Virtual site visits - an emerging option for experiential quality assurance.

Background And Purpose: Site visits are a valuable tool for experiential quality assurance. There is sparse literature regarding the use of a virtual modality for completion of site visits. This manuscript describes the experience of using of onsite and virtual site visits, including benefits and limitations of each approach, by two pharmacy experiential programs.

Pharmacy students' application of knowledge from the classroom to introductory pharmacy practice experiences.

Objective: To determine whether and how pharmacy students used knowledge learned in the classroom during their introductory pharmacy practice experiences (IPPEs) in community and hospital settings.

Design: To reinforce course concepts and make connections between coursework and practice, students documented examples of how knowledge from first-year courses was used in IPPEs.

Assessment: Data submitted were categorized by classroom-based pharmacy course, including the frequency with which each course was cited.

Patient perspective of medication information desired and barriers to asking pharmacists questions.

Objectives: To identify information patients want from a community pharmacist with new and refill prescription dispensing, examine how this varies across certain patient characteristics, and identify perceived barriers to asking pharmacists' questions.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Six states (Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Montana, and Arizona), from January 2006 to August 2008.