PATIENT ORIENTED COMPETENCIES AND LEVELS IN TURKISH NATIONAL PHARMACY CORE CURRICULUM

1 Gökbulut A1, Özçelikay G2
2 Department of Pharmacognosy, Ankara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey

Department of Pharmacy Management, Ankara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey

INTRODUCTION

Core curriculum (EczÇEP-2015) is the main program that manifests the fundamentals and draws out the framework of pre-graduate pharmacy education which should be implemented in our country. The two main basis of EczÇEP-2015 which present the pre-graduate pharmacy education are programme social competencies and pharmacy technical competencies. The social competencies (pharmacy qualifications) are defined as the attitudes and characteristics of the pharmacist to be acquired by the faculty. These features are based on the basic study fields of the pharmacy profession and by examining the standard examples of the World. Pharmacy technical competencies are the skills that an individual should have in relation to his/her profession. In other words, these features show aperson which level of tasks he/she can perform when he/she graduates. In this study, in particular, the qualifications required for the pharmacy and the clinical pharmacists will be determined in Turkish National Pharmacy Core Curriculum.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The material of this study will be the National Pharmacy Core Curriculum adopted by the Council of Higher Education on 25.12.2015. In this program, patient-oriented competencies will be discussed and compared with overseas samples.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Pharmacy technical competencies have been studied in six key areas: • Pharmacy practice
• Symptoms and clinical conditions
• Judicial and psychosocial conditions

• Personal health status
• Public health and related conditions
• Environmental (physical and socio-cultural) and global situations

There are 169 competencies under the heading of pharmaceutical practices related to above mentioned areas. Four levels set for these competencies.

• Have knowledge about how to do the application and do routing.
• Perform an application stand-alone by using resources/guidelines or help.
• Do without help in general applications.
• Do stand-alone in complex situations. The level codes are different for the other

competencies.
Synthesis and production of drugs, finished product analysis, preparation, presentation to the patient and rationalist use of the patient's medication are the factors that directly affect human health. When the national core curriculum of Turkish pharmacy is examined, it is understood that all competencies are patient-oriented, but in this study we especially focused on the competencies and their levels that are prepared according to the skills and behaviours which the pharmacist should have when faced with the patient.
According to the outcomes of the study, 76 of the 169 pharmacy practices competencies include behaviours expected to occur when the pharmacist is confronted with the patient. 5 of these

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behaviours were specified as level 1, 36 of them were at level 2, 17 of them were at level 3 and 18 of them were at level 4.

CONCLUSIONS

In this study, the competencies required for the pharmacists who are in contact with patients are determined and discussed in Turkish National Pharmacy Core Curriculum