Mourad Noha A, Gálvez-Peralta Marina, Brown Christopher B, Hanif Ahmad, Ham Amy-Joan L
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Natural and Health Sciences, Manchester University, Fort Wayne, IN, USA.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2025 Jan;89(1):101340. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.101340. Epub 2024 Dec 7.
The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Pharmacotherapy Didactic Curriculum Toolkit has been used across many schools of pharmacy to guide the depth and breadth of therapeutics coverage, but no counterpart for foundational science coverage in pharmacy education currently exists. Broad topic areas for the foundational sciences are outlined in Appendix 1 of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) standards, but the standards lack specific direction with regard to foundational sciences content needed in the professional pharmacy curriculum. Faculty are therefore challenged to determine the depth and breadth of foundational sciences to meet educational standards within limited curricular space, often resulting in curricular hoarding and overload. Another challenge is how faculty should best integrate the foundational sciences with clinical practice in accordance with ACPE expectations. This narrative review serves as an urgent call to develop a Comprehensive Foundational Sciences Toolkit and provides an example of a toolkit mapped to pharmacy educational standards and competencies. The authors discuss the potential of this foundational sciences toolkit to 1) guide faculty on the appropriate coverage of foundational sciences within the professional pharmacy curriculum to limit curricular overload; and 2) enhance communication and coordination between faculty to facilitate the process of streamlining, connecting, and aligning content across the foundational and clinical sciences.
美国临床药学学院（ACCP）的药物治疗教学课程工具包已在许多药学院中使用，以指导治疗学覆盖的深度和广度，但目前在药学教育中尚无基础科学覆盖方面的对应工具包。药学教育认证委员会（ACPE）标准附录1中概述了基础科学的广泛主题领域，但这些标准在专业药学课程所需的基础科学内容方面缺乏具体指导。因此，教师面临着在有限的课程空间内确定基础科学的深度和广度以满足教育标准的挑战，这常常导致课程内容的囤积和过载。另一个挑战是教师应如何根据ACPE的期望，最好地将基础科学与临床实践相结合。这篇叙述性综述迫切呼吁开发一个综合基础科学工具包，并提供了一个与药学教育标准和能力相匹配的工具包示例。作者讨论了这个基础科学工具包的潜力，即1）指导教师在专业药学课程中对基础科学进行适当的覆盖，以限制课程过载；2）加强教师之间的沟通与协调，以促进基础科学和临床科学内容的精简、连接和对齐过程。
