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This educational workshop is a reoccurring opportunity to address best practices, content, assessment methods and research projects from pharmacy internship courses in the Nordic countries, providing a collaboration platform for development. The content components will be described and discussed in terms of development, stimulation and assessment in the different settings. The objective of the workshop is to share experiences from the pharmacy internships and related courses in the Nordic countries. We also want to investigate the opportunity to develop a platform for multicenter pharmacy practice research within the Nordic countries, aiming to improve the internship in each country. A short presentation from the Nordic countries on internship experiences will be the foundation for the discussion between the workshop participants. A possible joint project about supervisors’ skills and competences will be discussed. Prior to the workshop participants are therefore kindly asked to consider how to answer (some of the questions below:

1. Have you introduced any new methods for stimulating learning activities and assessment methods at the pharmacy internship course in your country?

2. What are the three most successful aspects/components of the pharmacy internship run by your university e and what is the most problematic aspect/component)

3. How is the pharmacy internship evaluated in your university (and why so?) e do you have ideas for changing the evaluation? What other courses (elective/obligatory) are run in your university which builds upon the pharmacy internship (might be clinical pharmacy courses, PhD-courses etc) e and which courses do you plan to run?

4. What are the skills, experiences and competencies of the supervisors today e and what are the competencies needed in the future? Our discussions on this issue will take the starting point from a pre-developed questionnaire that the workshop leaders plan to distribute in all the Nordic countries. The learning outcomes for the workshop are the following:

• The participants will learn about pharmacy internships and related courses in the Nordic countries in terms of current and planned learning outcomes and formal and summative evaluation.
• The participants will discuss and potentially develop a platform for a multicenter pharmacy practice research studies within the Nordic countries (on supervisor skills and training)