Gender and Minority Considerations in Pharmacy School Student Wellbeing/Response

Keywords: gender, minority, wellbeing, pharmacy student The recent article by Babal and colleagues explored first year Doctor of Pharmacy students' viewpoints on individual, educational system, and health care system factors that affected their wellbeing.1 Workload, learning environment, meanin...

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Published in:American journal of pharmaceutical education 2020-11, Vol.84 (10), p.1385-1387
Main Authors: Randle, Katrina W, McCarthy, Bryan C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Culture
Drug stores
Educational Environment
Ethnicity
Gender
Influence
Learning
Medical education
Minority & ethnic groups
Pharmaceutical Education
Pharmacists
Pharmacy
Public health
Race
Racism
School environment
Sexism
Social psychology
Stress
Student Experience
University students
Womens health
Workloads
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Summary:Keywords: gender, minority, wellbeing, pharmacy student The recent article by Babal and colleagues explored first year Doctor of Pharmacy students' viewpoints on individual, educational system, and health care system factors that affected their wellbeing.1 Workload, learning environment, meaningful pharmacy school experiences, relationships, and personal factors were five themes identified in the students' reflective essays. With regard to racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural identity, three students described challenges related to immigrant status (living far from family, English as their second language, culture shock), and one student described worries that the local Hmong community was smaller than that in his hometown. [...]the prompt did not explicitly list identity (gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, disability) as a possibility, which we now recognize was an important limitation in our study design. Addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to wellbeing work within health professions education. [...]we understand and respond to the perspectives of those who face the greatest inequities within the pharmacy learning community, we will not be able to achieve a true culture of wellbeing for our students.
ISSN:0002-9459
1553-6467