Evaluating the Effectiveness of Videos for Teaching Pharmaceutical Calculations to Pharmacy Students.

Performing pharmaceutical calculations accurately is a fundamental aspect of the pharmacy profession, ensuring treatment efficacy and patient safety. Incorporating videos in teaching can enhance visualisation and reinforce learning. The current study utilised videos to teach calculations and assessed how these affected students' performance.

An Observational Cohort Study to Evaluate the Impact of a Tailored Medicines Optimisation Service on Medication Use, Accident and Emergency Department Visits, and Admissions Among Patients Identified with Medication Support Needs in Secondary Care.

Purpose: Quantifying the impact of pharmacy interventions, such as tailored medicines optimisation, can be challenging owing to the sometimes-indirect nature of their effect on patient outcomes such A&E (Accident & Emergency) attendance, hospital admission and length of stay. This study aimed to assess the impact of the, Lewisham Integrated Medicines Optimisation Service (LIMOS) on medicines self-management, A&E attendances and hospital admissions.

Patients And Methods: The study was conducted as a retrospective and prospective observational evaluation of patients referred to LIMOS at University Hospital Lewisham between April and September 2016.

Development and evaluation of a serious game to support learning among pharmacy and nursing students.

Background And Purpose: Serious games (SGs) are a digital method that promotes learning through playability. DOSE is a SG that aims to improve the use and navigation of the British National Formulary, a standard medicines reference source. This research aimed to design and examine the playability and perceptions of DOSE within healthcare curricula.

Development and evaluation of an educational game to support pharmacy students.

Introduction: United Kingdom pharmacy students need to efficiently navigate the British National Formulary (BNF), a standard medicines reference source. "Pharmacy Challenge" is a web-based prototype game based on the BNF. This research aimed to evaluate the game in terms of design, content, and impact on students' performance and confidence.

Can community pharmacy successfully bridge the gap in care for housebound patients?

Background: There are an increasing number of older housebound patients who are not seen by the pharmacists responsible for the provision of their medications. This growing population is increasingly dependent on time-limited carers for their medication support.

Objectives: To evaluate the findings of pharmacist led holistic domiciliary medicine use reviews (dMUR) targeted at this group of housebound patients, in terms of required medication support and the identification of unmet social care needs.

Simulation in pharmacy education to enhance interprofessional education.

Objective: Increased demands from healthcare services have led to new roles for healthcare professionals (HCPs). Simulation based learning (SBL) can offer multidisciplinary HCPs and students a format to train for such emerging roles. The aim of this work was to adapt existing nursing SBL to involve pharmacy students and evaluate perceptions and effectiveness of SBL when used for interprofessional education (IPE).