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December 9, 2025Clinics and PracticeOpen Access

Teaching Prescribing in the PharmD Curriculum: A Qualitative Analysis

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RBRachel E. BarenieDSDevin ScottDADavid R. Axon

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Overview

Qualitative analysis reveals scope of practice and didactic education key for student pharmacists’ prescribing preparedness.

Key Points

  • Characterize student pharmacists’ beliefs about education on prescribing in the US PharmD program.
  • Conducted focus group discussions with PharmD students at two universities in the US.
  • Guided data collection using Self-Determination Theory over three months.
  • Performed thematic analysis with inductive and deductive coding.
  • Twenty-two student pharmacists participated in three focus group discussions.
  • Identified major themes: importance of didactic education in prescribing and enhanced student preparedness through experiential training.
  • Reveal a belief in the need for comprehensive prescribing education in the PharmD curriculum.

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Barenie et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69401d622d562116f28f8e86https://doi.org/10.3390/clinpract15120232
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