Does the Subject Content of the Pharmacy Degree Course Influence the Community Pharmacist’s Views on Competencies for Practice?

Pharmacy

Jeffrey Atkinson⁸  Kristien De Paepe¹¹  Antonio Sánchez Pozo⁹  Dimitrios Rekkas¹⁰  Daisy Volmer⁴  Jouni Hirvonen¹⁴  Borut Bozic²  Agnieska Skowron¹²  Constantin Mircioiu⁶  Annie Marcincal^8,13  Andries Koster^5,8  Keith Wilson^1,8  Chris van Schravendijk^7,8  Jamie Wilkinson^3,8 

[1] School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK; E-Mail:;Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Askerceva cesta 7, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia; E-Mail:;Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU), Rue du Luxembourg 19, 1000 Brussels, Belgium; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, Tartu 50411, Estonia; E-Mail:;European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy, Department Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80082, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest, Dionisie Lupu 37, Bucharest 020021, Romania; E-Mail:;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium; E-Mail:;Pharmacology Department, Lorraine University, 5 rue Albert Lebrun, 54000 Nancy, France;Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada (UGR), Campus Universitario de la Cartuja s/n, Granada 18701, Spain; E-Mail:;School of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University Athens, Panepistimiou 30, Athens 10679, Greece; E-Mail:;Department of Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, Brussels 1090, Belgium; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, Jagiellonian University, UL, Golebia 24, Krakow 31-007, Poland; E-Mail:;European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Lille 2, Lille 59000, France; E-Mail:;Pharmacy Faculty, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4, P.O. Box 33-4, Helsinki 00014, Finland; E-Mail:

关键词: pharmacy;    education;    community;    practice;    competence;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pharmacy3030137

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

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