Abstract
Purpose: Pharmacology is widely experienced as a difficult to learn discipline. Unfamiliarity with its technical and medical terms, and how pharmacological principles transfer from theory to practice, is especially troublesome. This known state of affairs is even more compounded where English is not the first language of students in question. This study aimed to discern the crucial aspects of health science students’ reflections from an Eastern – Mediterranean context on the learning and practice of pharmacology using threshold concept framework. Methods: 21 students enrolled in the pharmacology component of a four years’ undergraduate optometry program were recruited for this study. They were provided with prompts and guidelines to write reflective essays related to their learning – teaching experience of pharmacological concepts and constructs in preparation for clinical practice.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 256-263 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Health Professions Education |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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© 2020 King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Keywords
- medical students
- pharmacology
- study and teaching (higher)