Class of 2009 Abstract / OBJECTIVES: To determine if there is a correlation between student involvement in pharmacy organizations and self-reported professional development.
METHODS: A cross sectional, prospective, print-based questionnaire was submitted to students in their last didactic year of the Doctor of Pharmacy program at one university. The questionnaire was administered during a well attended, regularly scheduled class and students self-assessed their professionalism on the Behavioral Professionalism Assessment and provided data on their degree of involvement in pharmacy professional organizations.
RESULTS: The questionnaire was completed by 78 of 84 students (a 93% response rate). Nearly 94% of participants reported that involvement in pharmacy organizations played some role in their professional development and approximately 30% of these students based this opinion on participation, leadership, and networking opportunities offered by professional organizations. A significant positive correlation between self-reported professionalism and involvement (i.e., the number of: brown bags/health fairs and organizational meetings attended, p<0.05 for each) was identified.
CONCLUSIONS: A relationship was identified between professionalism and involvement at one college of pharmacy. Further research should be conducted at other colleges of pharmacy to determine if these data can be generalized to the larger pharmacy student population.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623917 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Bradford, Dominique, Watmore, Priscilla |
| Contributors | Warholak, Terri, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Electronic Report |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. |
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