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A clinical nutrition course to improve pharmacy students' skills and confidence in counseling patients
Linda Chang1, Nicholas G Popovich, Cherdsak Iramaneerat
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine at Rockford, Rockford, IL 61107, USA. lchang@uic.edu
Objective:
To create, implement, and evaluate a PharmD course on primary care nutrition.
Design:
A 2-credit hour elective course was offered to second- and third-year pharmacy students. It was informed by the Socratic method using a minimum number of formal lecture presentations and featured problem-based learning exercises, case-based scenarios, and scientific literature to fuel informed debate. A single group posttest design with a retrospective pretest was used to assess students' self-efficacy.
Assessment:
There was a significant overall improvement in students' self-efficacy in their ability to practice primary care nutrition.
Conclusion:
Completion of a nutrition course improved students' confidence in providing primary care nutrition and empowered them to speak more comfortably about the role of nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases.
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