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Table 1 Strengths, weaknesses and suggestions raised by the participants of the Primary Health Care-based pharmaceutical service pilot version course

From: Strengthening the capacity of managers in pharmaceutical services based on Primary Health Care (PHC) at different levels of the health system

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

SUGGESTIONS

• The transversal module allowed having intervention proposals at the end of the course

• The transversal module presented many kinds of problems

• The intervention proposal transversal module must be kept but it should be modified to become better adjusted to the course needs and better connected with the other modules

• The teachers worked on topics of their expertise, which helped to achieve adequate and interesting materials

• Low availability of the professor responsible on the transversal module

• Improve the definition of activities, stating more clearly the objectives and how to develop them

• It achieved the goal of stimulating students by the balance between teaching model and the materials used

• The transversal module did not really integrate with the rest of the course

• Amplify the use of problem-based education techniques

• The strategy of cross-checking materials among the professors was really helpful

• Lack of feedback between professors and tutors

• The use of more adequate tools, focusing on a broader perspective

• The interaction between the coordination and tutors was considered optimal

• No standardized evaluation methods and issues with the criteria applied

• Improve the interaction between professors and tutors

• The academic activities were generally good and deepened the proposed topics

• Low feedback between tutors and students

• Improve the timing of activities and organize a feasible schedule for both tutors and students

• General and academic coordination support

• Low interconnection across the modules

• The course content must be prepared with reasonable antecedence to facilitate the revision

• Information sharing among teachers and tutors

• Lack of time from some tutors to dedicate to the course, lack of expertise in the specific field of PHC

• Avoid the last trimester of the year to apply the course (to avoid holidays and vacations)

• The interaction and shared experience among the mentors

• Activities timing and feedback

• Improve the course layout and organization

• General course guidelines and modules helped the course methodology

• Lack of interaction among the students

• Improve the tracking of activity completion

• The training materials were very up to date and interesting

• Timing of material preparation; the uploaded materials were not uploaded at the appropriate time

• Improve tutor training on the course-specific material and content as well as the web platform

• The module ‘Pharmaceutical Service and its components’ was the most exciting by its use of multiple teaching strategies

• The synchronous session held in the Blackboard live session tool was a difficult to manage because of the participants' different time zones

• Periodic meeting involving coordination and tutors to follow up the modules

• The interaction among the whole team was excellent

• Lack of homogeneity among module structures

• Improve the evaluation tools

  

• Incentivize more participative behavior among the students

  

• Improve follow-up of the students’ performance during the course

  

• Reduce the volume of reading for the module and focus on content integration

  

• Increase professors' participation on their specific module

  1. Rio de Janeiro, 2011.