Introduction

Faculty collaboration across disciplines plays an important role in pharmacy education, and in particular, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) faculty survey asks whether colleges/schools of pharmacy (C/SOPs) have programs available to orient non-practice faculty to the profession of pharmacy. The purpose of this pilot study was to characterize perceptions of the importance and effectiveness of such programs, and to examine barriers to their successful implementation.

Methods

An online survey was developed to collect demographic information and perceived importance, effectiveness, and barriers of programs designed to orient non-practice faculty to the pharmacy profession. The survey was posted to the AACP Connect Council of Deans and Council of Faculties listservs and responses were gathered and analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Results

Responses from 157 individuals representing 90C/SOPs were collected. While the majority (82%) of respondents rated programs that orient non-practice faculty to the pharmacy profession as extremely or very important, only 17% rated such programs as extremely or very effective. Lack of time was identified as the primary barrier. Differences were identified between various interest groups, including practice vs. non-practice disciplines and administrators vs. non-administrators.

Conclusions

Programs to orient non-practice faculty to the pharmacy profession were perceived to be important; however, such programs were found to lack efficacy.

中文翻译：

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将非执业教师定向到药学专业的计划的看法：一项试点研究

介绍

跨学科的教师合作在药学教育中发挥着重要作用，特别是美国药学院协会 (AACP) 的教师调查询问药学院/学院 (C/SOP) 是否有可用于指导非执业教师的课程药学专业。这项试点研究的目的是描述对此类计划的重要性和有效性的看法，并检查其成功实施的障碍。

方法

开发了一项在线调查来收集人口统计信息以及旨在将非执业教师定向到药学专业的计划的重要性、有效性和障碍。该调查已发布到 AACP Connect 院长理事会和学院理事会列表服务器，并使用描述性统计数据收集和分析了答复。

结果

收集了代表 90C/SOP 的 157 个人的回应。虽然大多数 (82%) 的受访者将非执业教师定位于药学专业的计划评为极其或非常重要，但只有 17% 的受访者将此类计划评为极其或非常有效。缺乏时间被确定为主要障碍。确定了各种利益群体之间的差异，包括实践与非实践学科以及管理人员与非管理人员。

结论

将非执业教师定向到药学专业的计划被认为很重要；然而，发现此类方案缺乏效力。