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We kindly thank everyone who submitted their feedback on the usability and practicability of proposed new tools for intern pharmacist assessment and feedback.
We will now pilot the tools in hospital and community pharmacies in the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia between August and October 2021.
If you would like more information please contact us at projects@pharmacycouncil.org.au or call us on 02 6188 4288 between 9am and 5pm AEST.
Over the last three years we have been working closely with the Pharmacy Board of Australia (PharmBA) to improve the supervised practice period, also known as the pharmacist internship year.
Our shared vision is to improve preceptor and intern experiences by providing a range of tools that can be used for assessment and feedback.
Preceptors and supervising pharmacists are expected to ‘assess and provide feedback on the knowledge, skills and performance of the intern so that experiences can be built upon and difficulties identified and remediated’ (PharmBA 2021).
Early this year, we published a revised Intern Year Assessment Blueprint. The blueprint suggests a number of methods that can be used depending on the purpose and context of assessment.
Guided by a team of experts from Australia and New Zealand, we have now developed an initial suite of tools and accompanying guidance. The proposed tools have been designed to address more than one performance outcome particularly when several outcomes can be demonstrated simultaneously in one context.
The initial suite of tools comprises assessments from the Intern Year Assessment Blueprint, including:
We have developed a total of 6 tools across the 3 assessments, of which we have received great feedback on.