Ascione Frank J
UM Center for Interprofessional Education, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2019 May 20;7(2):47. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7020047.
Pharmacy practice is changing to accommodate the need for pharmacists to be better team members in newly emerging collaborative care and integrated health systems. Pharmacy schools could lead this change by educating students to be effective participants in these relatively new models of care. Schools are encouraged to follow the approach outlined in the recent guidance published by the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) for interprofessional practice and education ("the new IPE"). This approach includes articulating an IPE plan, establishing goals, assessing student achievement of the necessary IPE competencies, developing educational plans that are multi-faceted and longitudinal, and modifying the existing assessment/evaluation process to ensure the quality of the IPE effort. These curricular decisions should be based on existing and new research on the effectiveness of IPE on student's attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behavior. A key decision is how to create effective interactions between pharmacy students and those of other professions. Educational emphasis should be directed toward team building skills, not just individual competencies. The pharmacy faculty probably need to enhance their teaching abilities to accommodate this change, such as learning new technology (e.g., simulations, managing online exchanges) and demonstrating a willingness to teach students from other professions.
药学实践正在发生变化,以满足药剂师在新兴的协作护理和综合医疗系统中成为更好的团队成员的需求。药学院可以通过教育学生成为这些相对新的护理模式中的有效参与者来引领这一变化。鼓励各学校遵循健康职业认证机构协作组织(HPAC)最近发布的关于跨专业实践和教育的指导意见(“新的跨专业教育”)中概述的方法。这种方法包括阐明跨专业教育计划、设定目标、评估学生对必要的跨专业教育能力的掌握情况、制定多方面且具有纵向性的教育计划,以及修改现有的评估/评价过程以确保跨专业教育工作的质量。这些课程决策应基于关于跨专业教育对学生态度、知识、技能和行为有效性的现有及新研究。一个关键决策是如何在药学专业学生与其他专业学生之间建立有效的互动。教育重点应放在团队建设技能上,而不仅仅是个人能力。药学院的教师可能需要提高他们的教学能力以适应这一变化,例如学习新技术(如模拟、管理在线交流)并表现出愿意教授其他专业学生的意愿。