Exploring the problems and coping strategies of pharmacy internship in large general hospitals in China: from the perspective of preceptors.

The role of the Hospital Pharmacy Preceptor (HPP) is pivotal in upholding the excellence of experiential training and fostering the professional growth of pharmacy interns. However, there is a lack of studies that provide an overview of pharmacy internships from the perspective of HPP. This study explores the experience and expectations of HPPs regarding existing problems and possible coping strategies in intern teaching. This is a qualitative study that was conducted through individual interviews and focus group discussions. HPPs were invited as participants from large-scale tertiary hospitals in representative provinces of mainland China. Interview and focus group discussion data were analyzed using thematic analysis to see emerging themes from the data. Nvivo 12 was utilized for data management and processing. Eight individual interviews and two focus group discussions were conducted, involving 14 HPPs as participants. Upon the examination of the interviews and focus group data, four themes were summarized regarding HPPs' perceptions: 1) current presenting problems; 2) possible coping strategies; 3) something HPPs should do; 4) something interns should do. This study found that from the HPPs' perspective, the hospital-based pharmacy internship still has some problems from policy to practice, which need to be addressed by the joint efforts of the state, schools, internship bases, pharmacy preceptors, and students. © 2024. The Author(s).

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Xiaojing Lu, Wan Zhang, Xuedong Jia, Xiaoyue Bao, Xiaojian Zhang, Jian Kang, Shuzhang Du, Zhao Yin. Exploring the problems and coping strategies of pharmacy internship in large general hospitals in China: from the perspective of preceptors. BMC medical education. 2024 Jan 17;24(1):69

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