Pharmacogenomics education strategies in the United States pharmacy school curricula.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn
; 16(3): 221-230, 2024 03.
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| ID: mdl-38281827
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Clinical pharmacogenomics is an expanding area in healthcare that relies heavily on pharmacists for advocacy and implementation. To support pharmacists' significant roles in clinical pharmacogenomics, pharmacy schools and colleges in the United States (US) have strived to incorporate pharmacogenomics education into their curricula, and various teaching strategies have been employed in recent years to meet pharmacogenomics educational outcomes. The six major strategies reported in the literature are described and compared in this review, which culminates in a proposed longitudinal curriculum design for pharmacogenomics education.METHODS:
Publications focused on pharmacogenomics education to pharmacy students within the US in the past decade were evaluated and summarized.RESULTS:
The major education strategies that have been studied are didactic lecture, personal genotyping or personal genomic testing, simulation laboratory activity, interprofessional education, practice-based activity such as clinical rotation, and combinational courses. Strengths and limitations of each teaching strategy are summarized and discussed. IMPLICATIONS Based upon each education strategy's strengths and weaknesses, the authors propose a longitudinal curriculum design to ensure that pharmacogenomics is taught multiple times to pharmacy students with diverse formats and teaching objectives conducive to long-term knowledge retention and practice readiness. Through this longitudinal curriculum design, pharmacy graduates will be well equipped to lead clinical pharmacogenomics in practice.Palavras-chave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Farmacogenética
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Educação em Farmácia
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article