Abstract: This study aimed to
investigate the relationship between pharmacy students' opinions on the
importance of leadership and their levels of interest in pharmaceutical
history. We administered a structured questionnaire to 160 undergraduate
students (response rate of 86.3%) who have taken pharmaceutical history courses
at the Erciyes University Faculty of Pharmacy in the past three years. We
observed that 42.8% of the participants valued leadership as a very important
skill that a pharmacist should possess through his/her professional career, of
which 54.2% were very interested in pharmaceutical history. There is a
statistically significant relationship between participants' opinions on the
importance of leadership and their levels of interest in pharmaceutical
history. Our findings suggest that the participants valuing leadership as a
very important skill are more interested in pharmaceutical history than those
valuing leadership as an unimportant skill. This result indicates that
pharmaceutical history courses can serve as an effective tool for developing
pharmacy students' awareness and attitudes toward professional leadership.
Keywords: history of pharmacy,
pharmaceutical history, Turkey, pharmacy education, leadership
Cite: Elmali, Ferhan., Staiger,
Christiane., Tekiner, Halil. "Can pharmaceutical history courses contribute in
building future pharmacy leaders? A preliminary study from Erciyes University,
Turkey," Die Pharmazie 2015;70(11):753-754.
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