Developing Teaching Skills during the Pharmacy Practice Residency Program: METHODS part 2
Survey of Current BC Residency Coordinators
The coordinators of the 2004 BC residency programs were also surveyed by e-mail. A total of 8 coordinators (representing the 6 BC programs in operation at the time) were surveyed. The survey consisted of 17 multiple-choice questions. It solicited demographic information such as current job title, practice setting (teaching or nonteaching hospital), years of experience as a program coordinator, whether the pharmacy department trained undergraduate students during the residency year, whether any learning sessions conducted by pharmacists involved both undergraduate students and residents, and the department’s perceptions on training residents as preceptors.
Telephone Survey of Other Canadian Residency Coordinators
To obtain input on the topic from other Canadian residency program coordinators, results from the Residency Matching Service of the Canadian Hospital Pharmacy Residency Board (CHPRB) were used to identify the 25 accredited pharmacy residency programs that had been matched with residents as of March 2004 (out of 27 programs). The coordinator of each program was contacted by telephone to determine whether the programs provided opportunities for residents to develop teaching skills and how this was done or, for those that did not offer such opportunities, the reasons why and whether there was any intention to do so in the future.
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Analysis of Data
All of the data from each of the surveys were analyzed, but only those deemed most relevant to the issues addressed in this paper are presented and discussed here.
