The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2022 Aug;86(6):8708. doi: 10.5688/ajpe8708. Epub 2021 Oct 25.
The goal of this project was to establish content validity and describe internal consistency of a patient counseling competency assessment instrument used to evaluate student pharmacists practicing in an oncology setting. The study involved a modified e-Delphi panel of oncology clinical pharmacy specialists, clinical pharmacy generalists, and oncology pharmacy residents. Iterative rounds of the e-Delphi process were conducted until consensus was reached on most instrument items. Consensus was defined as agreement by at least 75% of participants that an item was or was not important. The modified e-Delphi process included three rounds of responses from 13 panelists and resulted in a 35-item instrument with consensus reached on 33/35 (94%) of the items. All participants indicated that the assessment result options allowed them to indicate the student's level of competency either extremely well or very well. A modified e-Delphi method was used to validate a reliable instrument for the assessment of student pharmacist counseling abilities in an oncology setting. Similar methodology should be considered during the development of student assessment tools, especially for high-impact student pharmacist activities such as chemotherapeutic medication counseling.
本项目的目标是建立一个用于评估在肿瘤环境中实践的学生药剂师的患者咨询能力的评估工具的内容效度并描述其内部一致性。该研究涉及一个肿瘤临床药学专家、临床药学专家和肿瘤药房住院医师的改良电子德尔菲小组。通过电子德尔菲过程的迭代回合，直到大多数工具项目达成共识。共识的定义是至少 75%的参与者同意一个项目是重要的还是不重要的。改良的电子德尔菲过程包括来自 13 名小组成员的三轮回复，最终形成了一个包含 35 个项目的工具，其中 33/35（94%）的项目达成了共识。所有参与者都表示，评估结果选项使他们能够非常好地或极好地表示学生的能力水平。改良的电子德尔菲方法用于验证在肿瘤环境中评估学生药剂师咨询能力的可靠工具。在开发学生评估工具时，应考虑类似的方法，特别是对于化疗药物咨询等对学生药剂师影响较大的活动。
