Kari Vavra Janes, Dane Shiltz, Minji Sohn, Margaret de Voest
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Abstract
Objective: To describe the differences in advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) students' clinical interventions, including number of interventions, characterization, and acceptance, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Fourth-year pharmacy students for three faculty preceptors on inpatient internal medicine APPEs at a large, urban community medical center documented clinical interventions in an online database from May 2018 through April 2024. The database captured information pertaining to the APPE block, preceptor, intervention category, intervention description, potential benefits, outcomes, and references. Data was extracted from the database for each APPE block and assigned into the following groupings: pre-COVID-19 (May 2018-March 2020), COVID-19 (May 2020-April 2022), and post-COVID-19 (May 2022-April 2024). Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 clinical interventions were compared to post-COVID-19.
Results: The pre-COVID-19 period included 59 students who documented 1,752 interventions (mean 29.7 per student); the COVID-19 period had 62 students who documented 1,402 interventions (mean 22.6 per student); and the post-COVID-19 period had 60 students who documented 1,266 interventions (mean 21.1 per student). Compared to post-COVID-19, pre-COVID-19 had significantly more interventions per student on average; however, post-COVID-19 and COVID-19 were not significantly different.
Conclusion: Post-COVID-19 intervention numbers have not returned to pre-COVID-19 levels. Further qualitative analysis is warranted to explain this continued downtrend in student interventions.
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