Class of 2006 Abstract / Objectives: To create, deliver, and evaluate a malignant melanoma continuing education (CE) seminar for pharmacists. Methods: A CE program was developed and presented to educate pharmacists about skin cancer prevention, specifically malignant melanoma, and their role in prevention through patient counseling. All practicing pharmacists who attended the CE program were asked to fill out a knowledge indicator and assess their comfort level in counseling patients about sun safety before and after the program. The participants also answered questions addressing how often they counsel patients on sunscreen use, their personal experience with skin cancer, preferred CE format, previous CE attendance, sex, age, practice site, hours worked per week, and years since graduation from pharmacy school. Results: The survey instrument was completed by 84 pharmacists. The average score on the pre-test knowledge indicator was 4.95 ± 0.39 and the average score on the post-test knowledge indicator was 7.81 ± 0.39. This was a significant improvement (p < 0.01). There was a significant increase in participant comfort level when counseling patients about sun safety after attending the CE program (p < 0.01). Personal experience with skin cancer did not have a significant effect on the pre-test knowledge indicator scores, however it was associated with the knowledge indicator change score (p < 0.01). Completion of previous skin cancer CE programs did not have a significant effect on the pre-test knowledge indicator score or the change score. Conclusions: Pharmacists who attended the CE program improved their knowledge indicator scores when tested about malignant melanoma and sun safety. Many participants felt more comfortable counseling patients about sun safety and felt their counseling on sun safety would change as a result of attending this CE program.

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-22T11:21:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 welingtonluissachetti.pdf: 1626484 bytes, checksum: fc26b1e79605da64850eb292d052027a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T18:50:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 welingtonluissachetti.pdf: 1626484 bytes, checksum: fc26b1e79605da64850eb292d052027a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T18:50:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 welingtonluissachetti.pdf: 1626484 bytes, checksum: fc26b1e79605da64850eb292d052027a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-07 / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar o Programa de Formação Continuada (PFC) do Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza (CPS) - reformulado em 2012 pelo Grupo de Estudos de Educação a Distância (GEEaD) – por meio da avaliação dos egressos das formações e a partir destes dados propor um plano de ação que contemple as ações voltadas ao refinamento da política de formação continuada do departamento, bem como, dados os resultados da pesquisa, verificar a possível ampliação dela na Instituição. A pesquisa, qualitativa, realizou-se com questionários semiabertos, aplicados junto aos egressos que participaram da totalidade das 3 (três) Unidades do PFC e de mais de 50% delas. A investigação compreendeu um período de 18 meses, entre julho de 2012 e dezembro de 2013, e trabalhou com as respostas de 27 professores egressos do PFC. A dissertação está dividida em 3 capítulos, sendo que o Capítulo 1 tratou de apresentar o Centro Paula Souza e o PFC com seu histórico e reformulações; o Capítulo 2 analisou os resultados da pesquisa e, por fim, o capítulo 3 diante dos apontamentos da pesquisa, apresentou um Plano de Ação Educacional (PAE) com proposições voltadas à reformulação do PFC. Nesse sentido, o presente estudo subsidiará possíveis ajustes nas Unidades e, consequentemente, a preparação de professores que futuramente passarão pelos PFC para que integrem da melhor forma as tecnologias de informação e comunicação em suas práticas de trabalho, potencializando mudanças nas ações pedagógicas, a fim de contribuir com a melhoria da qualidade da educação. / The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the Continuing Education Program (CEP) of the Paula Souza Technological Education State Center (PSC). It was reformulated in 2012 by a Group of Studies on Distance Education (GSDE). Through the evaluation of the egresses from the formations and from these to propose an action plan, that include actions directed to the refinement of the policy of the further education department, as well as, from the research results, verify for the possible extension of it in the institution. The qualitative research was carried out with semi-open questionnaires, applied to the egresses who participated in the totally of the 3 (three) Units of CEP , and more than 50% of them. The period of this research was of 18 months, between July 2012 until December 2013 , and the answers of the 27 graduate teachers from CEP, were analyzed in this period. The dissertation is divided by three Chapters; the history and the reformulations of the Paula Souza Center and CEP were presented in the first Chapter; the research results were analyzed in the second Chapter; and finally, an Educational Action Plan (EAP) with propositions to the reformulations of EAP, according with the research results, it was presented in the third Chapter. In this sense, this study will subsidize possible adjustments in the Units and, consequently, the preparation of teachers who will later pass by CEP to incorporate the best information and communication technologies into their working practices, therefore enhancing changes in pedagogical actions in order to contribute to the improvement in the quality of education.