Improving Student Confidence in Skill Performance in a Pharmaceutical Care Lab Setting
Keywords:
Confidence, Laboratory, Skill, StudentsAbstract
Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of improving student self-confidence in performing skills taught in the second-year pharmaceutical care lab (PCL).
Design: Pre-semester and post-semester surveys were administered to students in order to assess whether student confidence in performing the skills covered in the curriculum improved.
Assessment: A paired t-test was used to assess the ordinal data under the assumption that the difference between ranks is approximately equivalent
Conclusions: Results indicate that student confidence significantly improved in most areas covered in the second-year pharmaceutical care lab curriculum.
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