(1) To investigate pharmacy students' perceptions of 10 occupations within the medical and allied professions: community pharmacists, dentists, dietitians, general medical practitioners (GPs), hospital pharmacists, medical specialists, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and social workers. (2) To explore students' perceptions of community and hospital pharmacists at different stages of a four-year undergraduate programme and at the year of pre-registration training.
A 90-item questionnaire was administered to 543 pharmacy undergraduates and 95 graduates undergoing their pre-registration year training in 2001.
Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Students perceived the health care professions along three major dimensions, relating to “empathy”, “potency” and “expertise”. On an empathy dimension, students rated community pharmacists the highest and medical specialists the lowest. On a potency dimension, students rated medical specialists the most powerful, community and hospital pharmacists significantly lower, and nurses the lowest. On an expertise dimension, students rated medical specialists the highest and dietitians the lowest. A significant pattern of differences was noted in students' perceptions and a possible decline was identified in the potency rating of pharmacists at different stages of the pharmacy programme.
These differences may be attributed to the differences in the students' value systems, skills and experiences, the influence of reference groups and the content and structure of the educational and training programme in each year.
(1) 调查药学生对医疗和相关职业中的10种职业的认知:社区药剂师、牙医、营养师、全科医生、医院药剂师、医学专家、护士、职业治疗师、物理治疗师和社工。(2) 探讨学生对四年本科课程和预注册培训年的社区和医院药剂师的认知。
在2001年,向543名药学本科生和95名正在进行预注册年培训的毕业生进行了90项问卷调查。
澳大利亚悉尼大学药学院。
学生认为医疗保健职业有三个主要维度,与“同理心”、“效能”和“专业知识”有关。在同理心维度上,学生评价社区药剂师最高,医学专家最低。在效能维度上,学生认为医学专家最强大,社区和医院药剂师显著较低,护士最低。在专业知识维度上,学生认为医学专家最高,营养师最低。发现了学生认知上的差异,并在药学课程的不同阶段中发现了药剂师效能评价的可能下降趋势。
这些差异可能归因于学生价值观、技能和经验的差异,参考群体的影响以及每年教育和培训计划的内容和结构。