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. 2008 Jun 15;72(3):68.
doi: 10.5688/aj720368.

Impact of the Career Explorers program on high school students' perceptions of the pharmacy profession

Sarah M Langridge  1 , Sheri L Stensland, Terri L Warholak, Lisa Mattingly
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Impact of the Career Explorers program on high school students' perceptions of the pharmacy profession

Sarah M Langridge et al. Am J Pharm Educ. .

Abstract

Objective: To determine the effect of a 5-week Career Explorers Program (CEP) on high school students' perceptions of pharmacists' characteristics, duties, and training.

Methods: A 16-item survey instrument with attitudinal, frequency, and relative quantity response options was completed by all CEP students on the first and last day of the program. The survey assessed students' attitudes concerning pharmacist characteristics, duties, and training.

Results: All students who participated in the CEP in 2003 completed the survey instrument (n = 50). Seventy percent of respondents' answers to the attitudinal subscale questions significantly changed from preassessment to postassessment.

Conclusion: A 5-week CEP provided high school students with more realistic perceptions of pharmacists' roles, duties, and training before the students entered the pharmacy program.

Keywords: career choice; experiential learning; high school students; pharmacists.

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Attitude scale expected score map and student normative distributions pharmacists are/have … (N = 50 students)
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Frequency scale expected score map and student normative distributions pharmacists… (N = 50 students)
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