System of interdisciplinary teaching tasks to form dialogic communication skills in Pharmaceutical Education

Abstract

Communication has been identified as a transversal competence of the primary care pharmacist. Therefore, it is necessary to establish interdisciplinary relationships with Biomedical Sciences in the teaching-learning process for the comprehensive training of this professional. The purpose is to design a system of dialogical teaching tasks with an interdisciplinary approach, to train communication skills in students of the Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. It materializes in the subjects Communication and Health Education, of the disciplines Pharmaceutical Services and Human Physiology of Biomedical Sciences. For the practical application of the system in the third year of the degree, a pre-experiment was carried out in the pre-test-post-test modality, through an intentional non-probabilistic sampling. The main results establish that the methodology followed to form dialogic communication skills, from interdisciplinarity, evidences the transformation of students, with methodological procedures described and feasible to apply, both in the teaching of Pharmaceutical Sciences and in other university contexts.