Graduation Research in Pharmaceutical Education for Developing Scientific Thinking Skills: Daily Research Activities with Students

Abstract

The work of pharmacists has shifted from object-centered based on dispensing to interpersonal work with a high degree of patient and local-resident interactions, while society has come to require advanced clinical practice skills. To cultivate clinical practice skills, improving themselves as a medical professional and enhancing their problem-solving skills is important, so graduation research is thought to play a major role. This paper introduces the daily laboratory activities of the Laboratory of Promotion of Pharmaceutical Education, with which I am affiliated. At one point, I realized that I was intervening too much in my graduation research guidance to students, which led me to drastically change my guidance methods. I engage with the students in dialog as we conduct the graduation research together, and I believe that trusting the students, entrusting them with the core of the research activities, and increasing their independence in the graduation research helps foster their scientific inquisitiveness.