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Title: | Identifying the core concepts of pharmacology education | Contributor(s): | White, Paul J (author); Davis, Elizabeth A (author); Santiago, Marina (author); Angelo, Tom (author); Shield, Alison (author); Babey, Anna-Marie (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2021-08 | Early Online Version: | 2021-07-21 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1002/prp2.836 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31477 | Abstract: | Pharmacology education currently lacks an agreed knowledge curriculum. Evidence from physics and biology education indicates that core concepts are useful and effective structures around which such a curriculum can be designed to facilitate student learning. Building on previous work, we developed a novel, criterion-based method to identify the core concepts of pharmacology education. Five novel criteria were developed, based on a literature search, to separate core concepts in pharmacology from topics and facts. Core concepts were agreed to be big ideas, enduring, difficult, applicable across contexts, and useful to solve problems. An exploratory survey of 33 pharmacology educators from Australia and New Zealand produced 109 terms, which were reduced to a working list of 26 concepts during an online workshop. Next, an expert group of 12 educators refined the working list to 19 concepts, by applying the five criteria and consolidating synonyms, and added three additional concepts that emerged during discussions. A confirmatory survey of a larger group resulted in 17 core concepts of pharmacology education. This list may be useful for educators to evaluate existing curricula, design new curricula, and to inform the development of a concept inventory to test attainment of the core concepts in pharmacology. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 9(5), p. 1-13 | Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 2052-1707 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390303 Higher education 390110 Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy 390113 Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160102 Higher education 160301 Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum 160302 Pedagogy |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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