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Agency for Sustainability in Pharmacy Education: Perspectives From Senior Bachelor Students in Qatar
Asma Mecheter1, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim2, Faiz Elfaki3
1Qatar University, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Doha, Qatar.
Objective:
Sustainability is increasingly being discussed in pharmacy education. This study explores how senior bachelor's degree pharmacy students conceptualize sustainability within pharmacy practice, how they perceive their agency to enact sustainability in their roles, and what contextual factors exist to enable or constrain their agency for sustainability.
Methods:
A qualitative research design was employed. Purposive sampling was used to recruit senior bachelor's pharmacy students enrolled in their final year of study (n = 10). Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis, drawing on Bandura's theory of human agency as an interpretive lens.
Results:
Participants conceptualized sustainability as a multidimensional professional responsibility that encompasses environmental stewardship, patient care, and medicines optimization. Students expressed value-driven intentionality by emphasizing responsible prescribing, waste reduction, and patient education. However, agency for sustainability was perceived as being constrained by factors such as curricular invisibility, limited experiential exposure, and pressure from the health care system. Sustainability emerged as part of students' professional identity but lacked consistent institutional reinforcement.
Conclusion:
Senior bachelor pharmacy students view sustainability as aligned with professional responsibility, yet structural and educational gaps may limit the enactment of sustainability. Embedding sustainability longitudinally within pharmacy curricula and practical training opportunities may strengthen agency and identity integration, which prepares graduates for environmentally responsible practices within complex health care systems.
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