Overview of a multi-step, international approach to identify the
most important concepts within a discipline
In late 2021, an international group of pharmacology education leaders
committed to identifying the core concepts of pharmacology education,
and to developing resources to help educators around the world teach and
assess those concepts. That initiative, described in detail below, set
out to answer the following research questions.
- Which ideas do pharmacology educators across many countries believe to
be the core concepts of our discipline?
- What are the most common conceptual terms used in pharmacology texts?
- Which of the most common terms from pharmacology texts do educators
believe to be core concepts?
- To what extent do lists of potential core concepts derived from
surveying educators agree with those produced via text mining?