Yumrukaya Leyla, Sözen Şahne Bilge, Yeğenoğlu Selen
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Management, Ankara, Türkiye.
Turk J Pharm Sci. 2022 Dec 21;19(6):666-670. doi: 10.4274/tjps.galenos.2021.55060.
Websites have become the main information source, being a crucial element of our daily life and a global network. In this context, the importance of the websites of pharmacy schools is considered not only for their educational mission, but also for their gates to the world. In this study, we evaluated the websites of pharmacy schools based on criteria issued in the literature.
Websites of all pharmacy schools in Türkiye were evaluated by scoring the availability of predetermined items, where -tests and paired -test were used to compare the groups.
As a result, we found that there is no statistical difference between private and public and accredited or non-accredited schools (>0.05). Also, we observed no statistical difference between the scores in 2012 and 2021 (>0.05).
Most pharmacy schools in this study were public, and the accreditation status still seems challenging. Of these 39 schools, only 14 schools are accredited. Total scores of public schools were found to be higher than the private ones and notably, accredited schools have higher scores. Yet, there is no statistically difference between accredited and non-accredited schools or public and private schools. Importance of websites as a communication tool for higher education institutions (HEIs) is indisputable. In conclusion, pharmacy schools should keep up to date with their official websites, considering the virtual world we fell into with the web technologies' developments. Also, further studies should be conducted on the websites of pharmacy schools regarding user demands. Besides we suggest that pharmacy schools' website' quality should be improved and keeping them up to date should be ensured.
网站已成为主要信息来源，是我们日常生活和全球网络的关键要素。在此背景下，药学院网站的重要性不仅体现在其教育使命上，还体现在其作为通向世界的窗口。在本研究中，我们根据文献中提出的标准对药学院网站进行了评估。
通过对预定项目的可用性进行评分，对土耳其所有药学院的网站进行评估，采用t检验和配对t检验对各组进行比较。
结果发现，私立和公立以及认证或未认证学校之间没有统计学差异（P>0.05）。此外，我们观察到2012年和2021年的分数之间没有统计学差异（P>0.05）。
本研究中的大多数药学院是公立的，认证状况似乎仍然具有挑战性。在这39所学校中，只有14所学校获得认证。发现公立学校的总分高于私立学校，值得注意的是，认证学校的分数更高。然而，认证和未认证学校或公立和私立学校之间没有统计学差异。网站作为高等教育机构（HEIs）的沟通工具的重要性是无可争议的。总之，考虑到随着网络技术发展我们所处的虚拟世界，药学院应及时更新其官方网站。此外，应就药学院网站的用户需求进行进一步研究。此外，我们建议提高药学院网站的质量并确保其及时更新。
