Introduction and Evaluation of Communication Skill Practice as Pharmaceutical Care Training for Pharmaceutical Graduate Students in the Program as Part of the Hospital Pharmacy Course

Abstract

We conducted training in communication skills as part of the pharmaceutical care training for graduate students studying at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University. In this study, we made a questionnaire survey of the graduate students' views on this pharmaceutical care training program. The results showed that almost all students found the communication skills training to be useful in helping (simulated) patients to comply with instructions. This communication skills training is thus considered to be useful for improving pharmaceutical care training for graduate students training to become hospital pharmacist's section.