약대 프리셉터 양성교육 후 프리셉터 역량의 중요도-수행도 분석연구

Importance-Performance Analysis of Pharmacy Preceptors’ Competencies after a Preceptor Education Program

According to the changed ‘2+4’-year pharmacy school curriculum in Korea, pharmacy preceptors play a highly crucial role in educating student pharmacists through practice-based learning. Whether the new curriculum in a Korean pharmacy school will become firmly established or not depends on the competency of a preceptor. Before the preceptors with high competencies are anticipated, the effective education programs for them should be provided. However, there have been little studies regarding the competencies of pharmacy preceptors in Korea. This study was to analyze the degree of differences between importance and performance of preceptors’ competencies. The self-reported questionnaire was utilized to collect data from pharmacists in the preceptor education program of a university. Total 122 pharmacists participated in the program, and 78 responded to the survey questionnaires. The average of importance for overall evaluation items was 4.32 whereas that of performance for them was 3.51 by using a 5-point Likert scale. The evaluation items with relatively marked differences between importance and performance were ‘sufficient time allowance for students’, ‘teaching research results regarding newly approved drugs’, ‘clear understanding of goals and learning contents about pharmacy practice expe- riences’, and ‘plan for systemic experience educations’. Further follow-up researches on changes of the differences in impor- tance-performance of preceptors’ competencies after precepting student pharmacists should be implemented. Furthermore, the effective and appropriate methods for the preceptor education programs based on the follow-up studies should be devel- oped to reduce the difference between importance and performance.