The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney NSW |2006, Australia.
The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney NSW |2006, Australia.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2023 Aug;15(8):722-729. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2023.07.003. Epub 2023 Jul 26.
Experiential education helps to integrate knowledge into practice, develops professionalism and understanding of a pharmacist's role in practice, and is a major component of pharmacy education. The role of the preceptor in experiential education is to model professional behaviours and provide feedback on student preceptee performance and competence. Little is known about how preceptors feel about their competency being assessed or the most appropriate way to assess competency.
A qualitative study using focus groups was designed, and a purposive convenience sampling strategy was used to target pharmacy students, current pharmacy interns, and registered pharmacists. A semi-structured interview guide was used to probe participants' views of what makes for a good preceptorship experience, opinions about assessment of preceptor competency, and barriers to training and assessment of preceptors.
Thirteen focus groups and three interviews were conducted with 56 participants from rural, regional, and urban areas in New South Wales, Australia. Six main themes were generated: the purpose of preceptorship, becoming a preceptor, developing shared expectations, experiences, competing demands, and assessment of preceptor competence.
Preceptorship plays a vital role in the career development of pharmacy students and graduates. Preceptees expect the experience they attain will be the same as their peers regardless of site. Assessing preceptor competency has been identified as a way of standardising performance. This study highlights the need to better support preceptors with the aim of better standardising the preceptorship experience.
体验式教育有助于将知识融入实践，培养专业精神和对药剂师在实践中角色的理解，是药学教育的重要组成部分。导师在体验式教育中的作用是模范专业行为，并对学生的实习表现和能力提供反馈。关于导师对自己能力评估的感受，以及评估能力的最合适方法，人们知之甚少。
本研究采用焦点小组的定性研究设计，并采用目的便利抽样策略，以新南威尔士州农村、地区和城市的药学学生、当前的药学实习生和注册药剂师为目标。采用半结构化访谈指南来探究参与者对良好指导经验的看法、对导师能力评估的意见，以及培训和评估导师的障碍。
在澳大利亚新南威尔士州的农村、地区和城市地区，与 56 名参与者进行了 13 个焦点小组和 3 次访谈。产生了 6 个主要主题：指导的目的、成为导师、发展共同期望、经验、竞争需求和导师能力评估。
指导在药学学生和毕业生的职业发展中起着至关重要的作用。实习者期望他们获得的经验与同龄人相同，而不论实习地点如何。评估导师能力已被确定为标准化绩效的一种方式。本研究强调需要更好地支持导师，旨在更好地标准化指导经验。
