Ulrich Erin, Hurdelbrink Jonathan, Perepelkin Jason, Welter Kelli
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 50311, USA.
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Sakatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9, Canada.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2019 Aug 6;7(3):109. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7030109.
It has been estimated that in 2018, 20% of pharmacy students were unemployed following graduation. However, many pharmacy positions go vacant each year, with the majority of these positions existing in rural areas. Pharmacy students completed a one-time, anonymous, online questionnaire. Measures of interest included: subject characteristics and preference in a variety job offers. Discrete Choice Experiment methodology of questionnaire design was used and Conditional Logit models were conducted to analyze the data to determine the financial incentive required for pharmacy students to take a post-graduate job with particular traits. A total of 283 students completed questionnaires from Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The majority of subjects were female, P3 students, and from a non-rural hometown. American students would need to be paid an additional $18,738 in salary to practice in a rural area, while Canadian students would require an additional $17,156. Canadian respondents would require an additional $7125 in salary to work in a community pharmacy with a low level of patient interaction compared to a community position with a large amount of patient interaction. Overall, pharmacy student preferences in post-graduation job attributes vary significantly between states and provinces.
据估计，2018年，20%的药学专业学生毕业后处于失业状态。然而，每年都有许多药学岗位空缺，其中大部分岗位在农村地区。药学专业学生完成了一份一次性的、匿名的在线调查问卷。感兴趣的指标包括：受试者特征以及对各种工作机会的偏好。问卷设计采用离散选择实验方法，并使用条件Logit模型对数据进行分析，以确定药学专业学生接受具有特定特征的研究生工作所需的经济激励。共有283名学生完成了来自爱荷华州、北达科他州、南达科他州、萨斯喀彻温省和曼尼托巴省的调查问卷。大多数受试者为女性、三年级学生，且来自非农村家乡。美国学生若要在农村地区执业，薪资需额外增加18738美元，而加拿大学生则需要额外增加17156美元。与大量患者互动的社区岗位相比，加拿大受访者若要在患者互动较少的社区药房工作，薪资需额外增加7125美元。总体而言，不同州和省份的药学专业学生对毕业后工作属性的偏好差异显著。
