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Objectives. To explore the opinion and recommendations of university and healthcare professional experts regarding the Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE) curriculum of the King Saud University College of Pharmacy located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods.A roundtable discussion was conducted with 48 healthcare professionals of different backgrounds during a one-day meeting organized for the purpose of the study. The discussion

3 (HUI3) is a generic multiattribute preference-based measure of health status and health-related quality of life that is widely used as an outcome measure in clinical studies, in population health surveys, in the estimation of quality-adjusted life years. We aimed to present a multi-attribute utility function and eight single-attribute utility functions for the HUI3 system based on community preferences in Japan. Methods: Two preference surveys were conducted. One, the modeling survey, collected preference scores for the estimation of the utility functions. The other, the direct survey, provided independent scores to assess the predictive validity of the utility functions. Preference measures included value scores obtained on the Feeling Thermometer and standard gamble utility scores obtained using the Chance Board. We recruited 1,043 respondents (aged 20-79) from the general population, stratified by gender and age group, from five Japanese cities. Results: Estimates were obtained for eight single-attribute utility functions and an overall multi-attribute utility function (MAUF). The Japanese HUI3 MAUF is u=1.016*(b1*b2*b3*b4*b5*b6*b7*b8)-0.016. The minimum predicted multi-attribute utility score was-0.002. The intraclass correlation coefficient between directly measured utility scores and scores generated by the multi-attribute function for 53 health states was 0.742. Conclusions: The HUI3 scoring function was developed in Japan has strong theoretical and empirical foundations. It seems to perform well in predicting directly measured scores for health technology assessment in Japan.