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Beyond the official purpose of PS2 introduced earlier (See 4.4), participants considered participation in seminar presentations essential for their education and development for a number of reasons. For many of these students, engaging in

seminar presentations helped them to develop essential academic skills in the College. Salwa described how the course introduced her to basic skills, including

يثحب ةقيرط ،تامولعملل يتفرعم ةقيرط ،يتئارق ةقيرط ،ثحبأ حار انأ فيك ).( انحإ ول لمع ان presentations لضفأ نوكيح اهيف انئادأ نوكي ،ةيناثلا داوملا يف ).( لوقأ ام يلوقت ةفقاو نيحد يتنإ انملعي ناك وه ينعي .لوقأ شإ ةمهاف نوكأ انأ مزلا ،طلغ ةجاح

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علطت مزلا سانلا .كيأر يلوقت حلصيح ام .ةمولعملا لوقت علطتح سانلا اهدعب ،ةمولعم صاخلا كيأر اداه فرعت فيك .كيأر انل يلوق ؟ ةقيقحلا شإ ؟كيأرب ىغبأ شإ انأ بيط .

.ييأر اداه يلوق ؟ كيأر يطحت how I look for information, how I read, how I find out information, the way I search (.) so even if we make presentations in other courses, our performance will be better (.) I don’t say something wrong. I must understand what I am talking about. He taught us that when you are informing people, people will adopt your information. It is not appropriate to tell your opinions to people. You need to point out that this is your personal opinion. What do I want from your personal opinion? What is true? Tell us your opinion. How do you put your opinion? Say this is my opinion.

For Salwa, participating in seminar presentations paved the way to access significant skills, such as searching for information, assessing the quality of her search and recognizing the difference between scientific information and personal opinions.

Engaging in seminar presentations was associated with specific expectations and requirements that presenters needed to recognize and embrace to develop their identity as professionals. The skills that they had access to in this literacy event in seminar presentations were not only confined to representation and communication of scientific knowledge, but also entailed a recognition and appreciation of the need to enhance their accountability as professionals. Engaging in this course sharpened their awareness of the need to assess the quality of their presented information and provide their audience with credible information to establish themselves as trustworthy and accountable professionals. Their responsibilities entailed their ability to differentiate between their positions as individuals entitled to have their personal opinions and their developing statuses as professionals whose ethical responsibilities required them to assess their performance in relation to its impact on the audience.

For other students, the benefits of participating in seminar presentations extended to other studies in the College. Layla, for example, described the significance of this course in terms of its relevance to their future responsibilities beyond this event.

82 اناطعأ وه تتاف يللا ةنسلا لولأا مرتلا يف تتاف يللا ةنسلا ونلأ ؟ هيل ةولح ةدام يه ،تايساسلأا ـلا basics . يف ميدقت ،كجرخت ثحب ميدقت كدنع نوكيح ادك دعب يتنإ ينعي عوبسأ لك ابيرقت كدنع نوكيحزايتملاا ،ةياجلا ةنسلا يف تارمتؤملا case presentations ةجاتحم يتنإف . ، هيف نوكيح ،مهلك ةلدايص ادك يز نوكيح ام سب ينوكت فيك يملعتت مزلاف .اهسفن تلااحلا ىلع نيفرشم ،نيضرمم ،ةرتاكد professional .هيوست يللا يف

This course is good why? Because last year in the first term, he gave us the basics, but you will have to present afterwards your

graduation project, present in conferences and next year, you will have a case presentation in the internship programme almost every week so you need this, but it will not be like this where the others are all pharmacists. There will also be doctors, nurses and

supervisors on patients’ cases, so you need to learn how to be professional in what you do.

Layla valued the course because it introduced her to the basics of giving formal presentations. These basics were needed in other events in which making

presentations was associated with specific requirements and expectations that this course helped them to identify and address. It paved the way to develop a professional image that was important not only to perform in front of their colleagues in this event, but also to work among professionals from other fields in more challenging contexts.

Participating in this event was also significant for participants’ future work in hospitals after graduating. According to Samya,

ـلا presentation يجن امل اهسفن ةفيظولا يف ىتح ،ناكم لك يف هجاتحن انحإ ،انعمسي ردقي انمادق يللا ناشع اهجاتحن .يداه ءايشلأا و عانقلإا تاراهم جاتحن .فظوتن يف تايحلاص انل ريثك ةرم وم ةلدايصلا انحأ ونإ اصوصخ ـلا hospital . رثكأ وه ينعي روتكدلا بيبطلا يش وراص نيحد نكمي نكل ،يلديصلا ةيوش وشمهي ينعي .ادك يللا وه ينعي شإ نيمهاف ةيوش clinical pharmacist ينعي وم ، pharmacist .يداع

we need presentations everywhere, even in the job itself when we work. We need to have persuasive skills and these things. We need these skills so that people can listen to us, especially that as

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doctor, the physician who has authority. They marginalize

pharmacists a bit, but now they understand to some extent what it means to be a clinical pharmacist, not an ordinary pharmacist.

Despite the fact that colleges of pharmacy have been established in Saudi Arabia for some time, many students talked about feeling unappreciated in comparisons to physicians in hospitals. They described how they were often considered as

pharmacists whose role was confined to pharmacies rather than doctors of pharmacy whose academic and professional qualifications allowed them to be directly involved with patients and assume responsibility in patient care in hospitals. Samya drew on her experiences in PS1 and PS2 because she believed they would facilitate her ability to develop persuasive skills that she needed to empower her as a Doctor of Pharmacy and address her future professional responsibilities successfully.

Even for students who were not interested in working in hospitals after graduating, working on their seminar presentations promised a potentially positive impact on their careers. Maram who was planning to work in a pharmaceutical company after graduating found the course to be particularly relevant for her plan.

،انه يفقوت امل سب يتنا .ملكتا ردقأ .يتيصخش يوقت ونأ يش مهأ ،تاكرشلا يف ديفم ةرم .ةدعتسم كنا ةفراع و ةدعتسم يتنا It is very useful in companies. The most important thing is make my personality strong. I can talk. So when you stand here, you are ready and you know you are ready.

The skills and knowledge she had access to allowed Maram to develop as a competent speaker. In addition to learning the basics of making academic presentations, it

developed her ability to trust her preparation and ability to talk and communicate with others. These were essential skills for working in pharmaceutical companies in which she needed to demonstrate her authority and confidence while interacting and working with other employees.

In addition to these academic and professional benefits, presenters considered seminar presentations significant for personal and social reasons. According to Lamar,

84 سحأ انأ .ةيسارد و ةيملع ءايشأ تاراهم يف سب وم ةركف ىلع ىرت كديفي ـلا presentation يرسكت كنإ ).( كدنع نوكي ونإ رثكأ .ةيعامتجلاا كتايح يف رثكأ كديفي .فوخلا يرسكت كنإ كربجي يشلا اد وه .زاتمم ةرم يشلا اد ىرت .فوخلا بناج it is beneficial not only in scientific and educational skills. I think the presentation is more useful in your social life. It allows you to have ).( to break the barrier of fear. You know this is really

important. This is the thing that forces you to break away from fear.

Breaking away from fear of speaking in front of others was a common issue among participants who repeatedly highlighted how managing stress, fear and anxieties associated with public speaking represented a major challenge they needed to address while making their presentations. As this course represented a required component of their year-five studies, its obligatory nature was appreciated by presenters as a way to face their challenges. This was also highlighted by Hind who described how working on this presentation allowed her to address her fear of speaking in front of others.

ينإ عم ،فوخلا نم ةيوش للقي ينعي .روهمجلا هجاوأ ادك ينيلخي يل ةبسنلاب يش مهأ وه فاخأ ةرم )) كحضت (( طسو يف ينوكت امل ريغ ،يتابحاص مادق ملكتأ امل ينعي و .ادك ةحارصلا ةقث كيدي .بعرلا نم يش مهأ ففخي وه .ةيوش بعر سحأ .ادكروهمج اهسفن ةداملا يف انأ يل ةبسنلاب ينعي تنك ام انأ يرايتخا ول ينعي .كراشأ بحأ ام انأ ادك ينوبصغي مزلا سحأ ءايشأ يف ينعي .تكراش تنك ام يرايتخا اهلاخ ول .ةحارص .لالاي و عفدملا طسو يف سحأ ناشع The most important thing for me is that it makes me face the

audience in a way. I mean it decreases a little bit the fear although I get really scared ((laughing)) and so when I present in front of my friends, it is different from being in the middle of an audience like this. I feel it is a bit scary. To be honest, the most important thing is that it decreases this fear. It gives you confidence. I mean for me, in the course, I do not like to participate. I mean if it is optional, I wouldn’t frankly do it. If he made it optional, I wouldn’t have participated. There are things that I feel they have to force me like this to feel that I am facing the cannon and let’s go.

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Hind identified the difference between speaking in front of her close friends and publicly presenting in front of a larger audience as in this course which included the teacher and other year-five students. She appreciated the mandatory nature of the course because it forced her to face her fear of public speaking and shyness. Although these challenges were not comfortable to face and address and entailed extensive work and thorough preparation, being put in a situation in which they were required to present in front of others was seen as an opportunity to attend to these fears, demonstrate to others their preparation, knowledge and hard work and develop confidence in their ability to participate in this event.

In their accounts above, participants pointed out the significance of seminar presentations for them which moved beyond the official purpose of this course. Learning basic academic skills represented an essential aspect of this significance. Others included sustaining their image among other professionals and addressing personal challenges.