PhD on a Community pharmacy specialization programme
On the 2nd of April 2025 Marnix Westein successfully defended his PhD thesis “Training and Assessment in Workplace-based Community Pharmacy. Creating Foundations and Nurturing Progress” at Utrecht University. His research focused on the development, validation, and revision of the postgraduate workplace-based community pharmacy education program in the Netherlands. The research addressed two main questions: how to develop, validate, and revise the education program using design approaches from medical education and context-specific research findings, and how trainees and supervisors perceive learning and assessment in the workplace. The result of this research can be found in the international literature and the Utrecht University research portal.