Fielding David W, Regehr Glenn
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Centre for Health Education Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2017 May;81(4):77. doi: 10.5688/ajpe81477.
An integrated curriculum that does not incorporate equally integrated assessment strategies is likely to prove ineffective in achieving the desired educational outcomes. We suggest it is time for colleges and schools of pharmacy to re-engineer their approach to assessment. To build the case, we first discuss the challenges leading to the need for curricular developments in pharmacy education. We then turn to the literature that informs how assessment can influence learning, introduce an approach to learning assessment that is being used by several medical education programs, and provide some examples of this approach in operation. Finally, we identify some of the challenges faced in adopting such an integrated approach to assessment and suggest that this is an area ripe with research opportunities for pharmacy educators.
一个没有同样纳入综合评估策略的综合课程,在实现预期教育成果方面可能会被证明是无效的。我们认为,药学院校是时候重新设计他们的评估方法了。为了说明这一点,我们首先讨论导致药学教育课程发展需求的挑战。然后我们转向那些能说明评估如何影响学习的文献,介绍一种被几个医学教育项目所采用的学习评估方法,并提供一些这种方法实际应用的例子。最后,我们指出在采用这种综合评估方法时面临的一些挑战,并表明这是一个对药学教育工作者来说充满研究机会的领域。