Let External Stakeholders Be Your Guide to Curricular Revision

Area of Science:

• Pharmacy Education
• Curriculum Development
• Higher Education

Background:

• Pharmacy schools revise curricula due to practice changes, accreditation, and innovation goals.
• Existing quality improvement processes and curriculum models can guide revisions.
• External stakeholder expertise is valuable but often underutilized.

Purpose of the Study:

• To highlight the importance of external stakeholder engagement in pharmacy curriculum revision.
• To propose methods for effectively incorporating external expertise.
• To strengthen the curriculum revision process through collaboration.

Main Methods:

• Discusses the role of continuous quality improvement and curriculum models.
• Emphasizes proactive engagement of external stakeholders.
• Introduces logic modeling as a structured approach for stakeholder involvement.

Main Results:

• External stakeholder input can lead to unexpectedly positive and robust outcomes.
• Logic modeling helps structure engagement and maximize stakeholder utility.
• Early and guided engagement is crucial for successful revisions.

Conclusions:

• Integrating external stakeholders early and systematically enhances pharmacy curriculum revisions.
• Logic modeling provides a framework for leveraging external expertise effectively.
• Proactive collaboration with stakeholders is key to innovative and relevant pharmacy education.