Development of a User-Populated Database to Allow Pharmacy Students to Create and Share Case Studies

Master of Pharmacy students at UWA complete their postgraduate degree in 6 trimesters over 2 years and then work as intern pharmacists in community or hospital environments. In this intensive degree, students are required to demonstrate an ability to apply their knowledge about health and medicines to optimise the quality of life of patients. To be able to identify complex drug-related problems, pharmacy students need a lot of exposure and practice with real-life cases.

The Case Studies in Pharmacy project aims to develop a user-populated database (with a web-based user interface) that will allow pharmacy students (users) to create, practice, share, and comment on real-life case studies. The cases that users create will need to offer multiple choice answers, as well as an answer page with detailed feedback. Ideally, the user interface will provide flash cards of each case, with the answers/feedback on the other side . Each case would ideally be tagged (by the user) according to a standard list of tags (ie topic areas) to allow for revision/practice of specific topic areas, as well as randomisation of cases across topic areas. Additionally, user activity should be able to be anonymously tracked to allow data collection (for research purposes) and future quality improvements to the pharmacy curriculum.

The information in the app will need to be able to be updated to maintain relevance to current practice; CITS3200 students will NOT be required to do this updating, but the user interface needs to permit users to update the information.

Successful completion of the project will result in the incorporation of the application into the Master of Pharmacy curriculum from 2019.

Client


Contact: Dr Kenneth Lee
Phone: 6488 2444
Email: [email protected]
Preferred contact: Email
Location: Curnow Building, UWA

IP Exploitation Model


The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: Creative Commons ( open source ) http://creativecommons.org.au/


Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 23 July 2019
Modified By: Michael Wise 		UWA