New Insights into Pharmacy Teaching and Learning during COVID-19

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced everyday life for all of us during the last 500 days. However, the younger generations are particular casualties, as they are affected from both a professional (educational) and personal point of view during their formative years. Both pharmacy students and their educators have been under a considerable level of stress as remote learning became a “new normal” way of teaching. This is in direct contrast to the “regular way” of teaching pharmacy, with significant teaching hours in community pharmacies and different laboratories. We can speculate that experiential learning has been, hopefully partially and temporarily, replaced by simulations and remote learning. However, educators worldwide have responded imaginatively and creatively to these COVID-19-related limitations, and those experiences should be shared with colleagues worldwide, as the burden of the pandemic is shared among us all. Furthermore, studies that compare differences between knowledge, skills, and attitudes of pharmacy students, before and during COVID-19, are warranted.

We invite you to share your experiences in a concrete and practical way that aims to support pharmacy educators worldwide during COVID-19.

Dr. Darko Modun
Dr. Ana Seselja Perisin
Guest Editors

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