Course experiences, satisfaction and career intent of final year pre-registration Australian pharmacy students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Australia, the profession of pharmacy has undergone many changes to adapt to the needs of the community. In recent years, concerns have been raised with evidence emerging of workforce saturation in traditional pharmacy practice sectors. It is not known how current final year pharmacy students' perceive the different pharmacy career paths in this changing environment. Hence investigating students' current experiences with their pharmacy course, interaction with the profession and developing an understanding of their career intentions would be an important step, as these students would make up a large proportion of future pharmacy workforce.

Objective

The objective of this study was thus to investigate final year students' career perspectives and the reasons for

SUBMITTER: Shen G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4100949 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature