Cordoba, Argentina - 30 hour course in evidence-based medicine, pharmaco- epi and pharmacoeconomics –other presentations - National University, Santiago, Chile, –

12. FACULTY COLLABORATION TEACHING Universite de Montreal –Pharmacists without Borders Missions (Dianne Lamarre - France, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro –-Teaching responsibilities at French schools, particularly related to pharmaceutical care (Claude Mailhot)

13. FACULTY COLLABORTION Research UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL AND UNIVERSITE LAVAL –Quebec government has specific program for supporting research collaboration with French Universities (and others). –For information, please contact Dr. Therese Di Paolo, Universite Laval (therese.dipaolo@pha.ulaval.ca)

14. FACULTY COLLABORTION Research University of Alberta –part of agreement with Japanese Schools provides for exchange of graduate students University of Toronto –graduate students have spent time with faculty in Toronto during their programs –undergraduate students from Netherlands, Sweden do research projects

15. FUTURE CANADIAN COLLABORATION There is a great interest in each of the nine faculties of pharmacy in Canada to pursue new options for international collaboration with pharmacy schools in the Americas