Pharmacy Education and Student/Practitioner Training

The editorial board of “Pharmacy: Section Pharmacy Education and Student/Practitioner Training” welcomes suggestions for material on teaching matters—didactics, teaching and evaluation methods. These will include contributions on issues such as:

• Pre-registration pharmacy education and training for students
• Post-registration pharmacy education and training for practitioners
• The philosophy, production and use of competence frameworks, and experience with competence-based pharmacy education and training
• Curriculum design and assessment, innovations in teaching and learning, interprofessional learning
• Continuous professional development, revalidation, roles of the employer and employee
• Quality assurance of education and training
• The interaction and integration of teaching with health services
• Future developments in education and training for pharmacy, including theories and methods

Contributions can be in the form of:

• Reviews: comprehensive, fully-referenced papers on teaching or research topics (maximum 25 double-spaced pages).
• Research articles: experimental or observational investigations using formal data collection and reporting of results (maximum 25 double-spaced pages).
• Letters to the editor: contributions to a forum for the expression of ideas or comments on matters previously published articles in the journal commentaries (maximum 4 double-spaced pages).
• Commentaries: less formal contributions with more flexible chapter headings along the lines of: introduction, design and evaluation, discussion and conclusions. “Design” could be design of a course, a curriculum, an educational intervention (maximum 25 double-spaced pages).

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed.