PHARMACY preceptors and interns in the ACT, Victoria and South Australia, are being asked to share their thoughts on the usability and practicality of proposed new assessment tools for pharmacy interns.
The six tools developed by the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) and the Pharmacy Board of Australia cover the three assessments - in-training assessment (ITA), case-based discussion (CbD), and entrustable professional activities (EPA), as part of its Intern Pharmacy Blueprint document.
For ITA activities the APC has developed a health promotion, health services and public health tool, which provides structured guidance and templates to help interns support initiatives designed to maintain or improve the health of members of the public, while a reflection tool has been designed to give interns a means of learning by looking back at incidents or observations during their intern training.
Under the EPA assessment the APC has an intern and preceptor guide which describes why and how to adopt an EPA-based framework and develop to support assessments on dispensing medicines, compounding pharmaceutical products, and providing counselling.
The APC said the CbD tool was designed to give interns and preceptors a structured guide to support learning and facilitate assessment from discussion of a case encountered in the workplace.
The APC will pilot the tools in hospital and community pharmacies in the ACT, Victoria and South Australia later this year.
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