2021 Volume 5 Article ID: 2020-008
Pharmacy education must consider a balance between the two social requirements of quality assurance and reasonable accommodation. As a long-term effort toward achieving this purpose, we have created a forum to discuss the balance between quality assurance and reasonable accommodation in pharmacy education. In this study, we held a workshop for deeper discussion and sharing, with examples of medical education, leading up to professional education/unprofessional evaluation, and of actively working on inclusion/reasonable accommodation. Several problems were highlighted, including issues concerning reasonable accommodation, how to proceed with practical training, evaluation and credit recognition, and recognition of problems varies among educators. However, it is difficult to form a consensus on the necessary considerations and standards, and even if they are established, the situation and characteristics of students, who face difficulty, are diverse and cannot be applied to individual students. Therefore, values need to be formed through continuous discussions and sharing of experience in order to provide reasonable accommodations tailored to individual students.
