OBJECTIVE To implement a shared learning approach through fourth-year students' mentorship of third-year students and to assess the perceptions of the mentored students on the value of their shared learning experience. DESIGN We introduced the shared learning experience in clinical pharmacy and pharmacotherapeutic practice experiences involving 87 third-year and 51 fourth-year students. Both ...

The Bologna declaration and the European Union (EU) directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications influence the mobility of pharmacy students and pharmacy professionals, respectively. In addition the Bologna declaration aims at tuning higher education degrees including pharmacy throughout the EU in order to prepare for a harmonised European Higher Education Area. The di...

introduction: study skills and students’ satisfaction with their performance positively affect their academic achievement. the current research was carried out to investigate the correlation of study skills with academic achievement among the medical and pharmacy students in 2013. methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 148 students of basic medical sciences and pharmacy thr...

OBJECTIVE A simulation process known as objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was applied to assess pharmacy practice performed by senior pharmacy students. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted based on documentary analysis of performance evaluation records of pharmacy practice simulations that occurred between 2005 and 2009. These simulations were related to the process o...

Every year schools and colleges of pharmacy face the difficult task of determining which students to admit to their professional programs. The task has become even more difficult in the past few years with the increase in applicants. The number of applications to pharmacy programs increased by 9.1%, 24.6%, and 41.7% in 2001, 2002, and 2003 applicant cycles, respectively.1-3 Similarly at South D...

OBJECTIVES To create a doctor of pharmacy curricular experience that will decrease students' social barriers to interaction with and treatment of mentally-ill patients. DESIGN We created a survey instrument to measure 4 aspects of students' conceptions of schizophrenia and clinical depression: (1) understanding of the medical nature of each disease, (2) understanding of patient behavior, (3) ...

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the perceptions of the educational environment between physiotherapy and pharmacy students in a public-sector medical university. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women, Nawabshah, Pakistan, and comprised undergraduate physiotherapy and pharmacy students. The Dundee Ready Educational E...

Background In many countries across the world, the majority of prescribing occurs within the community setting. Close collaboration between general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists is required to ensure effective therapeutic treatment of patients, whilst minimising prescribing and dispensing errors. Despite the need to work collaboratively, medical and pharmacy training is often unilateral. ...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of needlestick injuries and the activity related to needlestick injuries among the pharmacy students. It also explored the knowledge source of needlestick management. Methods: Sixth year pharmacy students being trained for 6 clerkships from March to December 2013 were surveyed using a self-administrating questionnaire. Results: Among totall...