Professional learning of pharmaceutical care in a virtual world
Abstract The learning of professional skills at University suffers from the drawback of how to reproduce a context similar to reality that with allow students to perform the tasks set them in a “living” way. Here we trained 54 students following the subject entitled Pharmaceutical Care of the Pharmacy degree in Second Life (an immersive virtual world in 3D), simulating common situations in the dispensation of anti-asthmatic agents in the context of a Community Pharmacy. The results of the study indicated that the students had no difficulty in adapting to the virtual platform and they reported a high degree of satisfaction (the mean score obtained was 2.36 on a scale of 0-3). The assessment of professional competencies revealed the high global performance of the group. The activity was hard for the professors, but they considered it an enrichening experience able to open new possibilities in teaching and research.
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Martín Suárez, A., Sánchez Vicente, D., Martín Izard, J. F., & Clavijo Cobaleda, E. (2011). Professional learning of pharmaceutical care in a virtual world. Education in The Knowledge Society, 12(4), 71–87. https://doi.org/10.14201/eks.8527
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