Department of Pharmacy, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
School of Pharmaceutical Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Sep 23;10:906504. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.906504. eCollection 2022.
Formerly, the community pharmacists' work was mainly focused on drug supply. However, during the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, community pharmacists in Wuhan played an important role in control and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 and in providing pharmaceutical care. Due to a lack of adequate knowledge and skills, many community pharmacists were not able to cope with healthcare work timely and efficiently. To improve community pharmacists' specialized knowledge and enhance their professional competence through systemic training in the post-COVID-19 era.
Based on the O-AMAS (Objective, Activation, Multi-learning, Assessment and Summary) teaching model and flipped classroom, an online continuing training program containing four sections was developed. It was a semi-experimental study with no control group. Quantitative tests before and after training as well as questionnaire were used to evaluate the outcome of this training program for community pharmacists.
A total of twenty-six community pharmacists were invited to participate in continuing education, and twenty-five trainees finished this training program with a completion rate of 96.2 %. Quantitative tests before and after training and anonymous questionnaires were carried out to comprehensively evaluate the outcomes of this training program. Compared with the test scores before training (61.6 ± 6.6), the score after training was statistically higher, reaching 80.9 ± 7.5 ( < 0.001). Twenty-three questionnaires were received (returns ratio, 92.0%). Notably, most of the pharmacists were satisfied with the training program. The percentage of positive responses for each item in this anonymous questionnaire was more than 85 %.
It was suggested that the O-AMAS model and the flipped classroom-based continuing educational program achieved the expected training effects. It is a promising on-the-job training approach for pharmacy continuing education. Moreover, our study also demonstrated that online learning had advantages of no geographic constraints, flexible learning beyond time and easy interaction, over traditional face-to-face training style, especially in the post-pandemic era.
过去，社区药剂师的工作主要集中在药品供应上。然而，在 COVID-19 疫情爆发期间，武汉的社区药剂师在控制和预防 SARS-CoV-2 以及提供药学服务方面发挥了重要作用。由于缺乏足够的知识和技能，许多社区药剂师无法及时有效地应对医疗保健工作。为了提高社区药剂师的专业知识，增强他们在 COVID-19 后的专业能力，需要通过系统培训。
基于 O-AMAS（目标、激活、多学习、评估和总结）教学模式和翻转课堂，开发了一个包含四个部分的在线继续教育课程。这是一项无对照组的半实验研究。培训前后的定量测试和问卷调查用于评估该培训计划对社区药剂师的效果。
共邀请 26 名社区药剂师参加继续教育，25 名学员完成了该培训计划，完成率为 96.2%。培训前后的定量测试和匿名问卷用于全面评估该培训计划的结果。与培训前的测试分数（61.6±6.6）相比，培训后的分数明显更高，达到 80.9±7.5（<0.001）。共收到 23 份问卷（回复率为 92.0%）。值得注意的是，大多数药剂师对培训计划表示满意。匿名问卷中每个项目的肯定回答率均超过 85%。
O-AMAS 模型和基于翻转课堂的继续教育课程达到了预期的培训效果。这是一种有前途的药学继续教育在职培训方法。此外，我们的研究还表明，在线学习具有不受地理位置限制、灵活的学习时间和易于互动等优势，超过了传统的面对面培训方式，尤其是在后疫情时代。
