The pharmacy game
October 30, 2013
Monash University’s Faculty
of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences Senior Lecturer, Dr David
Manallack, and Senior Education
Project Coordinator, Jenny
McDowell, have developed a board
game-like mapping activity for first
year Bachelor of Pharmacy students
to enhance their understanding of
the need for enabling sciences in
the curriculum.
Previous reviews of the course
had indicated that first year
students “lacked early identification
with the pharmacy profession and
struggled to understand the need
for enabling sciences and the depth
of expertise required to practise”.
The new mapping activity is
said to strengthen links between
pharmacy education and
professional capabilities, with 36
purpose-designed subject cards
placed onto a poster depicting the
course map, based on consultations
with students about their
perceptions of pharmacy practice.
“Some aspects of professional
pharmacy roles seem onedimensional
to the uninitiated,
but there are complex cognitive
processes involved which
combine a wealth of different
understandings from the wide
range of subjects studied in the
course,” the creators said.
First year students said the
activity had helped them gain
better understanding of the
curriculum and the profession.
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