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Table 4 Theme 3

From: Learning on the run – a qualitative, longitudinal study of pharmacy educators’ experiences implementing a hospital pharmacy residency program

Theme 3. You can’t fake it, but you can still make it – need for motivation and engagement

Subthemes

Example of quotes from transcripts

3.1 Motivation of the residents

We have to deliver the programs (residency) but I think it’s more the residents. You can feel - I have seen the growth of the residents that have really taken it and run with it, whereas the ones that haven’t, they still just - it’s just like a general kind of thing and I just feel like the ones that have embraced it grow. And it’s good to see because you can reflect and see how they grow. E3, FG1

… obviously it depends on their motivation. So it’s not to say that for everyone who goes through the residency program, the outcome will be the same, because it’s the intrinsic factors which play a big part as well. But the structure definitely helps. E12, FG4

3.2 Alignment of expectations

… we have a sit-down at the start and sort of outline what the expectations are. And what we’ve learned over the time is they do have to be engaged with it, and commit to the requirements, otherwise it’s just a hard slog for everybody, and you really don’t achieve what you’re setting out to achieve. So we outline it that way... E2, FG3

We put that (responsibility) back onto the resident, and we’ve had to clarify, make the expectations much clearer, because that was an issue at the start, and just people doing different things across the sites... So it’s trying to sort of marry up those expectations. E12, FG4