We conducted an investigation to determine whether the visual analogue scale (VAS) method could be utilized in evaluating the lectures and pharmacy experience of the Division of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University. Graduate students who had finished the 1-year pharmacy experience at the Kanazawa University Hospital were asked to m...

Background: Community Pharmacy Placements are an integral component of the pharmacy curriculum. Their success relies heavily on the willingness and capability of pharmacists to precept. Aims: To explore community pharmacy preceptors’ perceptions about factors that assist them facilitate student learning, and the corresponding pharmacy students’ perception of their experiential learning. Method:...

Objectives. To assess students’ perspectives on including education about herbal supplements in the curriculum. Methods. A 17-item questionnaire was distributed during regularly scheduled classes to third-, fourth-, and fifth-year pharmacy students. Results. A majority of the students perceived their knowledge of herbal supplements was inadequate. Almost all (95%) students reported a need to le...

Objectives. This study was designed to assess the extent to which 7 traditional and novel predictors contribute to overall pharmacy grade point average (pharmacy GPA), first through third year pharmacy GPA (1-3 year GPA), and clerkship GPA of pharmacy students. Methods. This investigation used a convenience sample and a blinded retrospective record review of the first 3 class years of Doctor of...

Pharmaceutical care has been incorporated into the mission statements of virtually every pharmacy organization, including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). As such, a major objective of pharmacy educators is to graduate pharmacists who are both capable and willing to render pharmaceutical care. The present investigation explores the notion that the moral reasoning skills ...

Aim: To assess the attitude of medical and pharmacy students in Asian and African universities towards scholarly research activities. Methods: An anonymous, cross-sectional, self-reported online survey questionnaire was administered to medical and pharmacy students studying in various Asian and African universities through social media between May and July 2016. A 68-item close-ended questionna...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The mission of the medicine and pharmacy programs at the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus is to prepare students for practice in rural communities. To support and encourage medical and pharmacy students to choose to practice in rural Minnesota, an interprofessional experience was developed to expose medical and pharmacy students to a variety of aspects of rural h...

Pharmacy students should have a sufficient level of knowledge, skills, and attitude to practice pharmaceutical care effectively in the routine practice in the community pharmacy. Moreover, the strong cooperation between pharmacists and physicians is strongly needed in the process of providing pharmaceutical care. The aim of the study was to investigate the opinions of students of the Faculty of...

Pharmacy education in the United States is currently in a state of transition as the nation’s schools of pharmacy move from the five-year Bachelor of Science degree to the Doctor of Pharmacy degree. At this same time, applications to pharmacy schools have fallen for two consecutive years. Because of these trends, a potential concern for pharmacy educators is losing highly qualified students to ...

There is an increasing demand for high-quality experiential placements for pharmacy students. As a result, pharmacy schools across Canada are confronted with the need to find innovative ways to expand experiential educational rotations. Near-peer teaching is one model with the potential to address this issue. Near-peer teaching involves the provision of learning support to junior students by th...