title: Improving pharmacy counselling skills: an interdisciplinary model of support for students with English as an additional language.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The pilot project, described in this paper, targeted English as an additional language (EAL) students to facilitate their development of patient counselling communication skills.
  
  
  METHODS
  An interdisciplinary content-based model was developed drawing on an interactional sociolinguistic framework to map language use valued in pharmacy counselling. Evaluation included analysis of successive self-assessments and surveys of students, surveys of teaching staff and final test results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Evaluation indicated that the interdisciplinary model was highly successful in improving EAL students' competency in pharmacy counselling.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The model may have possible wider application for education in health professional programmes.
authors: Learning and Teaching Unit, City East Campus, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
authors: Beverley
authors: B
authors: Kokkinn
authors: Ieva
authors: I
authors: Stupans
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003479:Curriculum; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D017145:Models, Educational; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013339:Students, Pharmacy