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Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan
BACKGROUND: The fact that pharmacists are in the front line of patients’ care gives a great responsibility to focus on education and training of pharmacy students to build a ‘patient-centered’ clinicians. Unfortunately, pharmacy education in the developing countries, have been lagging behind actual...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33731106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02596-w |
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author | Abu Farha, Rana Elayeh, Eman Zalloum, Needa Mukattash, Tareq Alefishat, Eman Suyagh, Maysa Basheti, Iman |
author_facet | Abu Farha, Rana Elayeh, Eman Zalloum, Needa Mukattash, Tareq Alefishat, Eman Suyagh, Maysa Basheti, Iman |
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description | BACKGROUND: The fact that pharmacists are in the front line of patients’ care gives a great responsibility to focus on education and training of pharmacy students to build a ‘patient-centered’ clinicians. Unfortunately, pharmacy education in the developing countries, have been lagging behind actual practice delivered by pharmacists. This highlighted the need to evaluate the perceptions of undergraduate pharmacy students regarding their current pharmacy training practices and experiences. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in Jordan during the period from August 2018 to October 2018. During the study period, a questionnaire was distributed to pharmacy students to collect information regarding 1) pharmaceutical care services provided by them during their experiential training, 2) their perceptions towards training sites, 3) their perceptions of the outcomes of their training experience, 4) information about their training site and 5) their demographics characteristics. RESULTS: A total of 202 pharmacy students responded to the questionnaire. The majority of them reported having the opportunity to dispense refill or new prescriptions (73.8%, n = 149), and conduct patient interviews (69.8%, n = 141, but they were not provided good opportunities to create electronic patient profiles using the information obtained (53.0%, n = 107), perform required dose calculations based on patient information (37.6%, n = 76), and interact with other healthcare professionals (34.6%, n = 70). In addition, students showed positive attitudes toward training sites, positive feedback about the outcomes of their training experience (median scores range between 4 and 5 for all statements (IQR = 1 for all)). CONCLUSION: Students showed positive feedback about the outcomes of their training experience, but they felt that the selected training sites do not have adequate resources to meet their training competencies. Memorandums of understanding development is needed to specify the purpose of training and define the responsibility for both parties of the training process. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-02596-w. |
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spelling | pubmed-79679692021-03-22 Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan Abu Farha, Rana Elayeh, Eman Zalloum, Needa Mukattash, Tareq Alefishat, Eman Suyagh, Maysa Basheti, Iman BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: The fact that pharmacists are in the front line of patients’ care gives a great responsibility to focus on education and training of pharmacy students to build a ‘patient-centered’ clinicians. Unfortunately, pharmacy education in the developing countries, have been lagging behind actual practice delivered by pharmacists. This highlighted the need to evaluate the perceptions of undergraduate pharmacy students regarding their current pharmacy training practices and experiences. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in Jordan during the period from August 2018 to October 2018. During the study period, a questionnaire was distributed to pharmacy students to collect information regarding 1) pharmaceutical care services provided by them during their experiential training, 2) their perceptions towards training sites, 3) their perceptions of the outcomes of their training experience, 4) information about their training site and 5) their demographics characteristics. RESULTS: A total of 202 pharmacy students responded to the questionnaire. The majority of them reported having the opportunity to dispense refill or new prescriptions (73.8%, n = 149), and conduct patient interviews (69.8%, n = 141, but they were not provided good opportunities to create electronic patient profiles using the information obtained (53.0%, n = 107), perform required dose calculations based on patient information (37.6%, n = 76), and interact with other healthcare professionals (34.6%, n = 70). In addition, students showed positive attitudes toward training sites, positive feedback about the outcomes of their training experience (median scores range between 4 and 5 for all statements (IQR = 1 for all)). CONCLUSION: Students showed positive feedback about the outcomes of their training experience, but they felt that the selected training sites do not have adequate resources to meet their training competencies. Memorandums of understanding development is needed to specify the purpose of training and define the responsibility for both parties of the training process. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-02596-w. BioMed Central 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7967969/ /pubmed/33731106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02596-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Abu Farha, Rana Elayeh, Eman Zalloum, Needa Mukattash, Tareq Alefishat, Eman Suyagh, Maysa Basheti, Iman Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title | Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_full | Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_fullStr | Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_full_unstemmed | Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_short | Perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from Jordan |
title_sort | perception of pharmacy students towards their community pharmacy training experience: a cross-sectional study from jordan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33731106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02596-w |
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