Survey free-text responses: development and refinement of a list
of terms
Five hundred and ninety individual terms were submitted as core concepts
of pharmacology education by 163 respondents who addressed this survey
question. A term was defined as one or more words that capture a single
idea. Duplicates were removed by two raters (YS and PW), and clusters of
words judged to have equivalent or similar meanings were grouped under
the term that best reflected the central meaning (see Table 3 for an
example). The final list of 48 individual terms is shown in Table 4.
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