抄録
Fifth-grade students in six-year pharmacy schools are required to complete practical training at a pharmacy (11 weeks) and hospital (11 weeks). In our hospital, we developed a training program for pharmacy students on inpatient pharmaceutical care skills. In our inpatient pharmaceutical care program, pharmacy students worked on both internal medicine wards and surgical wards for a total duration of 4 weeks. We adopted the portfolio system on the Web, and pharmacy students submitted case reports to the portfolio system. Furthermore, we added a new practical pathway system to the ward program to construct a high-quality education system.
In this study, we examined the educational utility of the practical pathway system in our hospital. The number of case reports submitted by pharmacy students did not alter the introduction of the practical pathway system. However, the rate of learning about drugs significantly increased through the performance of the practical pathway system. It was therefore considered that the practical pathway system is a useful method of providing pharmacy students with inpatient pharmaceutical care skills training to nurture pharmacists.
