Application of joint analysis to ongoing training of pharmacy personnel

Abstract

Introduction

Ongoing training by means of clinical sessions constitutes an essential activity for a pharmacy department, being joint analysis useful to adapt the clinical sessions’ characteristics to the preferences of the professionals involved. By means of this study we hope to optimize clinical sessions for their better use and efficiency.

Methods

A least squares model was used to assess the usefulness of different clinical session profiles. Data was collected from 14 individual interviews (7 specialists and 7 residents); these interviews consisted in ordering the clinical session profiles by order of preference.

Results

The most valued attributes were duration of sessions (29.9%) and the structure of teaching content (27.8%) in both groups studied; although the duration of the sessions was assigned greater value by the group of residents (31.1% vs. 27.2%). The availability of bibliographical references was the third attribute most valued (17.9%), and the two last attributes by order of importance were availability of a copy in files for storage (13.8%) and multimedia content (10.5%).

Discussion

The adaptation of clinical sessions as an integral part of ongoing training leads us to see that we can modify the duration, content structure and availability of bibliographical references so as to adapt them to the preferences of the professionals involved. However, according to the population surveyed, other attributes are of little importance