background: adverse drug reactions (adrs) are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and contribute to excessive health care costs. detection and reporting of adrs could decrease these consequences. the present study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of pharmacy students towards adrs monitoring and reporting. methods: a questionnaire was prepared to...

BACKGROUND In Australia, the profession of pharmacy has undergone many changes to adapt to the needs of the community. In recent years, concerns have been raised with evidence emerging of workforce saturation in traditional pharmacy practice sectors. It is not known how current final year pharmacy students' perceive the different pharmacy career paths in this changing environment. Hence investi...

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the attitudes of medical and pharmacy students towards physician-pharmacist collaboration and explore their opinions about the barriers to collaborative practice in Kuwait. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of pharmacy and medical students (n=467) was conducted in Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, Kuwait University. Data were collected via self-administered qu...

This study examined the predictive power of six independent variables on pharmacy students’ academic performance across demographic variables. The study also developed a profile of pharmacy students who were more likely to have academic success and difficulty. A total of 437 pharmacy students from all three pharmacy schools in Texas participated in this study. Results showed that prepharmacy GP...

UNLABELLED Hazardous use of alcohol continues to be recognized as a problem at the university level. Knowledge regarding alcohol consumption in healthcare professional students is limited, especially in regards to pharmacy students. Much of the information available focuses on pharmacy student drinking patterns in specific geographic regions or is simply outdated. OBJECTIVE This study was des...

OBJECTIVES To adapt and evaluate an instrument that measures perceived psychological contract violations in pharmacy students by schools and colleges of pharmacy. DESIGN A psychological contract violations measure was developed from existing literature and the 1997 ACPE Guidelines and pilot-tested with second-year pharmacy students at 2 schools of pharmacy. A revised measure then was administ...

The focus of pharmacy practice and education has changed over the past decade. In the past, pharmacy practice and education were focused primarily on drugs and their distribution. The suggestion of pharmacy practice centered on the patient was first articulated by Hepler and Strand in 1990 as pharmaceutical care.1 The concept of pharmaceutical care quickly became adopted by the profession. By t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the moral development of pharmacy students over their first academic year of study at a university in the United Kingdom. METHODS Pharmacy students completed Defining Issues Test (DIT) at the start of their first year (phase 1) and again at the end of their first year (phase 2) of the program. RESULTS Pharmacy students (N=116) had significantly higher moral reasonin...

Interactive pharmacy case studies are an essential component of the pharmacy curriculum. We recently developed an elective course at the Rangel College of Pharmacy in pharmacy case studies for second- and third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students using Second Life® (SL), an interactive three-dimensional virtual environment that simulates the real world. This course explored the use of SL for educa...

PURPOSE In Pakistan, courses in pharmacy practice, which are an essential component of the PharmD curriculum, were launched with the aim of strengthening pharmacy practice overall and enabling pharmacy students to cope with the challenges involved in meeting real-world healthcare needs. Since very little research has assessed the efficacy of such courses, we aimed to evaluate students' percepti...