Abstract
A portfolio-related questionnaire survey was conducted involving 95 fifth-year pharmacy students (term 1: 31; term 2: 32; and term 3: 32) who had completed a long-term clinical training program in academic year 2012. Among these students, 69.5% answered that the duration of portfolio evaluation was "appropriate," and 72.6% answered that such evaluation was "very useful" or "useful." In another survey that examined students' understanding of questions arising daily during clinical training involving 32 students of the term-3 group, the rate of correct answers was 58.3% when the students shared such questions and discussed them in presentations after the survey, 39.6% when only a survey was conducted to examine them, and 21.9% when the students did not listen to presentations or self-study. In contrast, their levels of understanding (memory) improved when they made presentations, or participated in discussions after self-study.
