薬学部学生の病院実習に対する意識調査

Abstract

Pharmacy students from the medical Pharmaceutical Department are currently undergoing training at numerous hospitals to further enhance their education.Our hospital has received students on two occasions, during the spring semester and the summer semester, for two weeks. In order to improve the content of the training program. we have surveyed 112 students in their junior and senior years from 1991 to 1997. The following questions were most frequently asked:(with the most common answers)1) Why did you decide to apply to the practical training program at the hospitals?(1) I wanted to know what hospital pharmacists actualily do (52.7%)(2) I wantedto become a hospital pharmacist in the future (29.4%)2) What did you expect from this training?(1) To experience what hospital pharmacists did (33.0%)(2) To understand what is involved in becoming a hospital pharmacist (13.4%)3) Have you had any previous experience in practical training in the Pharmaceutical Department of a hospital?4) The practical training period is two weeks. Do you think that the period is:a) too long b) too short c) adequate5) What were you most in terested in regarding the Pharmaceutical Department?(List as many answers as possible)6) Regarding lectures:A) The length (time) of the lectures was: a) too long b) too short c) adequateB) The content of the iectures was:a) difficult to comprehend b) too easy c) reasonableC) What lectures or topics interested you the most?D) What can you suggest to make the lectures better for future trainees?(Please be as specific as possible)7) Regarding the practical training:A) The practical training period was: a) too long b) too short c) adequateB) The content of the training period was:a) difficult to comprehend b) too easy c) reasonableC) What were you interested you most about the training period?D) What can you suggest to make the training course better for future trainees?(Please be as speaks as possible)8) After graduationA) Do you wish to become a hospital pharmacist?a) yes b) no c) have not thought about it d) otherThe results of the survey showed that about 70% of the students wished to become hospital pharmacists after graduation. The areas of interest in the Pharmaceutical Department of the hospital tended to center around giving instructions on taking medicine, product information, the preparation of medicine and making/mixing medicines, in that order.The students all had high expectations the hospital practical training course. We must accept these challenges and improve our curriculum, guidance and facilities to better meet the students needs.