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The inclusion of a business management module within the master of pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment?
BACKGROUND: Over the past decade the profession of pharmacy has steadily evolved. The New Pharmacy Contract exposed pharmacists to a fundamental change in traditional pharmacy business models. OBJECTIVE: This study will consider whether community pharmacists, pharmacy undergraduates and academic sta...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3798171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24155858 |
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author | Davies, Michael J. Fleming, Hannah Jones, Richard Menzie, Kate Smallwood, Christine Surendar, Sebastian |
author_facet | Davies, Michael J. Fleming, Hannah Jones, Richard Menzie, Kate Smallwood, Christine Surendar, Sebastian |
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description | BACKGROUND: Over the past decade the profession of pharmacy has steadily evolved. The New Pharmacy Contract exposed pharmacists to a fundamental change in traditional pharmacy business models. OBJECTIVE: This study will consider whether community pharmacists, pharmacy undergraduates and academic staff within the United Kingdom believe it would be beneficial to incorporate a business management module within the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) undergraduate degree along with potential mechanisms of delivery. METHODS: Further to ethical approval, the questionnaire was distributed to UK registered pharmacists (n=600), MPharm undergraduates (n=441) and academic staff at Liverpool John Moores University (n=44). The questions were formatted as multiple choice questions, Likert scales or the open answer type. On questionnaire completion and return, data were analysed using simple frequencies, cross tabulations and non-parametric techniques in the SPSS (v18). RESULTS: The majority of pharmacists (84.9%) confirmed that business skills affect their everyday responsibilities to a considerable extent. A high proportion of undergraduate students (92.8%) believed that business management skills will impact on their future role. In total, 64.3% of this cohort declared that if a module were introduced they would study it. The majority of staff (79%) agreed that business skills are gaining increased importance within the field of pharmacy. CONCLUSIONS: Data suggest that business skills are of relevance to the practice of pharmacy. Appropriate staff to deliver the taught material would include business owners / lecturers and teaching practitioners covering topics including management, leadership, interpersonal skills and regulation. We suggest the inclusion of a business module with the MPharm degree would be of great value in preparing individuals for practice within a modern day healthcare setting. |
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spelling | pubmed-37981712013-10-23 The inclusion of a business management module within the master of pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? Davies, Michael J. Fleming, Hannah Jones, Richard Menzie, Kate Smallwood, Christine Surendar, Sebastian Pharm Pract (Granada) Original Research BACKGROUND: Over the past decade the profession of pharmacy has steadily evolved. The New Pharmacy Contract exposed pharmacists to a fundamental change in traditional pharmacy business models. OBJECTIVE: This study will consider whether community pharmacists, pharmacy undergraduates and academic staff within the United Kingdom believe it would be beneficial to incorporate a business management module within the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) undergraduate degree along with potential mechanisms of delivery. METHODS: Further to ethical approval, the questionnaire was distributed to UK registered pharmacists (n=600), MPharm undergraduates (n=441) and academic staff at Liverpool John Moores University (n=44). The questions were formatted as multiple choice questions, Likert scales or the open answer type. On questionnaire completion and return, data were analysed using simple frequencies, cross tabulations and non-parametric techniques in the SPSS (v18). RESULTS: The majority of pharmacists (84.9%) confirmed that business skills affect their everyday responsibilities to a considerable extent. A high proportion of undergraduate students (92.8%) believed that business management skills will impact on their future role. In total, 64.3% of this cohort declared that if a module were introduced they would study it. The majority of staff (79%) agreed that business skills are gaining increased importance within the field of pharmacy. CONCLUSIONS: Data suggest that business skills are of relevance to the practice of pharmacy. Appropriate staff to deliver the taught material would include business owners / lecturers and teaching practitioners covering topics including management, leadership, interpersonal skills and regulation. We suggest the inclusion of a business module with the MPharm degree would be of great value in preparing individuals for practice within a modern day healthcare setting. Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmaceuticas 2013 2013-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3798171/ /pubmed/24155858 Text en Copyright © 2013, CIPF http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Davies, Michael J. Fleming, Hannah Jones, Richard Menzie, Kate Smallwood, Christine Surendar, Sebastian The inclusion of a business management module within the master of pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
title | The inclusion of a business management module within the master of
pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
title_full | The inclusion of a business management module within the master of
pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
title_fullStr | The inclusion of a business management module within the master of
pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
title_full_unstemmed | The inclusion of a business management module within the master of
pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
title_short | The inclusion of a business management module within the master of
pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
title_sort | inclusion of a business management module within the master of
pharmacy degree: a route to asset enrichment? |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3798171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24155858 |
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