OBJECTIVE: To determine pharmacy students' attitudes and academic performance related to journal club during 2 advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). DESIGN: Fourth-year pharmacy students were required to complete 3 journal club assignments during drug information and internal medicine APPEs. ASSESSMENT: 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. CONCLUSION: Incorporating journal clubs into APPEs is an effective means of teaching literature-evaluation skills to pharmacy students.
OBJECTIVE: To determine pharmacy students' attitudes and academic performance related to journal club during 2 advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). DESIGN: Fourth-year pharmacy students were required to complete 3 journal club assignments during drug information and internal medicine APPEs. ASSESSMENT: 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. CONCLUSION: Incorporating journal clubs into APPEs is an effective means of teaching literature-evaluation skills to pharmacy students.
Keywords:
advanced pharmacy practice experiences; drug information; journal club; literature evaluation
Authors: Andrew G Lee; H Culver Boldt; Karl C Golnik; Anthony C Arnold; Thomas A Oetting; Hilary A Beaver; Richard J Olson; Keith Carter Journal: Surv Ophthalmol Date: 2005 Nov-Dec Impact factor: 6.048
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