For many decades, the healthcare sector has been playing catchup with other industries in terms of innovation, primarily due to the low number of healthcare professionals with innovation and entrepreneurship skills in the workplace. The lack of innovation skills, particularly among pharmacists, may result from the fact that innovation and…

Despite the routine use of high-fidelity patient simulation (HFPS) in health care disciplines, pharmacy residents' involvement in HFPS is limited. To evaluate pharmacy residents' self-reported confidence in their clinical skills dealing with acute medical scenarios. Three separate HFPS sessions (stroke, Advanced cardiovascular life support [ACLS],…

Background: It is crucial to use innovative tools to gain clinical reasoning skills through experiential learning in pharmacy education, and one of the most effective tools used in this is virtual reality. However, the lack of research that empirically demonstrates the instructional principles of virtual environment design, especially in the…

The Object-Based Learning (OBL) program at the Chau Chak Wing Museum provides bespoke experiences supported by the Academic Engagement team. This paper explores OBL as a pedagogical approach to stimulating student interest in studying the history of pharmacy. OBL workshops were implemented for a cohort of 311 first-year undergraduate pharmacy…

Establishing and maintaining a highly-trained pharmaceutical workforce is crucial for serving the healthcare needs of the population. Globally, various factors have been associated with the decision of students leaving high school to pursue an undergraduate degree in pharmacy, however, this topic has not yet been explored in Vietnam. To explore…

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Achievement Goal Orientation, Self-Efficacy, and Academic Dishonesty among college students during online learning. Method: A total of 238 students from students colleges in Indonesia completed an online questionnaire consisting of scales measuring Achievement Goal Orientation,…

International pharmacy students enhance the healthcare landscape through unique vantage points and diverse communication abilities. Their impact actualizes beyond pharmacy settings into community service arenas. This paper describes a collaboration between international pharmacy students and a statewide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) needs…

Biopharmaceuticals are gaining high relevance in the pharmaceutical industry and market, due to their specific design for many therapeutic conditions and ability to restore biological functions. As a matter of fact, gene therapy products have been studied and developed in the past several years, and more recently, they arouse real interest as…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to human health. Education on antibiotics is essential for AMR prevention, and training should be provided for undergraduate pharmacy students. This study evaluated the knowledge regarding antibiotic use and AMR among fourth-year Japanese pharmacy students and the effect of a lecture on treating…

This study aimed to understand the knowledge, application, and perspective of B. Pharm students regarding artificial intelligence (AI) tools. This study used a quantitative cross-sectional observational design, and data were collected using a questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed among B. Pharm students in India, and 305 participants…

The importance of studies showing the impact of students' epistemic beliefs on their conceptual learning and academic progress is increasing. This study investigated pharmacy students' domain-specific epistemic cognition and topic-specific beliefs related to their level of conceptual prior knowledge, learning and study progress during the first…

The purpose of this article is to describe the creation and implementation of a faculty student mentoring program at an accelerated school of pharmacy, and to review 'best practices' relating to mentoring programs.

This paper documents play in the context of technoscience education in India. Drawing on data from an ethnography of a pharma college, it describes youthful, pedagogic, and professional play. Youthful "masti" subverted rigor. At the college, it was amplified into a festival and monetized by social networking sites. Pedagogic and…

West Virginia's three state-funded medical schools enroll more medical students per capita than any other state in the country. Due to its large number of medical student slots, the state typically can offer all qualified West Virginians the opportunity to complete their medical education in the state. In the academic year of 2023-2024, 27 percent…

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and Work Based Assessments (WBAs) are the mainstays of assessing clinical competency in health professions' education. Underpinned by the extrapolation inference in Kane's Validity Framework, the purpose of this study is to determine whether OSCEs translate to real life performance by comparing…