Teaching research skills to student pharmacists: A multi-campus, multi-semester applied critical care research elective.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Research electives are commonly offered in doctor of pharmacy programs but are typically limited to one faculty member mentoring individual students at a single site for a semester long self-study experience. The purpose of this paper is to describe pharmacy student experiences and perceptions of the research process after completing a multi-campus, multi-investigator critical care research elective.

Educational activity and setting

The Research in Critical Care Pharmacotherapy elective was launched in spring 2019 and implemented a novel approach to the pharmacy research elective that promoted collaborative research across four campuses that may be continued for up to four semesters of credit.

Findings

Six second- and third-year doctor of pharma

SUBMITTER: Smith SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7999379 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature