期刊名称：Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
电子版ISSN：1975-5937
出版年度：2012
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：1-5
DOI：10.3352/jeehp.2012.9.6
语种：English
出版社：Korea Health Insurance Licensing Examination Institute
摘要：The present study aims to explore the perceptions among pharmacy practitioners in Libya on the importance of social pharmacy education.A qualitative methodology was employed to conduct this study.Using a purposive sampling tech_x0002_nique,a total of ten Libyan registered pharmacists were interviewed.Based on the content analysis of the interviews,two major themes emerged,namely the understanding of social pharmacy education and the need for incorporating social pharmacy courses into the pharmacy education curriculum.The majority of the respondents knew about the concept.Of those that had no prior knowledge of this term,half of them expressed interest in knowing more about it.There was a positive perception of introducing social pharmacy into the undergraduate curricula among the respondents,and they believed that it is necessary for future pharmacists to know about social pharmacy components.The findings from the pharmacy practitioners’ evaluation suggest the need to incorporate social pharmacy courses into the curricula of all phar?macy schools in Libya.
关键词：The present study aims to explore the perceptions among pharmacy practitioners in Libya on the importance of social pharmacy education.A qualitative methodology was employed to conduct this study.Using a purposive sampling tech_x0002_nique,a total of ten Libyan registered pharmacists were interviewed.Based on the content analysis of the interviews,two major themes emerged,namely the understanding of social pharmacy education and the need for incorporating social pharmacy courses into the pharmacy education curriculum.The majority of the respondents knew about the concept.Of those that had no prior knowledge of this term,half of them expressed interest in knowing more about it.There was a positive perception of introducing social pharmacy into the undergraduate curricula among the respondents,and they believed that it is necessary for future pharmacists to know about social pharmacy components.The findings from the pharmacy practitioners’ evaluation suggest the need to incorporate social pharmacy courses into the curricula of all phar?macy schools in Libya.
