title: Swedish students' and preceptors' perceptions of what students learn in a six-month advanced pharmacy practice experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify what pharmacy students learn during the 6-month advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) in Sweden.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 pharmacy APPE students and 17 pharmacist preceptors and analyzed in a qualitative directed content analysis using a defined workplace learning typology for categories.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Swedish APPE provides students with task performance skills for work at pharmacies and social and professional knowledge, such as teamwork, how to learn while in a work setting, self-evaluation, understanding of the pharmacist role, and decision making and problem solving skills. Many of these skills and knowledge are not accounted for in the curricula in Sweden. Using a workplace learning typology to identify learning outcomes, as in this study, could be useful for curricula development.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Exploring the learning that takes place during the APPE in a pharmacy revealed a broad range of skills and knowledge that students acquire.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. andy.wallman@chem.umu.se
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wallman
authors.forename: Sofia Kälvemark
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sporrong
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gustavsson
authors.forename: Asa Kettis
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Lindblad
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Johansson
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ring
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001364:Awareness; D032882:Comprehension; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007858:Learning; D010465:Perception; D011231:Preceptorship; D011340:Problem Solving; D011361:Professional Competence; D012580:Schools, Pharmacy; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology*; D013548:Sweden; D017132:Workplace