Does the subject content of the pharmacy degree course influence the community pharmacist’s views on competencies for practice?

Atkinson, Jeffrey (author), De Paepe, Kristien (author), Sánchez Pozo, Antonio (author), Rekkas, Dimitrios (author), Volmer, Daisy (author), Hirvonen, Jouni (author), Božič, Borut (author), Skowron, Agnieska (author), Mircioiu, Constantin (author), Marcincal, Annie (author), Koster, Andries (author), Wilson, Keith A. (author), van Schravendijk, Chris (author), Wilkinson, Jamie (author)

Do community pharmacists coming from different educational backgrounds rank the importance of competences for practice differently—or is the way in which they see their profession more influenced by practice than university education? A survey was carried out on 68 competences for pharmacy practice in seven countries with different pharmacy education systems in terms of the relative importance of the subject areas chemical and medicinal sciences. Community pharmacists were asked to rank the competences in terms of relative importance for practice; competences were divided into personal and patient-care competences. The ranking was very similar in the seven countries suggesting that evaluation of competences for practice is based more on professional experience than on prior university education. There were some differences for instance in research-related competences and these may be influenced, by education.

• Language: English
• Keywords: pharmacy, education, community, practice, competence
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FFA - Faculty of Pharmacy
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: Str. 137-153
• Numbering: Vol. 3, iss. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-130980
• ISSN on article: 2226-4787
• DOI: 10.3390/pharmacy3030137
• COBISS.SI-ID: 108467715
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Pharmacy - A Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice
• Shortened title: Pharmacy
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2226-4787
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3457137

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.09.2015

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: izobraževanje, pedagoška praksa

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Lifelong Learning programme
• Project number: 527194-LLP-1-2012-1-BE-ERASMUS-EMCR