Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Pharmacie clinique et Contrôle de Qualité des Médicaments, Pôle Technologie-Santé, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Faculty of Pharmacy, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Int J Pharm Pract. 2021 Dec 4;29(6):598-604. doi: 10.1093/ijpp/riab055.
The Order of Pharmacists of Lebanon, the official pharmacists' association in Lebanon, had suggested a core competencies framework based on global and international frameworks and adapted to the local context. The objective of this study was to validate the structure of this comprehensive set of competencies in the Lebanese context of pharmacy practice.
The framework structure was assessed through multiple factor analyses, correlational and reliability measures of self-declared assessment, based on a cross-sectional survey of practising pharmacists.
The framework had adequate structural validity and reliability: all measured coefficients were of appropriate magnitude. Behaviours adequately loaded on competencies, and competencies adequately loaded on domains and the entire framework. The exploratory factor analysis showed an adequate distribution of competencies in domains. Domains were also inter-correlated, without over-correlation.
Our results are an essential step towards standardizing pharmacy competencies in Lebanon and show that the Lebanese core competencies framework developed by the Order of Pharmacists of Lebanon is structurally valid and reliable, although not yet applied in the Lebanese educational system. This tool would be helpful to assess the minimum competencies of pharmacists upon and after graduation.
黎巴嫩药剂师协会（Lebanese Order of Pharmacists）是黎巴嫩官方药剂师协会，该协会提出了一个基于全球和国际框架并适应当地情况的核心能力框架。本研究的目的是验证该综合能力框架在黎巴嫩药学实践背景下的结构。
该框架结构通过多项因素分析、相关性和自我评估的可靠性措施进行评估，基于对执业药剂师的横断面调查。
该框架具有足够的结构有效性和可靠性：所有测量系数的大小都适当。行为充分加载到能力上，而能力充分加载到领域和整个框架上。探索性因素分析显示，各领域的能力分布合理。各领域之间也相互关联，没有过度关联。
我们的结果是黎巴嫩药学能力标准化的重要步骤，表明由黎巴嫩药剂师协会制定的黎巴嫩核心能力框架在结构上是有效和可靠的，尽管尚未在黎巴嫩教育系统中应用。该工具将有助于评估药剂师毕业后的最低能力。
