background: educational clinical environment has an important role in nursing students' learning. any difference between actual and expected clinical environment will decrease nursing students’ interest in clinical environments and has a negative correlation with their clinical performance.   methods : this descriptive cross-sectional study is an attempt to compare nursing students'perception o...

The six-year pharmacist education course has begun, and now first-year students receive clinical training. Interdisciplinary problem-solving capabilities covering chemistry, biology, molecular biology, pharmacology, pathology, and pharmacokinetics are necessary for new pharmacists. However, the conventional pharmaceutical science education was so separate from other fields that education for in...

BACKGROUND Community pharmacy has become a major access point for several types of vaccinations. Despite the success of vaccination programs like influenza, pneumococcal, and herpes zoster, the rates of human papillomavirus vaccination continue to lag. OBJECTIVES The primary objective is to describe and report on the impact of a multimodal series of pharmacist-led educational interventions on...

BACKGROUND Hypertension control rates remain suboptimal. Pharmacists' scope of practice is evolving, and their position in the community may be ideal for improving hypertension care. We aimed to study the impact of pharmacist prescribing on blood pressure (BP) control in community-dwelling patients. METHODS AND RESULTS We designed a patient-level, randomized, controlled trial, enrolling adult...

background: assessment of clinical competencies is one of the complicated and hard tasks in medical education. nowadays, assessment of clinical performance is significantly patient centered, and student centered. traditional methods consisted of faculties’ observations, oral examinations, and multiple-choice tests. increased faculties’ workload, discontent with traditional methods of clinical s...

Learning Objectives: Mortality has been reported to be as high as 50% in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock. The clinical pharmacist in the ED plays an instrumental role in providing appropriate dosing and empiric therapy recommendations for management of these patients. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines recommend administrati...