- Title
- Perceptions of the preparedness of pharmacy graduates for internship responsibilities in the industrial pharmacy
- Creator
- Putsoane, Mathabelo Maliboche
- Subject
- Pharmacy students
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MPharm
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/46395
- Identifier
- vital:39593
- Description
- Pharmacy graduates in South Africa are expected to undertake a compulsory one-yearinternship in diversepharmacy settings. These settings includethe industrial pharmacy sector,where they are expected to integrate furtherthe knowledge and skills they have acquired during their undergraduate training before entering into the pharmacy profession. The success of graduatesduring the internship,therefore, depends amongst other thingson their perceptions of preparedness. However, the perceptions of South African pharmacy graduates preparedness for the industrial pharmacy settingis not reportedin light of the shift in global pharmacy education from product-based to patient-based education which thus provided the impetus for this study.Semi-structured interviews with individual pharmacy graduateswere utilised to explorethe perceptions of the preparedness regarding the technical and generic skills required of an industrial pharmacy intern. Inductive data analysisculminated in thedevelopment of themes and subthemes. A lack of preparedness as perceived by graduateswas a result of a lack of industrial pharmacy experientialwork-basedpractical training and patient-focused education. Graduates perceived themselves to be fairly prepared with communication and teamwork skills; however, their problem-solving skills werenot clear due tothe scope of work ofanintern pharmacist which hinders them from solvingproblems.Though graduates expressed that they had acquired adequate theoretical training, the lack of practical application resulted in inadequate technical skills preparedness. Graduatespreparedness for the industrial pharmacy can be improved by work-based placements of students in the industry pharmacy setting which will assist students to integrate theory with practice.
- Format
- xv, 115 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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