ArticleBMC medical education2024
Assessing the impact of critical care training on pharmacy students in Egypt: a pre-post study.
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- The Impact of a Community Pharmacy-Led Deworming-Related Counselling Service: An Interventional Study in a Low-to-Middle Income Country.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Community Pharmacists Regarding Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) Use: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundTransition to independent pharmacy practice is challenging. Undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs) currently receive minimal experiential learning in critical care.
objectiveTo assess the critical care training course's impact on pharmacy students' knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-esteem, as well as their satisfaction with the course.
methodIn a pre-post interventional study, pharmacy students took a 10-day critical care training course with experiential learning. They completed a knowledge questionnaire covering various critical care topics, the 18 questions Pharmacy Self-efficacy and Self-esteem Study Questionnaire, and a satisfaction questionnaire. Data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 20.0.
resultsA total of 72 trainees participated in the study. The average score for pre-course self-efficacy and self-esteem significantly increased post-course, with a median (IQR) of 3.75 (3.50-3.94) compared to 3.56 (3.28-3.78) pre-course, with a p-value of less than 0.05. Furthermore, their overall knowledge score significantly increased from baseline to post-course, with the median (IQR) rising from 0.53 (0.50-0.61) to 0.98 (0.97-1.0), with a p-value of less than 0.05. Their course satisfaction average total score was 45.08 (SD ± 5.41) (on a scale of 10-50).
conclusionThe present study provides clear evidence that integrating this critical care training course into a structured curriculum for pharmacy students using experiential learning can act as a facilitator of knowledge enrichment, increase their self-esteem and self-efficacy, and make them satisfied with learning. Larger long duration studies are needed to support this evidence.
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