From Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Adliye-i şahane to Present Day an Overview to Pharmaceutics Education

AbstractPharmacy education in our country has started in 1839, with the constitution of ‘Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Adliye-i Şahane’ in Istanbul. In the year 1909, associated with the establishment of the Darülfünun Medical Faculty in Istanbul, a School of Pharmacy, named as ‘Eczacı Yüksek Okulu’ got started the education. The courses of this school were transfered from High Pharmacy School of Paris. Since 1962, the Aforenamed School has continued its education activities as the Faculty of Pharmacy under the structure of Istanbul University.Because of the insufficient graduation number of students from the Faculty of Pharmacy, some private institutions have received permission from the Ministry of National Education for being able to establish “Private High School of Pharmaceutics”. After the first private school, established in 1964, the number of schools teaching pharmacy education has increased rapidly and the need for pharmaceutists was tried to be satisfied. Today there are 26 higher education institutions teaching pharmacy in Turkey