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      Course experiences, satisfaction and career intent of final year pre-registration Australian pharmacy students Translated title: Experiencias del curso, satisfacción e intenciones de carrera de los estudiantes del ultimo año pre-registro de farmacia

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          Background: In Australia, the profession of pharmacy has undergone many changes to adapt to the needs of the community. In recent years, concerns have been raised with evidence emerging of workforce saturation in traditional pharmacy practice sectors. It is not known how current final year pharmacy students´ perceive the different pharmacy career paths in this changing environment. Hence investigating students´ current experiences with their pharmacy course, interaction with the profession and developing an understanding of their career intentions would be an important step, as these students would make up a large proportion of future pharmacy workforce Objective: The objective of this study was thus to investigate final year students´ career perspectives and the reasons for choosing pharmacy, satisfaction with this choice of pharmacy as a tertiary course and a possible future career, factors affecting satisfaction and intention of future career paths. Methods: A quantitative cross sectional survey of final year students from 3 Australian universities followed by a qualitative semi-structured interview of a convenience sample of final year students from the University of Sydney. Results: "Interest in health and medicine" was the most important reason for choosing pharmacy (n=238). The majority of students were "somewhat satisfied" with the choice of pharmacy (35.7%) as a course and possible future career. Positive associations were found between satisfaction and reasons for joining pharmacy such as "felt pharmacy is a good profession" (p=0.003) while negative associations included "joined pharmacy as a gateway to medicine or dentistry" (p=0.001). Quantitate and qualitative results showed the most frequent perception of community pharmacy was "changing" while hospital and pharmaceutical industry was described as "competitive" and "research" respectively. The highest career intention was community followed by hospital pharmacy. Conclusion: Complex factors including university experiences are involved in shaping students´ satisfaction and perception of career. This may relate to challenges in the community pharmacy sector, job opportunities in hospital and limited understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. The results offer insight for the profession in terms of entry into various roles and also to pharmacy educators for their roles in shaping curricula and placement experiences that attract future graduates to defined career pathways in pharmacy.

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          Antecedentes: En Australia, la profesión de farmacia ha sufrido muchos cambios para adaptarse a las necesidades de la comunidad. En los últimos años han aparecido preocupaciones sobre la evidencia que se va produciendo de la saturación de mano de obra en los sectores tradicionales del ejercicio de la farmacia. No se sabe cómo perciben los actuales estudiantes del último año de farmacia las diferentes salidas profesionales en este entorno cambiante. Por ello, sería importante investigar las experiencias de los estudiantes con su curso, la interacción con la profesión y sería un paso importante evolucionar en la comprensión de sus intenciones de carrera, ya que estos estudiantes constituyen una gran proporción de la futura fuerza laboral de farmacia. Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio fue, por tanto, investigar en los estudiantes del último año, las perspectivas de carrera y las razones para la selección de farmacia, la satisfacción con su selección de farmacia como un curso terciario y la posible futura carrera profesional, los factores que afectan a la satisfacción y la intención de futuras salidas profesionales. Métodos: Encuesta transversal cuantitativa a los estudiantes del último año de 3 Universidades australianas, seguida de entrevistas cualitativas semi-estructuradas a una muestra de conveniencia a estudiantes del último año de la Universidad de Sydney. Resultados: El "interés en la salud y la medicina" fue la razón más importante para elegir farmacia (n=238). La mayoría de los estudiantes estaban "algo satisfechos" con la elección de farmacia (35,7%) como curso y posible ejercicio profesional. Se encontraron asociaciones positivas entre la satisfacción y razones para inscribirse en farmacia, tales como "sentir que farmacia es una buena profesión" (p=0,003), mientras que las asociaciones negativas incluían "inscribirse en farmacia como paso para medicina u odontología" (p=0,001). Los resultados cualitativos y cuantitativos mostraron que las percepciones más frecuentes sobre los farmacéuticos comunitarios era "cambiante", mientras que los farmacéuticos hospitalarios y la industria eran descritos como "competitivos" e "investigación", respectivamente. La intención de salida profesional más frecuente era la farmacia comunitaria, seguida de la hospitalaria. Conclusión: Factores complejos, que incluyen las experiencias universitarias, están involucrados en la conformación de la satisfacción y percepción de las salidas en los estudiantes. Estos pueden estar relacionados con retos en el sector de farmacia comunitaria, oportunidades de trabajo en hospital y entendimiento limitado de la industria farmacéutica. Los resultados ofrecen una aproximación para la profesión en términos de aparición de los varios papeles y también a los educadores por su papel en la conformación de currículos y selección de lugares de prácticas que atraigan a los futuros graduados a definir su carrera profesional en farmacia.

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                Journal
                pharmacin
                Pharmacy Practice (Internet)
                Pharmacy Practice (Internet)
                Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmacéuticas (Redondela )
                1886-3655
                June 2014
                : 12
                : 2
                : 0
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                [1 ] Univesity of Sydney Australia
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                S1886-36552014000200004
                28632c30-60e2-4e05-aad5-20fca6140f84

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

                Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical medicine
                Students,Pharmacy,Career Choice,Personal Satisfaction,Pharmacists,Pharmaceutical Services,Australia,Estudiantes de Farmacia,Selección de Profesión,Satisfacción Personal,Farmacéuticos,Servicios Farmacéuticos

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