2019 年 45 巻 10 号 p. 596-603
Model Core Curriculum for Pharmacy Education (2013 version) presents eight disease areas as the minimum medical conditions, and it requires student trainees to be continuously engaged in pharmacotherapy for these diseases. We developed an “Individual Student Report Form” (Report Form) in order to investigate and evaluate each student trainee's engagement and continuity with the eight diseases. The Report Forms were shared between the community pharmacy, hospital, and university, and the effectiveness of collaboration among these institutions was examined.
Participants were 25 student trainees who were planning to do their clinical practicums in our hospital in the second term of 2017. During the earlier pharmacy practicum, the trainees were asked to complete the Report Form regarding the diseases they handled. Trainees took notes on the Report Form during their daily reflection time in their hospital practicums about their engagement with the eight diseases. We calculated the cumulative total numbers and percentages of their engagement with the eight diseases to examine engagement rates and continuity across terms.
The percentages of trainees who were engaged with all eight diseases were 36％ (9/25 persons) at the pharmacy, 24％ (6/25) at the hospital, and 68％ (17/25) overall at the two locations. The average numbers of the eight tracked diseases that trainees were engaged with were 2.3 at the pharmacy, 3.8 at the hospital, and 4.5 in total. The findings of this study suggest that this tracking tool could help facilitate and efficiently transfer information about the disease engagement of trainees during their two pharmacy practicums.
