Pharmaceutical Sciences

When searching for research literature on pharmacy education, there are 3 main MeSH terms that are useful:

• Education, Pharmacy (with narrower terms for graduate and continuing education, and residencies)
• Students, Pharmacy
• Schools, Pharmacy

In addition to searching with MeSH terms, you'll also want to include keywords for each concept with an OR, eg:

1. Education, Pharmacy/ or Students, Pharmacy/ or Schools, Pharmacy/
2. ((pharmacy or pharmd) adj3 (student* or education* or curricul*)).mp
3. 1 or 2

If you're searching Embase, note that its subject headings - Emtree terms - usually differ from MeSH terms. 

For more tips on database searching, please contact your librarian or see this guide:

Medline and Embase are the best databases to search for pharmacy education topics. Note that a lot of pharmacy education research may only be presented at conferences, rather than in peer-reviewed journals. Embase is a good place to find abstracts of posters and papers presented at conferences. Embase also includes selected preprints, which may be important for emerging research areas such as AI applications in education.

It may be challenging to find research specific to pharmacy students. In those cases, consider expanding your search to include other health professions students (such as medical or nursing students), if applicable to your research question.