The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health S303, Pharmacy and Bank Building A15, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Laboratório de Reabilitação Psicossocial, Centro de Investigação em Reabilitação (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ESS-IPP), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
Laboratório de Reabilitação Psicossocial, Centro de Investigação em Reabilitação (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ESS-IPP), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
Laboratório de Reabilitação Psicossocial, Centro de Investigação em Reabilitação (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ESS-IPP), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy, Division of Clinical Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, School of Therapeutic Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, 7 York road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa. Electronic address: Razeeya.Khan@wits.ac.za.
Specializations within doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) programs allow student pharmacists to advance their knowledge and expertise in a specific area of pharmacy. The purpose of this manuscript is to expa...
A pediatric pharmacotherapy and acute care pharmacotherapy specialization are described. The development of the specializations and assessment strategies are discussed. Student feedback in addition to...
Sixty students completed the patient care specializations by completing the specialization coursework, which included extra assignments and a research project. A total of 34 students (57%) who complet...
Patient care specializations allow students to develop skills used in specialty areas, and these added skills may help them be successful in finding postgraduate training related to the specialization...
A 3-day pharmacy summer camp for high school and college students was implemented, which included active learning and information on the pharmacy curriculum, preparatory coursework, and the university...
Enrollment data were collected for the 194 participants from 2016 to 2019 to examine the number that applied to the university and to a pharmacy program. All participants from the summer 2022 cohort (...
Data show that overall, 33% of past participants enrolled at the University at Buffalo, and 15% enrolled or intended to enroll in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. There were 50 resp...
Students who participated in a pharmacy hands-on educational camp demonstrated knowledge of and increased interest in the pharmacy profession....
Self-managed medical abortions are generally safe; however, pharmacy provision of abortion pills is against the Ghanaian abortion law. Nevertheless, evidence shows increasing numbers of women use it. ...
We conducted 26 interviews with eight pharmacy workers and 18 women who sought hospital care after using abortion pills. Study participants were recruited from private pharmacies and hospitals within ...
Results show that criminalising medical abortion care from pharmacies does not stop abortions but rather drives it to be provided without oversight. It also denied pharmacy workers formal training in ...
Due to the increasing numbers of Ghanaian women using medical abortion pills from pharmacies, although it is illegal, the ideal would be for medical abortion pills to be made legally available through...
Implicit biases can contribute to unfair treatment in healthcare and exacerbate healthcare disparities. Little is known about the implicit biases that exist within pharmacy practice and their behavior...
Sixty-two second-year pharmacy students attended a lecture on implicit bias in healthcare and engaged in an assignment designed to explore their thoughts about how implicit bias manifests or may manif...
Students reported several examples in which implicit bias may emerge in pharmacy practice. Various forms of potential bias were identified including bias associated with patients' race, ethnicity, and...
Pharmacy students believed that implicit biases manifested in many different ways and were potentially associated with behaviors that resulted in unequal treatment in pharmacy practice. Future studies...
Designed to address the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada's competency "teach pharmacy team members, the public, and other health care professionals," the PHArmacy Students as Educators (...
We performed a two-year pilot (2017-2019) of the PHASE program which consists of a large-group didactic session followed by an academic half-day (AHD) session. Evaluation was conducted using Likert-sc...
All students in the 2020 and 2021 graduating cohorts were included in the study following consent. We determined that while respondents agreed to the statement, "A role of a pharmacist includes being ...
Overall, the PHASE program showed positive impact during the first two years of implementation and lessons learned from the pilot are discussed....
Pharmacy compounding of medicines is an essential part of patient care as it enables pharmacists to provide customized pharmaceutical care when no suitable commercial medicine is available. A distinct...
Pharmacists trained in veterinary pharmacy play important roles in community, hospital, academic, and industry settings. To date, there is limited available veterinary pharmacy education within Doctor...
A comprehensive literature search was conducted across four databases. Authors screened studies against relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria using a two-stage screening process....
Sixteen studies met the inclusion criteria. Nine studies described veterinary pharmacy elective courses, three articles described related educational activities, and four articles focused on experient...
Little literature describes or evaluates veterinary pharmacy education within US schools and colleges of pharmacy. Future research may investigate additional ways in which institutions teach and asses...
Cultural competence is an important attribute underpinning interactions between healthcare professionals, such as pharmacists, and patients from ethnic minority communities. Health- and medicines-rela...
Semistructured interviews were conducted in-person, over the telephone or via video call, between October and December 2022. Perspectives on cultural competence and training were discussed. Interviews...
Fourteen participants working in community pharmacies were interviewed, including eight qualified pharmacists, one foundation trainee pharmacist, three pharmacy technicians/dispensers and two counter ...
The results of this study offer new insights and suggestions on the delivery of cultural competence training to community pharmacy staff, students and trainees entering the profession. Collaborative c...
The Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement group at Newcastle University had input in the study design and conceptualisation. Two patient champions inputted to ensure that the study was conduct...
To present 2018-2019 data from an expanded investigation after an inaugural 2016 pilot survey, which previously reported on the delivery of pharmacy law education in doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) progra...
Due to the limited scope of responses in the 2016 pilot study, the earlier survey was refined and readministered (Qualtrics, Provo, UT) utilizing branching logic to specifically identify characteristi...
Of the 142 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy member institutions in 2018, 97 provided complete responses to the survey, yielding a response rate of 68.3%. The survey results from this 2018-...
The current data show PharmD curricula at surveyed institutions lack uniformity in pharmacy law content and sequencing of pharmacy law courses, supporting further investigation to identify the best pr...
In the last few decades, pharmacy services have expanded to fulfil the need for more complex health needs from population worldwide. Moving from 'product-centred' to a 'patient-centred' profession, ph...
