A Continuous Professional Development Process for First-Year Pharmacy Students
| Autor: | Mona A. Gandhi, Richard O'Brocta, Asim Abu-Baker, Parag Budukh, Christine R. Birnie, Jill E. Lavigne |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Program evaluation
Educational measurement Instructional Design and Assessment Process (engineering) education Pharmacy Pilot Projects Education Feedback Nursing ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Medicine Humans Learning General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Education Pharmacy Continuing Program Development Curriculum Medical education Academic year business.industry General Medicine Faculty humanities Continuing professional development Students Pharmacy Education Pharmacy Educational Measurement Training program business Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | Objectives. To develop, pilot test, and evaluate a continuous professional development (CPD) process for first-year pharmacy (P1) students. Design. Students and faculty members were introduced to the important elements of the CPD process via a live training program. Students completed the year-long 4-step CPD cycle by identifying a learning objective, creating a plan, completing the learning activity, evaluating their learning outcome, documenting each step, and meeting with their faculty advisor for feedback and advice. Assessment. Seventy-five first-year students (100%) successfully completed the CPD process during the 2009-2010 academic year. The students spent an average of 7 hours (range 2 to 20 hours) on the CPD process. The majority of faculty members (83%) completing the survey instrument found the process valuable for the students and would like to see the program continued. Conclusion. Integrating a CPD requirement for students in a college or school of pharmacy is feasible and valuable to students’ developing life-long learning skills. Effective and frequent training of faculty members and students is a key element in the CPD process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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