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Volume 4, Issue 5 (Suppl)

J Pharmacovigil 2016

ISSN:2329-6887 JP, an open access journal

Pharmacovigilance Congress 2016

September 28-30, 2016

September 28-30, 2016 Toronto, Canada

Pharmacovigilance Congress

Majdi Garsan Algarsan, J Pharmacovigil 2016, 4:5 (Suppl)

Audit of the introduction of MyMathlab for first year and second year MPharm students

Majdi Garsan Algarsan

University of Hertfordshire, UK

umeracy skills are needed by both adults and children in their daily activities. Improving numeracy skills in whatever possible

method is important for better performance in every work of life. Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacists need to be very skillful

in numeracy in determining doses or administering medicines. Pharmacy students during training must improve their numeracy.

Numeracy skills are important for the daily practice of pharmacists to be able to determine doses of drugs. There were incidents where

due to error in calculation during the formulation of a medicine that cause the death of some pediatric patients. The peppermint

incident is an example of the important requirement of numeracy skills. Medication errors cost the NHS about 750 million pounds

annually and dosage errors from calculations are part of them which are mainly due to errors in calculations. The aim of the study

was to find out the numeracy skills of MPharm year 1 and year 2 students at University of Hertfordshire and to find out effect

of MyMathLab in improving numeracy skills of this group of students. MPharm student in year 1 and 2 were selected from the

University of Hertfordshire. Research was done in two segments. Exams and questionnaire send to students by email. Students

were given three sets of exam: Induction, Formative and Summative. Exams were marked and analyzed statistically using One-way

ANOVA. The questionnaire was made using a programme called ‘Survey Monkey’. The questionnaire explored their demographics

and what they thought of the numeracy support on their course. Statistical analysis such as the CHI-Square test was applied to the

results from the online questionnaire to find out if the results were significant. Themed analysis was completed on the transcribed

data for student`s feedback from the Questionnaire.

Biography

Majdi Garsan Algarsan is a student in Department of Pharmacy at University of Hertfordshire, UK.