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Incorporation of a mock pharmacy and therapeutics committee as an entrustable professional activity supporting task
- Source :
- Currents in pharmacy teachinglearning. 13(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) denote activities and tasks students should be able to perform by graduation irrespective of their practice setting. Formulary decision-making includes several core EPA related skills, such as utilization of drug information, written, and verbal skills. The objective of this study was to describe an EPA supporting task aimed at improving utilization of evidence-based medicine skills and its impact on student self-perceived confidence, rating of skills needed, and competence.Teams comprised of six to seven students were assigned a drug and instructed to complete the following activities: (1) background literature search, (2) drug monograph, (3) five-min presentation to simulate a live pharmacy and therapeutics (PT) committee meeting, and (4) vote on a formulary drug in each drug class. Students completed a pre/post five-point Likert scale self-efficacy survey and a perceived importance survey. A scoring rubric assessed monograph and presentation elements (max points 30). Survey items were analyzed using Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Descriptive statistics were used for assignment grades.One hundred ninety students completed the pre/post self-efficacy and perceived importance survey. Confidence showed statistically significant improvement (P.001) in nine target skill areas. In ranking importance, all 12 assessed skills exhibited a statistically significant increase following the activity.A mock PT activity represents an innovative way to evaluate an EPA supporting task that allows students to improve their evidence-based analysis, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Subjects :
- 020205 medical informatics
education
Pharmacy
02 engineering and technology
Likert scale
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Formulary
Competence (human resources)
Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Medical education
business.industry
Communication
Rubric
Test (assessment)
Students, Pharmacy
Clinical Competence
business
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18771300
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Currents in pharmacy teachinglearning
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bb33f0f569ecb480197ab10ce94edf37