Pharmacy educators' views on graduate attributes and case-based learning in an undergraduate degree.

Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning
Vanessa SinghJohan Wassermann

Abstract

The nature, form, and process of activating graduate attributes is an expanding research focus within the field of professional education. The focus on graduate capabilities has led to higher education institutions interrogating current curricula practices with a view to exploring innovative ways to transform curricula and pedagogy. This article explores pharmacy educators' views on which graduate attributes are important and investigates the role of case-based learning (CBL) in developing graduate attributes in a single university program. This qualitative study is based on data drawn from reflective interviews with pharmacy educators on graduate attributes and from document analysis. Data were analyzed against a framework of graduate attributes and grouped into three domains encompassing knowledge and action as well as construction of graduates' identities as members of a profession. The graduate attributes identified by pharmacy educators resonated with the extant literature, organizational policy documents, and the professional council's accreditation framework. The domains of knowledge (Domain 1) and possessing and displaying (Domain 2) are sufficiently addressed in the curriculum. However, engagement with identity constru...Continue Reading

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