Publications by authors named "K M Wilbur"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to understand both patients' and pharmacy learners' views on the feedback patients can provide regarding learner skills.
- Through interviews with ten patients and ten pharmacy learners at a pharmacist-led clinic, it was found that patients were eager to give feedback, focusing on humanistic skills like rapport and listening, while learners valued feedback on their intrinsic knowledge and skills.
- The researchers suggest including patient perspectives in pharmacy education curricula and developing tools to facilitate meaningful patient feedback for better learner assessment.
Background: In February 2022, a novel antiviral for the treatment of COVID-19, nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid), was approved by Health Canada and made available to patients in British Columbia (BC). BC community pharmacists did not prescribe nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, but dispensing involved a detailed assessment with close attention to drug-drug interactions and patient monitoring. As the nirmatrelvir/ritonavir service was unique in BC, and not all pharmacists participated in the program, it is important to evaluate the perspectives of all the pharmacists who were affected so that lessons learned from the program can inform future pandemic planning and government initiatives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent advances in nonparametric contrast sensitivity function (CSF) estimation have yielded a new tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency not available to classical parametric estimators. An additional advantage of this new framework is the ability to independently tune multiple aspects of the estimator to seek further improvements. Machine learning CSF estimation with Gaussian processes allows for design optimization in the kernel, acquisition function, and underlying task representation, to name a few.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: An often-hidden element in healthcare students' education is the pedagogy of public involvement, yet public participation can result in deep learning for students with positive impacts on the public who participate.
Objective: This article aimed to synthesize published literature reviews that described the impact of public participation in healthcare students' education.
Search Strategy: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, ERIC, PsychINFO, CINAHL, PubMed, JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects and the PROSPERO register for literature reviews on public participation in healthcare students' education.
Background: Systematic ways to teach health advocacy, an educational outcome for pharmacy graduates, is lacking. We developed a workshop to facilitate understanding and application of a novel structured framework for health advocacy and explored how pharmacy students enacted opportunities for health advocacy during subsequent outpatient experiential training.
Educational Activity And Setting: A two-hour workshop was introduced for year 2 students in 2019.