Comparative evaluation of a clinical pharmacy case presentation workshop: Online vs. face-to-face

Service or Program: Following current COVID-19 restrictions on F2F meetings, a one-day case presentation workshop for Germanspeaking pharmacists that had previously been offered several times F2F was re-designed as online event The workshop is part of a programme provided by 'Campus Pharmazie', a privately owned institution that offers postgraduate education in Clinical Pharmacy Participants perform a medication analysis and present and discuss this case at the workshop Additionally, the tutor provides input and guides a reflection process on clinical reasoning The objective of this programme is to improve medication review skills Justification/Documentation: In April 2020 six pharmacists attended this workshop online since F2F meetings were banned Of these, five had previously attended the F2F workshop In the anonymous comparative evaluation 83% confirmed the high professional value and practice-changing potential of the workshop in either format Although 8 hours is considered a 'long' duration for online events, satisfaction was not significantly different with either format (all P-values between 07 and 37) For example, participants stated how strongly they would recommend the workshop with 8 8 (F2F) versus 8 3 (online), resp , out of a maximum of 10 points While three participants indicated being slightly more hesitant about active participation online (1 point on a 5-point Likert scale each), the majority indicated that their personal learning success was the same, online and F2F Adaptability: Although this is a small-sized pilot study, the conformity of participant satisfaction and perceived learning success in F2F and online workshops indicates that one-day case discussion workshops may achieve equal objectives with either format Significance: The high value and practice-changing character of the event acknowledged by the participants indicates that the workshops met their objectives Our results show that active and collaborative case-based online learning in clinical pharmacy is feasible This may facilitate access of pharmacists to skill-based postgraduate clinical training