Methods
A two-phase approach was used to identify the core concepts of pharmacology education (Figure 1). We used multiple approaches to ensure coverage of the entire field of pharmacology, and a variety of sources of information to mitigate personal biases. The first, exploratory phase included an empirical approach, specifically data mining of five key textbook introductory sections. In parallel, an online survey of pharmacology educators was used to complement the text mining, and the terms identified using these two methods were merged to develop a list of 74 candidate terms.