LSTM Home > LSTM Research > LSTM Online Archive

Deploying and Maintaining Standards of New Pharmacy Services Provision in Poland-Introducing the National Pharmacist Competencies Assessment Tool: Pre-Registration Exam–Results of the Pilot Project

Merks, Piotr, Religioni, Urszula, Howell, Aleksandra, Munzu, Marvin, Panford-Quainoo, Edwin, Neumann-Podczaska, Agnieszka, Jaskólski, Radosław, Kaczmarek, Beata, Kaźmierczak, Justyna, Blicharska, Eliza, Olczyk, Paweł, Barańska, Agnieszka, Waszyk-Nowaczyk, Magdalena and Krysiński, Jerzy (2022) 'Deploying and Maintaining Standards of New Pharmacy Services Provision in Poland-Introducing the National Pharmacist Competencies Assessment Tool: Pre-Registration Exam–Results of the Pilot Project'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 19, Issue 13, p. 7809.

[img]
Preview
Text
Deploying and Maintaining Standards of New Pharmacy.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution.

Download (312kB) | Preview

Abstract

Despite the functioning of the Bologna Declaration, the knowledge and skills of graduates educated in different countries may differ significantly. Therefore, this article aims to present the differences in results of the final exam in pharmacy among Polish pharmacy students. This exam was modeled on the British national exam supervised by the General Pharmaceutical Council. The exam was conducted in three cities in Poland, among a total of 175 final-year students (a full sample of those eligible was 451 with 276 refusals (38.58% response rate)). Taking the exam was voluntary and anonymous. The results indicate that none of the Polish students achieved the 70% mark required to pass the Great Britain exam. Significant differences in test results were noticed between cities. Students achieved the best average exam result in Bydgoszcz (46.35%), then in Warsaw (38.81%) and Łódź (38.35%). The pharmaceutical education system in Poland requires complete changes that will prepare future pharmacists for clinical work

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This article belongs to the Special Issue Patient Counselling in the Secondary Care or Safer Medication Handling by Health Care Workers
Subjects: WA Public Health > WA 20.5 Research (General)
WA Public Health > Health Administration and Organization > WA 540 National and state health administration
WA Public Health > Health Administration and Organization > WA 546 Local Health Administration. Community Health Services
Faculty: Department: Biological Sciences > Department of Tropical Disease Biology
Digital Object Identifer (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137809
Depositing User: Marie Hatton
Date Deposited: 20 Jul 2022 09:50
Last Modified: 20 Jul 2022 09:50
URI: https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/20707

Statistics

View details

Actions (login required)

Edit Item Edit Item