|
KMID : 0370220140580030208
|
|
Yakhak Hoeji
2014 Volume.58 No. 3 p.208 ~ p.222
|
|
|
An Analysis of Pharmacy Students’ Perceptions and Evaluations after Community Pharmacy Practice Experiences
|
|
Yang Young-Mo
Lee Ji-Eun
Lee Ik-Soo
Choi Eun-Joo
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Pharmacy practice experiences play a central role in improving the professional abilities and roles of student pharmacists in the changed ’2+4’-year curricula of Korean pharmacy schools. For the first 3 years, the students usually learn theoretical areas, and for the last year, they apply learned knowledge to actual pharmacy practice environments. Especially, in order for community pharmacy practice experiences to become firmly established, it is important to evaluate students’ feedbacks of community pharmacy practice experiences. However, there have been little studies regarding this area in Korea. This study was to analyze pharmacy students’ perceptions and evaluations after community pharmacy practice experiences. The self-reported questionnaire using a 5-point Likert scale was utilized to collect data from the pharmacy students completing community pharmacy practice experiences. Total 62 students responded to the survey questionnaires. The average of students’ evaluations of preceptors for overall evaluation items was 4.31 whereas that of student evaluations of practice sites for them was 4.03. The self-evaluations of students’ expertises were mostly positive except for that of populations care. The evaluation item ’I believe this experience will help me be a better pharmacist’ received the highest satisfaction. According to the results regarding open-ended questions, the students learned the needs for academic motivations and self-developments, and they thought that the curriculum should be standardized and systematized in order to improve contents for community pharmacy practice experiences. Furthermore, based on these results, the guidelines of community pharmacy practice experiences should be modified, and researches on the validation and evaluations of the modified guidelines should be implemented.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
community pharmacy, pharmacy education, pharmacy practice, practice experience, pharmacy student
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|