Students completed an online survey via the course management website before and after the activity that assessed student knowledge of concepts that comprise the proportion of days covered (PDC) metric and three items on self-reported knowledge, comfort, and confidence. The active learning session had students manually calculate the proportion of days covered and medication possession ratios for two refill histories and examine the output of one simulated adherence dashboard. A 50-min didactic session was followed by an active learning session on medication adherence metrics, focused on the community pharmacy setting. This activity was used within a didactic course on endocrine therapeutics for second-year student pharmacists at a public pharmacy college. While these approaches have value, activities are needed in other aspects of medication adherence. Teaching students about nonadherence usually takes the form of lectures and simulated pill taking exercises. Medication adherence is perhaps the most prominent quality measure applied to pharmacies. The authors wish to acknowledge Marc Sturgill, PharmD, for his assistance with statistical analysis.
Overall, residents did not prefer either poster format and did not find any differences except in terms of the missing information. While both groups agreed that clarity and comprehensibility were similar regardless of format, residents felt more information was missing from the infographic poster. Overall, despite the limitations of this present study, the preferences and perceptions between residents and preceptors were similar between traditional and infographic poster formats. To assess comprehension, survey questions could assess content understanding rather than participant's opinion of their own comprehension. A larger sample size and improved geographic diversity of participants would allow for greater generalizability of results. The study should be conducted at a national meeting or at multiple regional meetings in order to capture a more well distributed sample size. To repeat this study, several study design changes need to occur. The small sample size and Recommendations First, a small sample size of participants at a regional pharmacy conference where there is inherent interest in scholarship and dissemination of scholarly work was evaluated more responses came from post-doctoral resident participants than preceptors or other pharmacy practitioners. While this is an interesting and pertinent research question, the impact of this study is limited by multiple confounding factors that influence the generalizability of the outcomes. Importantly, scientific poster content and Impact Dissemination of research in this format serves a multitude of purposes, from garnering regional to international attention for a specific topic or case to allowing researchers and clinicians to network and discuss pertinent discoveries or best practices. Pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners routinely present findings from their clinical practice as scientific posters at various local, regional, national, and international conferences.