REAP

Pharmacy Practice

Rx TutorDr Anne Boyter, Dr John Dempster, Prof Kathleen Kane, Mr Ian Thompson

ian.thompson@strath.ac.uk©University of Strathclyde 2006

Pharmacy

• Two part project

1. Foundation Pharmacy• improving essay feedback

• integration of feedback into student ePDP

2. Pharmacy Practice

• prescription (Rx) tutor

Pharmacy Practice 3

• the main competency based evaluation of dispensing practice in MPharm

• basis of class is a series of exercises in dispensing

• limited opportunity for students to work through appropriate examples and obtain one-to-one feedback from staff

• students perceive class more difficult to pass than others

Pharmacy Practice 3

• final assessment - 3 hour examination where students have to dispense 5 items accurately

• students start with 100%, marks deducted for errors

• students cannot gain marks during the examination

• making critical errors, such as dispensing an illegal prescription or an overdose, scores very low marks/ fail

Script (Rx) Tutor

• an electronic, SPIDER based version of existing paper based exercise

• instant marking

• personalised feedback

• pilot of 9 Rx

• accumulation/ history of errors to focus student

Script (Rx) Tutor - current status

• final year project students created Rx and errors for pilot

• basic system running on SPIDER

• piloted on current year 3 & 4 students

• collected feedback

Script (Rx) Tutor - plans

• modify system to allow input of additional Rx

• extend capabilities

• link to student ePDP & professional skills

• staff view class error histogram react to class needs

• cater to other disciplines (custom error lists)

Addresses

SPIDER http://spider.science.strath.ac.ukspider-vle@strath.ac.uk