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Journal clubs during advanced pharmacy practice experiences to teach literature-evaluation skills
Sally A Arif1, Suzanna Gim, Anna Nogid
1Chicago College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. sarif@midwestern.edu
Objective:
To determine pharmacy students' attitudes and academic performance related to journal club during 2 advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs).
Design:
Fourth-year pharmacy students were required to complete 3 journal club assignments during drug information and internal medicine APPEs.
Assessment:
A majority (91.3%) of the 105 students who responded to a 21-item survey instrument indicated that journal club assignments during the drug-information APPE were valuable to their understanding of research design and statistics. Students who completed the drug-information APPE before the internal medicine APPE scored higher on their understanding of the strengths and weaknesses and the clinical relevance of studies and had a higher learning slope (p = 0.01) than did students who completed the internal medicine APPE first.
Conclusion:
Incorporating journal clubs into APPEs is an effective means of teaching literature-evaluation skills to pharmacy students.
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