Pharmacy Students' Attitudes Toward Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lectures via Interactive Videoconferencing

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this manuscript is to: (1) compare students' attitudes toward interactive videoconferencing in two courses (therapeutics and clinical pharmacokinetics) and (2) determine whether duration of time or the type of course significantly affected students' attitudes toward interactive videoconferencing lectures. In fall 1995, a 6-item pretested survey was administered to 40 (100% of the class) third-year professional Pharm.D. students in the Advanced Therapeutics course and the Clinical Pharmacokinetics course at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. The survey was given to the students two weeks after each course began (one-fifth of the way through the course) and six weeks later to reassess students' attitudes toward interactive videoconferencing lectures in these two courses. The students were asked to respond to each of the six items by using a five-point Likert response scale. Descriptive analysis for items on the survey was performed. Two-way analysis of variance using the g...