title: Pharmaceutical education in patient counseling: 20h spread over 6 years?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To share our experiences with an educational program to increase pharmacy students' patient counseling competency.
  
  
  METHODS
  A description is given of the various steps taken to develop an educational program about patient counseling:
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Health Belief Model has been chosen as the theoretical model to make students understand patients' drug use behavior. A stepwise development of students' communication skills is combined with assessments in which relatively high norms are applied. Actors act as patients in standardized role plays. In total the basic education consists of 20h of training.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With a rather small educational investment, 50% of our students achieve the required level of patient counseling. The remaining students succeed to pass the assessments, after having received additional education.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacy students differ in their needs for educational support in developing their patient counseling competency. These differences are to be taken into account in educational programs addressed to student's patient counseling competency.
authors.affiliation: Utrecht University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.t.g.blom@uu.nl
authors.forename: Lyda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blom
authors.forename: Majanne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolters
authors.forename: Marjon
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ten Hoor-Suykerbuyk
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Paassen
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Oyen
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003376:Counseling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003479:Curriculum; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology*