A novel approach to team-based simulation exercises for MPharm Year 4 students, within a community pharmacy environment – Prof Louise Brown

The purpose of this presentation is to share our experience of collaborating with a local community pharmacy to deliver simulation sessions within their pharmacy premises. At the School of Pharmacy, final year pharmacy students attend a real community pharmacy, and in small groups form a pharmacy team and run their “simulated pharmacy” within the pharmacy environment. During the simulation, students have access to all the medicines and resources available at the community pharmacy while they undertake tasks and respond to queries, that would typically happen in a community pharmacy. Other final year students and session tutors, act as prescribers, patient’s and customers as part of the simulation. Students have an opportunity to reflect on their personal ability to lead a team and to work as part of an effective team. Through the design of the session students also have the opportunity to consolidate their pharmacy practice knowledge from their whole degree course, explore their ability to apply that knowledge with the required skills and behaviours and receive personalised feedback from peers and tutors. This level of feedback on student’s preparedness to carry out real world activities is timely as they will be graduating and starting their foundation training year working full time in patient facing practice environments within months of these sessions.

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