Sustainable Pharmacy Education in the Time of COVID-19

Lyons, Kayley; Christopoulos, Arthur; Brock, Tina

doi:10.5688/ajpe8088

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“…[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Zheng SQ et al provides useful general recommendations for providing pharmaceutical care services during pandemic. 13 A few papers have been published mainly focused on the effect of pandemic on pharmacy students 14,15 while none has addressed the role of pharmacists in training with their need for proper training, guidance, and access to and use of personal protective equipment.…”

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Coping with the residency program during COVID-19: Hematology oncology pharmacy residents’ perspective

AlAzmi

Alnajjar

AlShomrani

2020

J Oncol Pharm Pract

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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in all governmental activities in Saudi Arabia including training and teaching, with the majority of such activities suspended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We aim to share the challenges that Hematology Oncology Pharmacy (HOP) residents faced during the quarantine period and provide recommendations on how to cope with the residency journey. Method We followed a qualitative methodological approach in March 2020 using a structured virtual group discussion for data generation. Results All six PGY2 hematology oncology pharmacy (HOP) residents were included in the group discussion. The group agreed that the need for HOP services during this pandemic is beyond the scope of oncology pharmacists’ normal daily practice. The group recognized two fundamental points. First, the goal of the current training should be customized to the most pressing need and recognized at the national level. Second, the current training system should be improved to ensure efficient use of current resources. On this basis, the group developed six main recommendations for action. Conclusion The current situation is a challenge for all healthcare providers, and the majority of the nation’s current generation never dealt with such a situation in days gone by. This paper presents the challenges that should be addressed at the national level and provide a fundamental consensus recommendation for practical approaches to maximize learning and minimize disruption to trainees’ progression while maintaining patient-pharmacy quality of care.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coping with the residency program during COVID-19: Hematology oncology pharmacy residents’ perspective

AlAzmi

Alnajjar

AlShomrani

2020

J Oncol Pharm Pract

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“…As an immediate remedy and to keep students engaged, previous webcast links and online lectures were made available. Audio-dubbed lecture slides and online quizzes were quickly added (Lyons, 2020). Discussions boards, etutorials and online lectures were linked to the schools virtual learning portal (Veasuvalingam and Goodson 2020).…”

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Engaging Medical Students During Covid-19 – Challenges and Novel Opportunities for Clinical Training

Mohideen¹

2020

SE Asian Jnl Med Educ

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted undergraduate clinical training in an unprecedented manner. With face-face student-patient interaction severely curtailed and hands-on training limited, the pandemic has upended experiential learning in a major way. Methods: The aim of this review was to examine the challenges faced and actions taken by medical schools and explore opportunities to overcome the loss of clinical training due to constrains by the public health measures to the COVID-19 crisis. The relevant literature was searched in PubMed, and Google Scholar using specific keywords, e.g., "COVID-19 "medical education," "challenges," and "opportunities." Results: Four themes were explored; initial response, mitigation measures, innovative solutions and future plans. Halting undergraduate clinical training was widespread except in a few countries where student's graduation was fast-tracked to serve the national healthcare workforce or assigned to nonclinical work. The loss of experiential learning was replaced by successfully transitioning to emergency remote online teaching through lectures, videos, quizzes and webinars. These are perceived as stopgap measures and falls short of replacing the authentic face to face learning in a clinical environment. Several innovative immersive methods were showcased using telehealth and virtual reality technologies and found to be useful and meaningful solutions to the loss of clinical interactions in the circumstances. Although these are attractive technological solutions, it is unlikely to be adopted in low resource setting until cost and training issues are resolved. Future plans will need to take the new-normal post covid environment into consideration and embrace the emergent technology to mitigate against further disruption. Conclusions: Significant widespread disruption to medical education has impacted clinical learning and delayed graduation. The rapid institutional response has mitigated the impact and kept students educationally engaged. The pandemic has highlighted that the immersive clinical experience in wards and interactive small group sessions are not easily replaceable. The challenge is to develop an innovative post-COVID medical education plan that will ensure a continuity in learning with academic competency.

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“…Ten of the articles were about pharmacy practice and were not reviewed ( Figure 1 ). Of the remaining 28 [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ], most were solely focused on addressing the challenges presented by current events, with only a few describing seizing opportunities that represent the needs of the future. In “Pharmacy Education Crosses the Rubicon”, the authors stated that “the pre-COVID-19 global response of the Academy to [technological] changes around us might have been described as incremental” and “the pandemic has forced us into a state of out-of-the-box thinking and creative problem-solving” [ 24 ].…”

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Leading a Digital Transformation in Pharmacy Education with a Pandemic as the Accelerant

Mirzaian

Franson

2021

Pharmacy

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The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only posed a challenge to education but created an opportunity to spearhead a digital transformation and the novel delivery of a Pharm.D. curriculum. The process to transform the curriculum in a sustainable and iterative manner involved multiple steps including: (1) Communication, (2) Maintaining faculty engagement, (3) Allowing outside the box thinking, (4) Providing resources and tools and (5) Creating accountability and timelines. At our institution, we have been interested in digital transformation since completing our interview of global leaders. We began our journey using the current COVID-19 pandemic as an accelerant for change. Digital transformation in any industry is not a simple undertaking. However, with planning, aligned organizational interests, consistent and regular communication, provision of resources and tools, engaging faculty and creating accountability and timelines with deliverables the implementation can be successful. When the global pandemic wanes and educational institutions commence in-person classes, having undergone the stages of digital transformation, we will be able to embrace these changes and transform education, not having to reproduce pre-pandemic educational systems.

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Sustainable Pharmacy Education in the Time of COVID-19

Cited by 93 publications

References 8 publications

Coping with the residency program during COVID-19: Hematology oncology pharmacy residents’ perspective

Coping with the residency program during COVID-19: Hematology oncology pharmacy residents’ perspective

Engaging Medical Students During Covid-19 – Challenges and Novel Opportunities for Clinical Training

Leading a Digital Transformation in Pharmacy Education with a Pandemic as the Accelerant

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