Identifying and evaluating gaps in knowledge, skills, and qualities necessary for a career in academia

Evidence for the development of skills for education, leadership and innovation through experiential‐based foundational pharmacy residency programs: a narrative review

“…pharmacy residents are regularly involved in providing a variety of different teaching activities, such as facilitating small and large lectures for pharmacy students, instructing classes, serving as preceptors and mentors to pharmacy students, and facilitating clinical examinations, amongst many other teaching and mentoring tasks. 11,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] Foundation pharmacy residency programs have improved residents' competencies to deliver education and teaching, and to build the foundational skills in becoming strong mentors and preceptors when offered the adequate opportunities. [13][14][15][20][21][22][24][25][26] In the USA, the use of teaching certificate programs for pharmacy residents to gain the knowledge and competencies to deliver pharmacy education and refine their skills in teaching and mentoring has become a core component of residency training.…”

“…Education and mentorship represent important domains in the SHPA competency framework for pharmacy residents in Australia 9,10 . Internationally, foundational pharmacy residents are regularly involved in providing a variety of different teaching activities, such as facilitating small and large lectures for pharmacy students, instructing classes, serving as preceptors and mentors to pharmacy students, and facilitating clinical examinations, amongst many other teaching and mentoring tasks 11,13–25 . Foundation pharmacy residency programs have improved residents’ competencies to deliver education and teaching, and to build the foundational skills in becoming strong mentors and preceptors when offered the adequate opportunities 13–15,20–22,24–26 .…”

A Scoping Review of Educator Proficiency Interventions in Pharmacy Education Illustrated by an Interdisciplinary Model Integrating Pedagogical Theories into Practice

“…All seven publications used or integrated a certain degree of pedagogical knowledge development, including learning theory and teaching strategies in undergraduate pharmacy education, and were complemented by experiential components, which encourage a deeper understanding, enhance reflective ability and ensure improvements in teaching competency [22,23].…”

“…We propose that the integration of pedagogical knowledge development and relevant expertise play a key role in ensuring optimal intervention results. Based on extensive literature [10,13,15,17,18,23,27,30,31], we propose that teaching delivery methods should be selected in optimal support for the given course objectives, since educator strategies will impact student experiences, student learning and the rate of involvement, thereby influencing course effectiveness. The reviewed studies propose that active-learning, or more "student-friendly" teaching strategies, enhance student learning experiences and effectiveness.…”