Impacts of a simulation-based vaccination training course on master’s degree students in pharmacy

We implement a simulation-based vaccination training course for master's degree students in pharmacy. After that, we carried out a quantitative study to study the impacts of this vaccination training course on 88 master's degree students in pharmacy. Validated questionnaires were used and aimed to analyze the evolution of the students' perception in 3 areas: the satisfaction with the training (1), the interest of this simulation-based training in a public health setting, in the pharmacy curriculum and in relation to theoretical courses (2) and the self-confidence in addressing a patient vaccine hesitancy at the counter, in preparing and injecting a vaccine as well as in managing adverse events that may occur following a vaccination (3). In addition, the vaccination skills acquired during this training were evaluate with procedural checklists. The data were collected before and right after the vaccination training course and then 3 months later during a second simulation training.