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Sustainable Pharmacy: Piloting a Session on Pharmaceuticals, Climate Change, and Sustainability within a U.S. Pharmacy Curriculum

OBJECTIVE: To design and assess an innovative session for pharmacy students that addresses the role of pharmaceuticals with climate change and sustainability. INNOVATION: One hundred and sixteen third-year students at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy participated during...

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Autores principales: Gruenberg, Katherine, Apollonio, Dorie, MacDougall, Conan, Brock, Tina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34123482
http://dx.doi.org/10.24926/iip.v8i4.929
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Apollonio, Dorie
MacDougall, Conan
Brock, Tina
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description OBJECTIVE: To design and assess an innovative session for pharmacy students that addresses the role of pharmaceuticals with climate change and sustainability. INNOVATION: One hundred and sixteen third-year students at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy participated during their required Health Policy course. This 3-hour session included guided pre-course activities, an interactive lecture, a panel of healthcare professionals discussing complex decision-making and small group case-based learning. Curricular assessment was conducted through pre-/post-test measures of knowledge acquisition, student evaluations, and course projects. CRITICAL ANALYSIS: One hundred and two students (response rate 88%) completed the pre-test and 115 students (response rate 99%) completed the post-test assessment. We identified a significant increase in the proportion of correct answers on post-test questions addressing drug disposal legislation (75% pre-test vs 91% post-test, p=0.002) and the predicted effects of climate change on health (55% pre-test vs 90% post-test, p < 0.001). The session was also well received; average student evaluation scores were above 4 in all areas of course evaluation (where 5=ideal). In addition, 17% of student groups (relative to 0% in 2015) proposed a sustainability-related policy as their final coursework project. NEXT STEPS: The development and implementation of this brief session resulted in knowledge gain and favorable student response. This project is feasible for other Schools of Pharmacy to adapt and implement.
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spelling pubmed-81912922021-06-10 Sustainable Pharmacy: Piloting a Session on Pharmaceuticals, Climate Change, and Sustainability within a U.S. Pharmacy Curriculum Gruenberg, Katherine Apollonio, Dorie MacDougall, Conan Brock, Tina Innov Pharm Article OBJECTIVE: To design and assess an innovative session for pharmacy students that addresses the role of pharmaceuticals with climate change and sustainability. INNOVATION: One hundred and sixteen third-year students at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy participated during their required Health Policy course. This 3-hour session included guided pre-course activities, an interactive lecture, a panel of healthcare professionals discussing complex decision-making and small group case-based learning. Curricular assessment was conducted through pre-/post-test measures of knowledge acquisition, student evaluations, and course projects. CRITICAL ANALYSIS: One hundred and two students (response rate 88%) completed the pre-test and 115 students (response rate 99%) completed the post-test assessment. We identified a significant increase in the proportion of correct answers on post-test questions addressing drug disposal legislation (75% pre-test vs 91% post-test, p=0.002) and the predicted effects of climate change on health (55% pre-test vs 90% post-test, p < 0.001). The session was also well received; average student evaluation scores were above 4 in all areas of course evaluation (where 5=ideal). In addition, 17% of student groups (relative to 0% in 2015) proposed a sustainability-related policy as their final coursework project. NEXT STEPS: The development and implementation of this brief session resulted in knowledge gain and favorable student response. This project is feasible for other Schools of Pharmacy to adapt and implement. 2017-10-12 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC8191292/ /pubmed/34123482 http://dx.doi.org/10.24926/iip.v8i4.929 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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