Practicing pharmacists' patient counseling skills in the context of reflectivity

Pharmacy Education

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-26

  Kansanaho, Heli ^a   Cordina, Maria ^b   Puumalainen, Inka ^c   Airaksinen, Marja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Counseling; Finland; Pharmacists; Reflectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FINLAND; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 19044372368     PISSN: 15602214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15602210500075077     Document Type: Article

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