Wilbur Kerry
College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2013 May 6;4:95-9. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S43832. Print 2013.
An orientation to the professional landscape is necessary for novices of any health discipline. We describe an assignment aimed to develop the professional literacy of pharmacy students within their local Middle Eastern context.
"Pharmacy and Health Care" is a course designed to introduce first-year students to both historic and contemporary pharmacist roles and responsibilities and to the position of pharmacy within a health care system. An assignment asked students to identify a health-related article recently reported by one of the domestic newspapers in order to exhibit the students' ability to conceptualize how pharmacists fit into the described health context.
The exercise was assigned over three consecutive academic years. A majority of the students (36/60; 60%) chose articles reported in one of the three English-language dailies; stories were primarily characterized as Qatar health-related current events or news items (44/60; 73%). The pharmacy students felt the assignment encouraged reading and an appreciation of current pharmacist roles and future opportunities in Qatar health care.
A newspaper assignment designed to develop professional literacy would be of benefit in early training years in health care professional degree programs elsewhere in the world; the result would orient students to expected positions in local health care settings and would help envision role expansion.
对于任何健康学科的新手来说，了解专业领域的情况都是必要的。我们描述了一项旨在培养中东地区药学专业学生专业素养的作业。
“药学与医疗保健”课程旨在向一年级学生介绍药学历史和当代药剂师的角色与职责，以及药学在医疗保健系统中的地位。一项作业要求学生找出国内报纸最近报道的一篇与健康相关的文章，以展示学生将药剂师融入所描述的健康背景中的概念化能力。
该作业连续三个学年布置。大多数学生（36/60；60%）选择了三份英文日报之一报道的文章；报道的内容主要是卡塔尔与健康相关的时事或新闻（44/60；73%）。药学专业学生认为该作业鼓励阅读，并有助于了解卡塔尔医疗保健领域当前药剂师的角色和未来机会。
一项旨在培养专业素养的报纸作业，对世界其他地方医疗保健专业学位项目的早期培训阶段会有帮助；其结果将使学生了解当地医疗保健环境中的预期职位，并有助于设想角色的扩展。
