A Structured Approach for Teaching Students to Counsel Self-care Patients

Abstract

Objectives. To determine whether the use of a structured interviewing framework improved students' ability to treat self-care patients. Design. First-professional year pharmacy students (P1) in their first quarter of Pharmacy Practice Skills Development were taught self-care through a series of 4 modules. In each module students' content knowledge and application were assessed using quizzes and role-play scenarios, respectively. During the second module, a structured interview model (QuEST process) was presented by the instructor and students were tested on the same content and role-play used in module 1. Assessment. Sixty-four students completed the 4 self-care modules. Quiz scores improved from the first to the second module (75.8% vs. 88.4%, p , 0.001). Mean role-play scores also significantly improved after learning the QuEST process. Conclusion. The QuEST process is an effective tool to teach students how to counsel patients with self-care issues.

Redesign of a Large Lecture Course Into a Small-Group Learning Course

“…The small-group activities initially focused on learning the acronym SCHOLAR-MAC (Symptoms; Characteristics of symptoms; History of symptoms; Onset; Location; Aggravating factors; Remitting factors; Medications; Allergies; Conditions), 14 a pneumonic device that allows students to quickly and accurately assess a patient for a self-care condition. One example of these activities is a role-play scenario in which 1 student played the patient and another played the pharmacist.…”

Starz-Drp: A Tool for Pharmacy Triage Services

“…However, our study is demonstrating the feasibility of STARZ-DRP as a systematic and structured framework, using to screen out for major illnesses that need for immediate medical attention and identifying DRPs, adding more value to the previous frameworks. Comparing with other frameworks [14][15][16][17][18][19], STARZ-DRP is presented in an organized form, using to document patient medical profile, helping CPs to analyze the information, and establish drug therapy plan including referral activities [20]. In this form, CPs are required to establish a follow-up schedule to review the effectiveness of the drug therapy plan, changing to new medications or referring to GPs when necessary, as demonstrated in this study.…”

“…However, there are no such documenting activities when CPs use other frameworks [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In addition, other frameworks do not require CPs to establish a follow-up schedule with patients to review the decision made [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Therefore, the authors are promoting STARZ-DRP Form to be used for pharmacy triage services.…”

“…In this form, CPs are required to establish a follow-up schedule to review the effectiveness of the drug therapy plan, changing to new medications or referring to GPs when necessary, as demonstrated in this study. However, there are no such documenting activities when CPs use other frameworks [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In addition, other frameworks do not require CPs to establish a follow-up schedule with patients to review the decision made [14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

“…However, the role requires a structured and systematic approach to follow as a guideline to perform this duty. WWHAM, ASMETHOD, SIT DOWN SIR, ENCORE, CHAPS-FRAPS, and QuEST/SCHOLAR are among the structured and systematic approach, promoted to be used to screen out patients for major illnesses [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Nevertheless, there are some limitations about these approaches that have been reviewed elsewhere [20].…”