This paper describes a novel education program for doctor of pharmacy students about diabetes, a chronic disorder of glucose metabolism affecting an estimated 16 million people in the United States. The Diabetes Program (DP) incorporates didactic learning, web-based case evaluation, and role play into a two-week comprehensive module on diabetes care. In the DP, students are placed in the role o...

Implementation of competency-based pharmacy education (CBPE) is a time-consuming, complicated process, which requires agreement on the tasks of a pharmacist, commitment, institutional stability, and a goal-directed developmental perspective of all stakeholders involved. In this article the main steps in the development of a fully-developed competency-based pharmacy curriculum (bachelor, master)...

DIFFERENCES The current landscape of higher education is the result of a profound transformation in its nature and scope over the last 2 centuries. One of the driving forces behind this change has been the differentiation of academic disciplines.1 In the early 19th century, colleges and universities instructed only a few elite students in a small number of basic subjects like classical language...

PHP187 THe FuTure oF educaTion in HTa and HealTH economics Carroll C., Beecroft C., Miller L. The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Objectives: An increasing range of online education is available to those working in the field of pharmaco-economics and Health Technology Assessment (HTA). The aim of this study was to explore the market for free online education in HTA and to assess the prac...

T he Tele-Patient series of "on-the-counter" patient education films produced for use in the pharmacy by A-V Scientific Aids in cooperation with APhA has been on view in several national al}d regional pharmacy chains and in many community pharmacies for the past two years. "Although only 10 of the films produced so far were tailored specifically for pharmacists, we've found that pharmacists are...

OBJECTIVES To describe the development and validation of an instrument designed to assess student perceptions of physician-pharmacist interprofessional clinical education (SPICE). METHODS Faculty members from pharmacy and medical schools developed items for the instrument, and 179 medical and pharmacy students completed the scale. Psychometric properties, including reliability and construct v...

An initiative of the Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (formerly the Center for the Advancement of Pharmaceutical Education) (CAPE), the CAPE Educational Outcomes are intended to be the target toward which the evolving pharmacy curriculum should be aimed. Their development was guided by an advisory panel composed of educators and practitioners nominated for participation by pract...

In this world of specialization and globalization the pharmacy education in India is suffering from serious backdrops and flaws. There is an urgent need to initiate an academic exercise aimed at attaining revamping of curriculum, keeping in pace with current and emerging trends in the field of pharmacy. Unfortunately all these years, enough emphasis was not laid on strengthening the components ...

Background: The PHAR-QA, "Quality Assurance in European Pharmacy Education and Training", project has produced the European Pharmacy Competence Framework (EPCF). The aim of this study was to evaluate the existing pharmacy programme at the University of Tartu, using the EPCF. Methods: A qualitative assessment of the pharmacy programme by a convenience sample (n = 14) representing different pharm...

Pharmacy education has undergone a radical change as it evolves towards becoming a more patient oriented profession. With a greater emphasis on problem based teaching and competency, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), supported by its reliability and validity became the gold standard for the evaluation of clinical skills of undergraduate students of medicine and pharmacy worl...