Journal Clubs During Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences to Teach Literature-Evaluation Skills

To determine pharmacy students' attitudes and academic performance related to journal club during 2 advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). Fourth-year pharmacy students were required to complete 3 journal club assignments during drug information and internal medicine APPEs. A majority...

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Published inAmerican journal of pharmaceutical education Vol. 76; no. 5; p. 1
Main Authors Arif, Sally A, Gim, Suzanna, Nogid, Anna, Shah, Bupendra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Alexandria Elsevier Limited 30.05.2012
Subjects
Accreditation
Behavioral Objectives
Clubs
College students
Critical thinking
Documentation
Health education
Internal medicine
Learning
Likert scale
Medicine
Outcomes of Education
Pharmaceutical Education
Pharmacy
Student attitudes
Studies
Thinking Skills
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Summary:To determine pharmacy students' attitudes and academic performance related to journal club during 2 advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). Fourth-year pharmacy students were required to complete 3 journal club assignments during drug information and internal medicine APPEs. A majority (91.3%) of the 105 students who responded to a 21-item survey instrument indicated that journal club assignments during the drug-information APPE were valuable to their understanding of research design and statistics. Students who completed the drug-information APPE before the internal medicine APPE scored higher on their understanding of the strengths and weaknesses and the clinical relevance of studies and had a higher learning slope ( p = 0.01) than did students who completed the internal medicine APPE first. Incorporating journal clubs into APPEs is an effective means of teaching literatureevaluation skills to pharmacy students.
ISSN:0002-9459
1553-6467