Rosenthal Meagen, Desselle Shane, Holmes Erin
The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, Faser Hall Room 223A, University, MS 38677, United States.
Tuuro University, College of Pharmacy Administration and Faculty 2, Rm. 218, 1310 Club Drive, Mara Island, Vallejo, CA 94592, United States.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2017 Sep;9(5):741-745. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2017.05.020. Epub 2017 Jun 30.
The profession of pharmacy is being afforded many important opportunities, and continues to face many challenges. To successfully address these issues schools and colleges of pharmacy must have a complete understanding of their current context, which includes culture. However, little of the work on culture in pharmacy education specifically defines what these cultures are, and equally importantly how this understanding of culture can be used to make changes, improve student learning, and ultimately develop pharmacists better prepared to improve patient outcomes.
Organizational culture has been defined in a multitude of ways in the literature. Martin's three-perspectives approach, which combines integrated, differentiated, and fragmented understandings, offers one way to approach defining culture and leveraging that definition of change. Furthermore, the organizational culture profile (OCP), is one tool that can be used to identify and differentiate between Martin's three perspectives.
Culture plays an important role in academic pharmacy, but before it can reach its highest potential in improving student outcomes, and faculty experience, it must be completely understood. Martin's approach and the OCP offer one way to achieve this objective.
药学专业面临着诸多重要机遇，同时也持续面临诸多挑战。为成功应对这些问题，药学院校必须全面了解其当前环境，其中包括文化。然而，药学教育中关于文化的研究很少具体界定这些文化是什么，同样重要的是，这种对文化的理解如何能够用于做出改变、改善学生学习，并最终培养出更有能力改善患者治疗效果的药剂师。
文献中对组织文化的定义多种多样。马丁的三视角方法，结合了整合、分化和碎片化的理解，为界定文化以及利用该定义推动变革提供了一种途径。此外，组织文化概况（OCP）是一种可用于识别和区分马丁三个视角的工具。
文化在药学学术领域中起着重要作用，但在其充分发挥改善学生学习效果和教师体验的最大潜力之前，必须被全面理解。马丁的方法和OCP为实现这一目标提供了一种途径。
