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Scottish pharmacists’ views and attitudes towards Continuing Professional Development Ailsa Power , B Julienne Johnson, H Lesley Diack, Susan McKellar, Derek Stewart, Steve A Hudson

Aim: 

Aim To investigate Scottish pharmacists’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activity, views and attitudes by postal questionnaire in order to identify the need for CPD support and provide a baseline before implementation of a new Scottish community pharmacist contract and introduction of mandatory CPD

Objectives: 

Objectives To survey Scottish pharmacists’ CPD activity To identify Scottish pharmacists’ views on CPD To identify Scottish pharmacists’ attitudes to CPD

Subjects and setting: 

Subjects and setting Random sample of RPSGB registered Scottish pharmacists

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Methods Ethics approval Systematic literature review Questionnaire design Postal Pilot (n=220) Postal survey (n=2420) Data analysis using SPSS Statistical analysis Student’s t-test, Mann Whitney test, Cronbach’s Alpha test

Results: 

Results Response rate: 22.4% (n=543) Mean (SD) age: 42 (12) years Median (IQR) years on RPSGB register: 19 (10,28) (range 1-54) Females: 68% Working part time: 34% Employment sectors:

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Time spent on CPD Median: 40 hours/year IQR: 22,50 hours/year range: 0-720 [1920]* 0 hours/year: 9.8% (53 respondents ) * outlier: ‘all professional work was CPD’

Time spent on CPD(mean hours/year): 

Time spent on CPD (mean hours/year) Primary Care pharmacists 68 hours Hospital pharmacists 66 hours Community pharmacists 45 hours (p<0.05) No differences between genders

Current uptake of CPD activities(n=543): 

Current uptake of CPD activities (n=543) CPD Activity % CPD time spent on activity Median % (IQR) Range NHS Education for Scotland (NES) conferences 10 (0, 20) 0-90 RPSGB branch meetings 0 (0, 4) 0-90 In-service meetings 0 (0, 10) 0-60 Distance learning courses 10 (10, 25) 0-100 Directed reading in the workplace 10 (10, 20) 0-100 Learning from colleagues e.g. mentoring, shadowing, discussion 10 (10, 15) 0-100 Personal study/undirected reading 15 (15, 25) 0-100 Teaching or enquiry 5 (5, 10) 0-80 Online courses 0 (0, 0) 0-70

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Views of pharmacists on factors affecting motivation towards CPD 6 point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree: 6= strongly agree) % median (IQR)

Motivation towards CPDmedian score (out of total score of 60): 

Motivation towards CPD median score (out of total score of 60) Primary Care pharmacists (n=51) 39.0 Hospital pharmacists (n=105) 36.0 Community pharmacists (n=301) 35.4 (p<0.05) No differences between genders

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Attitudes of pharmacists to CPD cycle Identification I feel confident in my ability to identify my own learning needs 5(4,5) I need some help in the process of identifying my learning needs 4*(3,5) Planning I am fully aware of the range of resources available to me to address my CPD requirements 4(3,5) I am not confident about my ability to access resources to address my CPD 4*(3,5) Implementation I have support in my workplace to carry out my CPD plans 2(1,4) I do not have adequate access to suitable CPD resources 4*(3,5) Evaluation I feel confident in my ability to assess what I have learned 4(3,5) I feel confident in my ability to assess what additional CPD activity may be necessary 4(3,5) I feel confident in my ability to assess the benefit to my practice 4(3,5) Cronbach’s Alpha=0.83

Attitudes towards CPD median score (out of total score of 54): 

Attitudes towards CPD median score (out of total score of 54) Primary Care pharmacists (n=52) 38.4 Hospital pharmacists (n=104) 36.2 (p<0.05) Community pharmacists (n=304) 34.5 (p<0.05) No differences between genders

Conclusions: 

Conclusions Pharmacists still not participating in CPD Primary Care pharmacists most motivated and scored highest in attitude score (their confidence, ability and support to participate in CPD) Community pharmacists require most support to increase motivation, confidence and ability to participate