Abstract
The profile of the profession of pharmacists has profoundly changed over the last decades. Pharmacy education has moved towards competency-based education. The pharmacy game, called GIMMICS®, developed at the University of Groningen, is unique in combining simulation with serious gaming to teach a wide range of competencies. In this article, we describe the learning goals, the assessment methods, the teaching tools, and the students’ view of the pharmacy game. The learning goals are to train the competencies of collaboration, leadership, communication, and pharmaceutical expertise. The core of the game is the simulation of community pharmacy practice activities, such as patient counseling, processing of prescriptions, and collaboration with other health professionals. Students are assessed individually and as a pharmacy team. The pharmacy team, with the largest number of patients wins the game. Student evaluations show that they value the course. Currently, seven universities from around the globe have adopted the pharmacy game in their curriculum, adjusting the course to their country’s pharmacy practice and educational system.
Highlights
The profession of pharmacy has profoundly changed over the last decades
Those developments have led to changes in the pharmacy curricula, learning goals, and teaching methods in many universities around the world [2,3,4]
Pharmacy education has moved towards competency-based education [5,6,7,8], and several different frameworks have been developed to describe the competencies of pharmacists [7,9]
Summary
The role of pharmacists in community and hospital practice has expanded from product dispensing to patient care and medicine management [1]. Those developments have led to changes in the pharmacy curricula, learning goals, and teaching methods in many universities around the world [2,3,4]. Many teaching methods are used in pharmacy education, but simulation-based training and the use of a serious game have gained particular attention [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20].
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