Importance–performance analysis: Perception gap between community pharmacy preceptors and students

This study compared students’ and preceptors’ perceptions of the latter’s role importance performance during community pharmacy experiential practice (CPEP) under newly implemented two + four-year programme in South Korea. cross-sectional was based on nationwide surveys adopted importance–performance analysis (IPA) multivariate analysis. A total 390 preceptors 1138 preceptees CPEP participated. Overall evaluation positive both groups. Students rated higher than did (average gap: 0.13). Further, students their lower −0.22). In IPA, considered that “pharmacists’ ethics adherence” crucial great, while they regarded “systematically organising activities” as highly important with low performance. “being a model or mentor” (3.56/4.0) but evaluated (3.12/4.0). More efforts are needed to reduce discrepancies between CPEP.