Background The role of peer teachers in interprofessional education has not been extensively studied. This study is designed to determine if peer-teacher-led problem-based seminars can influence medical and pharmacy students' perceptions of interprofessional education. Methods Undergraduate medical and pharmacy students participated in one-hour problem-based learning seminars held over the cour...

The purpose of this study was to assess the level of caring ability of a sample of pharmacy students and assess the relationship between selected predictor variables and pharmacy students' caring ability. Caring was viewed as the ability to assume responsibility for the protection and welfare of another without being perfunctory or begrudging. Questionnaires, including the Caring Ability Invent...

Issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 include practice model growth and the role of pharmacy students, clinical privileging of health-system pharmacists and provider status, medication error prevention, and specialty pharmacy services. The goal of this article is to provide practical approaches to 4 issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 to help them focus their department's goals. This articl...

INTRODUCTION Patient safety is a major health care concern and is being included in an undergraduate curriculum as it plays a major role in lessening harm. Therefore, we aim to assess the attitude of pharmacy students toward patient safety. METHODS A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire containing 21 items was conducted at the University of Gondar among fourth and fif...

INTRODUCTION This study is aimed to investigate the understanding of antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance and its correlate factors among final-year medical and pharmacy students at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). METHODOLOGY This was a cross-sectional study. The study instrument was developed by extensive literature search and was subjected to face validity and content ...

OBJECTIVE To date, there are few data on pharmacy-specific placement programs and their impact on students' work after graduation. The present study evaluated an innovative rural pharmacy placement program targeted at influencing students to work and live in rural areas after graduation. A secondary aim of the study was to explore the students' intentions to come back and practice in rural area...

Interprofessional learning is a key component of today's health sciences education. Within a two-course series in dental pharmacology and therapeutics, a dental curriculum was revised to provide an interprofessional activity to expose dental students to a community pharmacy setting. The objectives of this activity were to augment students' learning about drug laws and prescription writing, as w...

AIMS In flu pandemics, pharmacy students' knowledge, attitudes, and practices are critical to save patients life. The objective of study was to determine the knowledge of and attitude toward the pandemic influenza among the pharmacy students of Karachi, Pakistan. SETTINGS AND DESIGNS The cross-sectional study was conducted from September to December 2014 by adopting a prevalidated questionnai...

OBJECTIVES To assess and compare first- and third-year Czech pharmacy students' attitudes toward CAM, CAM use, CAM evidence, recommending CAM to patients, and including CAM in the pharmacy curricula. METHODS The CAM Health Belief Questionnaire (CHBQ) was translated from English to Czech and administered to 250 first-year and 187 third-year students. RESULTS The students' mean CHBQ score was...

OBJECTIVE To implement and assess a required public health poster project in a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program. DESIGN Third-year PharmD students collaborated in pairs to research a public health topic relating to pharmacy practice. Each student group prepared an informational poster, while receiving feedback from a faculty mentor at each stage of the project. The students presented their...