Abstract
Pharmacists worldwide, including Saudi Arabia, are now increasingly expected to play a more patient-centred role. The transition of pharmacists from a dispensing role to a more patient-centred clinical role requires the adoption of innovative learning techniques in pharmacy teaching and learning to transform the future pharmacy workforce. One such innovation in pharmacy education is simulation-based pharmacy teaching. The use of simulation in pharmacy education allows pharmacy students to not only improve their clinical knowledge and skills, but also serves as a tool to improve their critical thinking that is a pre-requisite in sound clinical decision-making. Given the importance of patient-oriented teaching in pharmacy education, the majority of institutions offering pharmacy education in the developed countries have successfully integrated simulation-based teaching in their respective curricula to meet both patient and practice needs. However, most of the universities offering undergraduate pharmacy programs in the developing world, including Saudi Arabia, have limited application of patient-focused teaching in their respective programs. This article aims to highlight the importance of introducing simulation-based teaching in pharmacy education in Saudi Arabia.
Highlights
Pharmacists worldwide are increasingly expected to play a more patient-centred role
New models of pharmacist-led patient care have emerged in the United Kingdom (UK) that call for the delivery of a patient-centred, value-driven and outcome-based approach to medicines use [2]
The transition of pharmacists from a dispensing role to a more patient-centred clinical role requires the adoption of innovative learning techniques in pharmacy teaching and learning to transform the future pharmacy workforce
Summary
Pharmacists worldwide are increasingly expected to play a more patient-centred role. It called for utilizing pharmacy strengths towards the delivery of a safer, effective and more patient-centred care. The introduction of the new community pharmacist contract in 2005 was the first step that attempted to move pharmacists towards a more clinically oriented role. Since the introduction of the new community pharmacist contract in the UK, many patient-focused pharmacy services were introduced including the Medicines Use Reviews (MURS) and the New Medicines Service (NMS). New models of pharmacist-led patient care have emerged in the UK that call for the delivery of a patient-centred, value-driven and outcome-based approach to medicines use [2]. In the USA, pharmacists have the opportunity to be part of the multi-disciplinary teams that provide services to the recently introduced patient-centred medical homes (PCMHs) [4]
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