Center for Environmental Health Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, United States.
The Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, United States.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2021 May;13(5):560-565. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2021.01.008. Epub 2021 Jan 23.
We describe a novel, interprofessional, experiential training involving pharmacy students in response to a health emergency in rural Montana (MT).
Fourth-year pharmacy students on clinical rotations were recruited to participate in screening events assessing effects of wildfire smoke in Seeley Lake, MT. Students were required to fulfill at least two hours of supplementary training in addition to education on human research guidelines. Students assisted with patient surveys (demographics, health, and respiratory), physiological testing with biomedical researchers, blood pressure and medication counseling, and spirometry specialists.
At least 20 pharmacy students have participated in this project in addition to nursing (n = 8), public health (n = 1), and social work (n = 1) students. In initial and subsequent screenings, students worked alongside a team of biomedical researchers and faculty from the University of Montana. An initial cohort of 95 patients was recruited.
This unique experiential training opportunity has afforded pharmacy students access to rural community patient interaction and exposure to and performance of a variety of tests in response to an environmental health emergency. Furthermore, it enabled health professionals and researchers to assess individual and overall community health following an extreme wildfire smoke event, providing the groundwork for utilization of pharmacy students in healthcare responses to public health emergencies.
我们描述了一项新颖的、跨专业的体验式培训，该培训涉及药学专业的学生，以应对蒙大拿州（MT）农村地区的突发卫生事件。
正在临床轮转的四年级药学专业学生被招募参与在蒙大拿州 Seeley Lake 进行的评估野火烟雾影响的筛查活动。学生需要在完成至少两小时的补充培训的基础上，接受人类研究指南方面的教育。学生协助患者进行调查（人口统计学、健康和呼吸状况）、与生物医学研究人员进行生理测试、血压和药物咨询以及肺活量计专家。
除了护理专业（n=8）、公共卫生专业（n=1）和社会工作专业（n=1）的学生外，至少有 20 名药学专业学生参与了该项目。在初步和后续的筛查中，学生与蒙大拿大学的一组生物医学研究人员和教师一起工作。最初招募了 95 名患者。
这种独特的体验式培训机会使药学专业的学生有机会与农村社区的患者互动，并接触和执行各种测试，以应对突发的环境卫生紧急情况。此外，它使卫生专业人员和研究人员能够评估个人和整个社区在极端野火烟雾事件后的健康状况，为在公共卫生紧急情况下利用药学专业学生参与医疗保健响应奠定了基础。
