Yoo Sujin, Song Seungyeon, Lee Sangmi, Kwon Kwangil, Kim Eunyoung
College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, South Korea ; Department of Pharmacy, Eulji University Hospital. Daejeon 302-799, South Korea.
College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, South Korea.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2014 Oct 15;78(8):149. doi: 10.5688/ajpe788149.
To address the academic gap (or lack of adequate training and programs) between 4- and 6-year pharmacy programs and suggest methods for reducing this gap and to evaluate pharmacists' perceptions of preceptorship.
We surveyed a convenience sample of 200 community pharmacists who graduated from a 4-year program who were participating in a continuing education program for clinical pharmacy as organized by the Daejeon branch of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association in 2011. Twenty-one questions were asked about the academic gap, needs for an education program, preceptorship, and medication therapy management services. International precedents were examined through a literature review to glean ideas of how to bridge the academic gap between the 4- and 6-year programs.
In total, 132 pharmacists answered the survey (return rate=66.0%). The survey findings included problems caused by the academic gap, high need for an adequate education program, low acceptability of preceptorship, and the possibility of medication therapy management services. US-based, non-traditional PharmD programs and new curriculum-support training in Japan provided examples of how the academic gap has been successfully bridged.
Nationwide efforts and government support are urgently required to close the academic gap, and experiential education should be included in transitional programs for 4-year pharmacy program pharmacists.
解决4年制和6年制药学专业课程之间的学术差距（或缺乏足够的培训和课程）问题，并提出缩小这一差距的方法，同时评估药剂师对带教制的看法。
我们对200名毕业于4年制课程的社区药剂师进行了便利抽样调查，这些药剂师参加了韩国制药协会大田分会于2011年组织的临床药学继续教育项目。就学术差距、教育项目需求、带教制以及药物治疗管理服务提出了21个问题。通过文献综述研究国际先例，以获取有关如何缩小4年制和6年制课程之间学术差距的思路。
共有132名药剂师回答了调查问卷（回复率=66.0%）。调查结果包括学术差距导致的问题、对适当教育项目的高度需求、带教制的低接受度以及药物治疗管理服务的可能性。美国的非传统药学博士项目和日本的新课程支持培训提供了成功缩小学术差距的范例。
迫切需要全国性的努力和政府支持来缩小学术差距，并且应将体验式教育纳入4年制药学专业药剂师的过渡项目中。
