Competencies for the provision of comprehensive medication management services in an experiential learning project.

Simone De Araújo Medina Mendonça,Djenane Ramalho De Oliveira,Erika Lourenço De Freitas,Etsuro Ito

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185415

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Journal: PloS one	Publication Date: Sep 26, 2017
Citations: 15	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Regis University

Abstract

ObjectiveTo understand students’ and tutors’ perceptions of the development of clinical competencies for the delivery of comprehensive medication management services in an experiential learning project linked to a Brazilian school of pharmacy.MethodsAn autoethnographic qualitative study was carried out based on participant observation, focus groups and individual interviews with students and tutors involved in an experiential learning project.ResultsThe study revealed the development of competencies related to the philosophy of practice, the pharmacotherapy workup of drug therapy and interprofessional relationships.ConclusionsThe experiential learning project contributed to the professional development of pharmacy students in pharmaceutical care practice, pointing to its potential benefits for incorporation into professional pharmacy curricula.

Highlights

Prompted by an emergent social need–drug-related morbidity and mortality [1,2]–the pharmacy profession is undergoing reform
The experiential learning project contributed to the professional development of pharmacy students in pharmaceutical care practice, pointing to its potential benefits for incorporation into professional pharmacy curricula
Pharmacists have been called to become competent in the provision of medication therapy management services, or more recently called comprehensive medication management (CMM) services [3,4,5,6,7,8]

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Introduction

Prompted by an emergent social need–drug-related morbidity and mortality [1,2]–the pharmacy profession is undergoing reform. After years of experience practicing pharmaceutical care, professionals from the same health system took part in an another educational study conducted by Losinski [17]. The objective of this study was to determine the contributions of this educational experience in the development of clinical competencies for the delivery of CMM services, based on the principles of pharmaceutical care practice, based on the perceptions of students and tutors involved.

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