@article{3200734,
    title = "Does the Subject Content of the Pharmacy Degree Course Influence the Community Pharmacist’s Views on Competencies for Practice?",
    author = "Atkinson, Jeffrey and De Paepe, Kristien and Pozo, Antonio Sánchez and Rekkas, Dimitrios and Volmer, Daisy and Hirvonen, Jouni and Bozic, Borut and Skowron, Agnieska and Mircioiu, Constantin and Marcincal, Annie and Koster, Andries and Wilson, Keith and van Schravendijk, Chris and Wilkinson, Jamie",
    journal = "Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)",
    year = "2015",
    volume = "3",
    number = "3",
    pages = "137--153",
    doi = "10.3390/pharmacy3030137",
    keywords = "education, practice, pharmacy, competence, community",
    abstract = "Do community pharmacists coming from different educational backgrounds rank the importance of competences for practice differently-or is the way in which they see  their profession more influenced by practice than university education? A survey was  carried out on 68 competences for pharmacy practice in seven countries with  different pharmacy education systems in terms of the relative importance of the  subject areas chemical and medicinal sciences. Community pharmacists were asked to  rank the competences in terms of relative importance for practice; competences were  divided into personal and patient-care competences. The ranking was very similar in  the seven countries suggesting that evaluation of competences for practice is based  more on professional experience than on prior university education. There were some  differences for instance in research-related competences and these may be  influenced, by education."
}