**7. Conclusion**

Involving pharmacy technician students in data collection at the patient level, according to the teachers' observations, has strengthened the students' awareness of their responsibility to ensure patient safety. The students collected the data that can be used for teaching as well as research and, when discussing the data, the teachers observed an advanced level of understanding from students of how optimal counselling can uncover and accommodate patients' concerns and beliefs about the necessity of using medications. Furthermore, the teachers' observations showed that by generating questions and interventions, the pharmacy technician students demonstrated how to counsel and acknowledge patients' different beliefs about medications. Overall, this commentary reports the experiences from an assignment where students, in addition to their formal academic training, have to relate to real-life data about the patients' perspective of using medications. The teachers' reflections indicate that students working with the data they have collected themselves could be a method to strengthen the students' perspective on optimal patient counselling.

**Author Contributions:** The following statements should be used: conceptualization, B.A., R.N.H., and C.R.; investigation, B.A. and C.R.; resources, M.B.-C. and T.D.; writing—original draft preparation, B.A.; writing—review and editing, R.N.H. and C.R.; project administration, B.A. and R.N.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
