Recipients
Sherilyn Houle, School of Pharmacy
Heidi Fernandes, School of Pharmacy
Cynthia Richard, School of Pharmacy
Kaitlin Bynkoski, School of Pharmacy
Becky Ewan, School of Pharmacy
Description
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of a newly developed wellness check-in activity with third-year students at the School of Pharmacy. Recognizing the program’s demanding curriculum and the impact that our own wellness has on our ability to learn and provide care to patients as a pharmacist, an activity to educate students on recognizing and addressing burnout was initiated in Winter 2020. In this activity, students learn about wellness and burnout and meet individually with a pharmacy faculty member to discuss wellness considerations across various aspects of one’s life. The proposed project aims to evaluate - using telephone interviews with participants - whether students take away key learning objectives and make significant changes in their self-care practices following this activity. To our knowledge, this represents the first initiative to be employed by a pharmacy school in Canada to develop and examine the impacts of a wellness check-in among pharmacy students.
References
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