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Online statistics education effectively teaches pharmacy students essential principles and literature interpretation skills. This distance learning approach demonstrates the potential of innovative technologies for remote instruction.

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  • Online Learning
  • Statistics

Background:

  • Traditional classroom statistics courses present challenges for distance learning.
  • Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students require statistical knowledge for literature comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the effectiveness of an online, distance education statistics course for PharmD students.
  • To evaluate learning outcomes in an online statistics curriculum.

Main Methods:

  • Lectures were digitized and streamed via a course management system.
  • Student engagement included workbooks, simulations, and VoIP examination reviews.
  • A quasi-experimental design with precourse and final examinations was employed.

Main Results:

  • No significant difference in precourse statistics knowledge was found between first-year (P1) and second-year (P2) students.
  • Students with prior statistics coursework scored higher on precourse assessments.
  • All P2 student groups achieved similar final examination scores, indicating comparable learning outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • Online, distance education can successfully impart foundational statistics principles to pharmacy students.
  • Students can learn to apply statistical knowledge for interpreting pharmacy and medical literature online.
  • This study highlights the viability of remote learning for subjects traditionally taught in person.