Pilot project to identify pharmacology core concepts in
Australasia
Beginning in 2019, pharmacology educators based in Australia and New
Zealand engaged in research that identified 20 core concepts of
pharmacology education (White et al., 2021). This group, including some
authors of the present article, initially surveyed 41 Australasian
educators, of whom 23 engaged in follow-up workshop activities.
Subsequently, an expert group of 12 academics extracted a set of core
concepts, which were then refined and confirmed by a survey of an
additional 30 academics. The resulting core concepts were then defined
and unpacked (Santiago et al., 2021). This project provided
proof-of-concept that core concepts could be identified in pharmacology,
suggesting that such an approach might work at a broader international
level. Building on the experience and findings of this Australasian
approach, the authors were confident a more international approach would
have the potential to be impactful at global scale.