Finding significant indicators of PharmD academic performance to impact future students.

Autor: Albuquerque EL; The University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX, United States of America. Electronic address: estheralbuquerque@utexas.edu., Acosta WR; The University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX, United States of America., Lawson KA; The University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning [Curr Pharm Teach Learn] 2024 Nov; Vol. 16 (11), pp. 102168. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cptl.2024.102168
Abstrakt: Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify which factors, both objective and subjective, from a student pharmacist's background are significantly related to academic performance in the professional PharmD program.
Methods: Texas student pharmacists in their first three professional years during the 2022-2023 academic year were invited to participate in a 41-item survey to gather data on their undergraduate background, work experience, grit, and academic resilience. The survey responses were paired with the student pharmacist's cumulative grade point average (GPA) to assess the relationships between the variables and academic performance using Mann-Whitney U tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests, and Spearman's correlations.
Results: Two hundred and fifty-one student pharmacists currently enrolled in a PharmD program in Texas responded to the survey invitation. Spearman's rho correlations showed weak positive and significant relationships between GPA and Grit scores as well as GPA and Resilience scores. Additionally, there is a moderate positive and significant relationship between student pharmacists' Grit and Resilience scores.
Conclusion: The results suggest that assessing for Grit or Resilience as part of the admission process could aid in identifying future student pharmacists who would experience pharmacy school academic success. Integrating tools that develop Grit and Resilience in the PharmD curriculum could improve student pharmacists' academic performance.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors have no financial disclosures or conflicts of interest to report for this study.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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