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ReviewPharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2023

A SWOT Analysis of Pharmacy Students' Perspectives on e-Learning Based on a Narrative Review.

Carla Pires

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Review in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Carla PiresCBIOS-Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies, University Lusófona, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4526-0271

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOnline education became the new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the number of studies exploring the potential advantages/disadvantages of e-learning in pharmacy courses is limited. STUDY

aimto propose a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of e-learning according to pharmacy students' perspectives.

methodsA narrative review was conducted to examine student pharmacist perspectives on e-learning.

resultsDiverse strengths and weaknesses (internal environment) and opportunities and threats (external environment) were identified, which were grouped into categories, such as (1) students' well-being (e.g., access to classes anywhere vs. students' psychological or physical disorders); (2) teachers and materials (e.g., more diverse/interesting audiovisual materials vs. too challenging materials); (3) technologies (e.g., new education strategies, such as gamification vs. barriers in the access to the internet); (4) classes/training (e.g., more versatile/immediate classes vs. eventual presence of other persons during online classes); and (5) faculty/school of pharmacy (e.g., availability of technical support).

conclusionOverall, online education seems to be suitable for pharmacy students, although diverse challenges should be addressed, such as the well-being of students or lack of standards. Pharmacy schools should regularly identify/define and implement measures to reinforce opportunities and strengths as well as to solve threats and weaknesses.

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educatione-learningpharmacystudents’ perspectivesstudents’ well-beingSWOT analysis

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PMID37218971
PMCPMC10204418

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