Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
FIP Pharmacy Practice Research summer meeting for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and supervisors conference, Granada, İspanya, 3 - 04 Temmuz 2023, cilt.23, sa.5, ss.34
Introduction:Pharmacy education is crucialin preparing competent future pharmacists and ensuring safe and effective medication use in geriatric healthcare.Objectives:This study aimed to evaluate how pharmacotherapy knowledge on geriatric healthcare evolved due tothe education received by pharmacy students during their school years.Methods: The geriatric knowledge assessment scale (GKAS) is used in this study to collect data from pharmacy students. The GKAS is a validated questionnaire consisting of 28 multiple-choice questions.Results: This study reveals the knowledge difference and the effectiveness of geriatric healthcare education in the pharmacy curriculum between the first-year and last-year students of the pharmacy school. The results of this study will help us to estimate the healthcare quality that will be given by newly graduated pharmacists to the geriatric population, as well as give an idea about the competence of pharmacy students in the pharmacotherapy dimension of geriatric care.Conclusions: This research is the preliminary step for further studies to plan and implement updates of the education given in the school of pharmacy on geriatric patients toadapt to the contemporary needs, requirements, and expectations to enforce the education creating sustainable value.