Pharmacy Education: State-of-the-Art, Contemporary and Historical Perspectives in Australia

A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacy Education and Student/Practitioner Training".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 3834

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Dear Colleagues,

In the 21st century, pharmacy education in Australia and globally has experienced continuing change to learning and teaching practices due to government policies and bodies such as TEQSA (https://www.teqsa.gov.au/), generational change due to the entry of “digital natives”, and uncertainty in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges and opportunities have been and continue to be met by educators with innovation, collaboration, research, and new modes and modalities of teaching such as online video conferencing, simulation, virtual reality, flipped classes, and interprofessional assessment.

You are invited to share your learning and teaching innovations,  techniques, technology, assessment, and challenges with colleagues in this special edition of Pharmacy. The focus may include the development of new styles of assessment and examination of pharmacy students, new formats of workplace learning, development of core communication skills such as patient education and counselling, provision of new services, through to development of attributes such as empathy and social accountability.

We hope this Special Edition will encourage Australian and non-Australian Pharmacy Educators in hectic and uncertain times to curate and share their solutions to educational challenges, to adopt/adapt new practices, and to collaborate to address future opportunities.

Dr. Maree Donna Simpson
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Keywords

  • problem solving
  • fit-for-purpose education
  • innovation
  • online learning
  • simulation
  • competency
  • accountability
  • student outcomes

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Self-Reflection and Peer-Assessments Effect on Pharmacy Students’ Performance at Simulated Counselling Sessions
by Andrew Bartlett, Jessica Pace, Angela Arora and Jonathan Penm
Pharmacy 2023, 11(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11010005 - 27 Dec 2022
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Introduction: Verbal communication is a vital skill for pharmacists and essential for improving patient care. The aim of this study was to explore students’ perception of the impact of self-reflection and self- and peer-assessment on simulated patient counselling sessions. Methods: Focus groups explored [...] Read more.
Introduction: Verbal communication is a vital skill for pharmacists and essential for improving patient care. The aim of this study was to explore students’ perception of the impact of self-reflection and self- and peer-assessment on simulated patient counselling sessions. Methods: Focus groups explored student perceptions of how this course and way of learning has impacted their performance at counselling patients. Data were analysed using iterative inductive thematic analysis procedures and mapped to the self-determination theory. Results: Nine focus groups with 47 pharmacy students. We identified three main themes and ten associated subthemes. These were learning style (sub-themes gradual introduction to assessment, learning through self-reflection videos, authentic assessment, individual learning compared to group learning, and learning through observation of best practice), feedback (sub-themes inconsistent feedback, summative feedback, perception of self and relationship with peers informing peer assessment) and benefits in real life practice. These themes mapped well to self-determination theory and highlighted that additional focus may be required for benefits in real-life practice. Conclusion: Students’ perceptions of self-reflection and self- and peer-assessment centred on learning style, feedback, and benefits in real-life practice. Additional focus on benefits of this unit of study in real-life practice and work integrated learning on placements may further strengthen the impact of these learning activities. Full article
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