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What is a Pharmacist: Opinions of Pharmacy Department Academics and Community Pharmacists on Competences Required for Pharmacy Practice

This paper looks at the opinions of 241 European academics (who provide pharmacy education), and of 258 European community pharmacists (who apply it), on competences for pharmacy practice. A proposal for competences was generated by a panel of experts using Delphi methodology. Once finalized, the pr...

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Autores principales: Atkinson, Jeffrey, de Paepe, Kristien, Sánchez Pozo, Antonio, Rekkas, Dimitrios, Volmer, Daisy, Hirvonen, Jouni, Bozic, Borut, Skowron, Agnieska, Mircioiu, Constantin, Marcincal, Annie, Koster, Andries, Wilson, Keith, van Schravendijk, Chris, Wilkinson, Jamie
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Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28970385
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4010012
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author Atkinson, Jeffrey
de Paepe, Kristien
Sánchez Pozo, Antonio
Rekkas, Dimitrios
Volmer, Daisy
Hirvonen, Jouni
Bozic, Borut
Skowron, Agnieska
Mircioiu, Constantin
Marcincal, Annie
Koster, Andries
Wilson, Keith
van Schravendijk, Chris
Wilkinson, Jamie
author_facet Atkinson, Jeffrey
de Paepe, Kristien
Sánchez Pozo, Antonio
Rekkas, Dimitrios
Volmer, Daisy
Hirvonen, Jouni
Bozic, Borut
Skowron, Agnieska
Mircioiu, Constantin
Marcincal, Annie
Koster, Andries
Wilson, Keith
van Schravendijk, Chris
Wilkinson, Jamie
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description This paper looks at the opinions of 241 European academics (who provide pharmacy education), and of 258 European community pharmacists (who apply it), on competences for pharmacy practice. A proposal for competences was generated by a panel of experts using Delphi methodology. Once finalized, the proposal was then submitted to a large, European-wide community of academics and practicing pharmacists in an additional Delphi round. Academics and community pharmacy practitioners recognized the importance of the notion of patient care competences, underlining the nature of the pharmacist as a specialist of medicines. The survey revealed certain discrepancies. Academics placed substantial emphasis on research, pharmaceutical technology, regulatory aspects of quality, etc., but these were ranked much lower by community pharmacists who concentrated more on patient care competences. In a sub-analysis of the data, we evaluated how perceptions may have changed since the 1980s and the introduction of the notions of competence and pharmaceutical care. This was done by splitting both groups into respondents < 40 and > 40 years old. Results for the subgroups were essentially statistically the same but with some different qualitative tendencies. The results are discussed in the light of the different conceptions of the professional identity of the pharmacist.
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spelling pubmed-54193472017-09-29 What is a Pharmacist: Opinions of Pharmacy Department Academics and Community Pharmacists on Competences Required for Pharmacy Practice Atkinson, Jeffrey de Paepe, Kristien Sánchez Pozo, Antonio Rekkas, Dimitrios Volmer, Daisy Hirvonen, Jouni Bozic, Borut Skowron, Agnieska Mircioiu, Constantin Marcincal, Annie Koster, Andries Wilson, Keith van Schravendijk, Chris Wilkinson, Jamie Pharmacy (Basel) Article This paper looks at the opinions of 241 European academics (who provide pharmacy education), and of 258 European community pharmacists (who apply it), on competences for pharmacy practice. A proposal for competences was generated by a panel of experts using Delphi methodology. Once finalized, the proposal was then submitted to a large, European-wide community of academics and practicing pharmacists in an additional Delphi round. Academics and community pharmacy practitioners recognized the importance of the notion of patient care competences, underlining the nature of the pharmacist as a specialist of medicines. The survey revealed certain discrepancies. Academics placed substantial emphasis on research, pharmaceutical technology, regulatory aspects of quality, etc., but these were ranked much lower by community pharmacists who concentrated more on patient care competences. In a sub-analysis of the data, we evaluated how perceptions may have changed since the 1980s and the introduction of the notions of competence and pharmaceutical care. This was done by splitting both groups into respondents < 40 and > 40 years old. Results for the subgroups were essentially statistically the same but with some different qualitative tendencies. The results are discussed in the light of the different conceptions of the professional identity of the pharmacist. MDPI 2016-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5419347/ /pubmed/28970385 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4010012 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Atkinson, Jeffrey
de Paepe, Kristien
Sánchez Pozo, Antonio
Rekkas, Dimitrios
Volmer, Daisy
Hirvonen, Jouni
Bozic, Borut
Skowron, Agnieska
Mircioiu, Constantin
Marcincal, Annie
Koster, Andries
Wilson, Keith
van Schravendijk, Chris
Wilkinson, Jamie
What is a Pharmacist: Opinions of Pharmacy Department Academics and Community Pharmacists on Competences Required for Pharmacy Practice
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title_short What is a Pharmacist: Opinions of Pharmacy Department Academics and Community Pharmacists on Competences Required for Pharmacy Practice
title_sort what is a pharmacist: opinions of pharmacy department academics and community pharmacists on competences required for pharmacy practice
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5419347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28970385
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4010012
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