The Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy, Columbus, Ohio.
The Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy, Columbus, Ohio
Am J Pharm Educ. 2022 Jun;86(5):8668. doi: 10.5688/ajpe8668. Epub 2021 Oct 25.
To assess the current practices of US schools and colleges of pharmacy pertaining to teaching legislative advocacy; the engagement of staff, faculty, postgraduates, students, and administrators in legislative advocacy partnerships and activities; and their future goals for legislative advocacy involvement by academic pharmacy institutions. An electronic survey was distributed to deans of schools and colleges of pharmacy across the United States. Respondents were asked to complete 53 items about their school's involvement in, barriers to involvement in, and relative importance of involvement in legislative advocacy. Responses were evaluated using descriptive statistics. The survey accrued responses from 48 of 143 (33%) schools and colleges of pharmacy. Sixteen percent of responding schools required a course on advocacy and approximately 50% offered an advocacy elective. A majority (58.8%) of responding institutions ranked their institution's involvement in legislative advocacy high (≥7 on a scale of 1-10), and 75.8% ranked the importance of legislative advocacy in external collaboration high. A majority of institutions (60%) ranked the importance of faculty, staff, and postgraduate roles in advocacy high; however, 42.3% did not rank involvement as strongly. Fifty percent of institutions plan to expand involvement in legislative advocacy. Respondents highly ranked the importance of legislative advocacy. Many perceived their institution's involvement as strong and having plans to expand. Moving forward, curricula and resource allocation should be reviewed to diminish the dissonance between an institution's perception of the importance of legislative advocacy and actual implementation of legislative advocacy components.
评估美国药学院校在教学立法倡导方面的现行做法；员工、教师、研究生、学生和管理人员参与立法倡导伙伴关系和活动的情况；以及学术药学机构未来参与立法倡导的目标。向美国各地的药学院院长分发了一份电子调查。要求受访者完成 53 项关于其学校参与、参与障碍以及参与立法倡导的相对重要性的问题。使用描述性统计数据评估答复。该调查收到了来自 143 所药学院校中的 48 所（33%）的回应。16%的回应学校要求开设一门关于宣传的课程，约有 50%的学校提供宣传选修课程。大多数（58.8%）回应机构将其机构在立法宣传中的参与程度评为高（1-10 分制的 7 分及以上），75.8%将立法宣传在外部合作中的重要性评为高。大多数机构（60%）将教师、员工和研究生在宣传中的作用的重要性评为高；然而，42.3%的机构并没有给予很高的评价。50%的机构计划扩大参与立法宣传。受访者高度评价立法宣传的重要性。许多人认为他们机构的参与度很强，并计划扩大参与度。展望未来，应审查课程和资源分配，以缩小机构对立法宣传重要性的看法与实际实施立法宣传内容之间的差距。
