title: In Practical Training, a Questionnaire Survey and Analysis to Pharmacy Students of the Utilization Situation of the Course Contents of Pharmacy School.
abstract: Pharmacy education comprises basic pharmacy (organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physical chemistry) and applied pharmacy (clinical pharmacy, pharm aceutics, and chemical hygiene). Students are expected to apply these subjects studied in pharmacy school during their practical pharmacy training. However, knowledge gained in university does not appear to be fully utilized in practice. We hypothesized that this is due to a lack of connection between pre-practical training education and actual practical training. Thus, we conducted a questionnaire study among pharmacy students to verify this hypothesis. We sent a questionnaire to 601 students in their sixth year of the pharmacy course at Chiba University, Teikyo University, or Kobe Pharmaceutical University who had undergone long-term practical training. The questionnaire asked about the utility of each subject of study and the reason for the judgement regarding the utility. Four hundred and forty-two students replied (response rate, 73.5%). A small proportion of students found the basic pharmacy subjects useful: physical chemistry, 5%; organic chemistry, 10%; and biochemistry, 24%. In contrast, more than half of the students found the clinical pharmacy subjects useful: pharmacology, 85%; pharmaceutics, 55%; pathophysiology, 75%; pharmacotherapeutics, 84%; and pharmaceutical regulations, 58%. Analysis of the comments left in the free-description section on the questionnaire revealed that most students did not have any opportunity to use their knowledge of the basic subjects during practical training, and furthermore, did not learn the processes involving the use of such subjects to solve clinical problems. Universities and pharmacists need to collaborate so that students can learn such processes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy, Chiba University Hospital.|Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University.
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okubo
authors.affiliation: Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University.
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy, Chiba University Hospital.|Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharma Sciences, Teikyo University.
authors.forename: Hideyo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.affiliation: Kobe Pharmaceutical University.
authors.forename: Okiko
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Miyata
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy, Chiba University Hospital.
authors.forename: Takaaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy, Chiba University Hospital.|Graduate School and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University.
authors.forename: Itsuko
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ishii
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D012580:Schools, Pharmacy; D013339:Students, Pharmacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: basic pharmaceutical science; pharmacy student; practical training; text mining