2020 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 49-56
In this study, we developed a multi-disciplinary home medical training program for pharmacy students. The purpose of this program is to train pharmacists to be active in the field of home medical care. The training was conducted at a clinic that provided medical care and had a long-term care facility. The training period was two weeks, and the training method was on the job training, where the pharmacy students accompanied the patients and medical staff, who had different occupations, throughout the facility. Ten pharmacy students participated in the training, and all of the trainees were experienced at accompanying doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. At the patient facility, all of the trainees were able to attend and learn from the healthcare provided by medical staff with different occupations, such as physical therapists, public health nurses, helpers, and occupational therapists. The training locations were various facilities related to home medical care, such as the patient homes, home-related facilities, and home-visit nursing stations. The training provided to the pharmacists was through accompanying doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and physical therapists during end-of-life care, pre-discharge conferences, and case conferences. In the report written by the trainees after the training, life, trust, multi-professional roles, the roles of other occupations, the exercise of expertise, information sharing, and death were extracted as keywords for home medical care. The degree of satisfaction and understanding of the trainees for the training was high, and this program was evaluated as effective and useful.
