Teacher Reflections “So…what do we do?” When Unclear Directions Mask the Objective of your Activity 5 Feb 201914 Feb 2019 By Sarah E. Lynch, PharmD, BCACP As a pharmacy student, I would get frustrated when I would attend a lab or workshop and feel like I was being tested on…
Teacher Reflections Rater-based Assessment: Are We Doing It All Wrong? 27 Nov 201814 Feb 2019 By Kyle John Wilby, BSP, ACPR, PharmD Setting the scene Three assessors watched an OSCE performance and evaluated the student’s communication skills on a generic rubric with three descriptors and…
Teacher Reflections Sharing the experience of inexperience: A letter to a new faculty member 9 Oct 201814 Feb 2019 By Emily K. Frederick, PharmD, BCPS; Sarah Raake, PharmD, BCACP, LDE As I sit somewhere past junior, but not yet senior faculty, I feel compelled to deepen my reflection. This…
Teacher Reflections What We Learned About Creating Our First Dossiers 4 Sep 201814 Feb 2019 By Alexander Hoffman, PharmD and Jaclyn Boyle, PharmD The promotion process can be daunting. As Bates et al. note, the highly particular nature of the promotion and tenure process, the…
Teacher Reflections Stellar and Cellar: The Results of Student Self-selected Groups 31 Jul 201814 Feb 2019 By Jeff Cain, EdD, MS Have you ever tried a new teaching approach just to see what happens? I have. Sometimes out of curiosity, I experiment with some aspect of…
Teacher Reflections How to be a “Good” Pharmacy Student by Utilizing Deliberate Practice 26 Jun 201814 Feb 2019 By Riley D. Bowers, PharmD, BCPS Why am I writing this? What credibility do I have on this topic? I am not special. I am not an expert in the…
Teacher Reflections Teaching with Heart: Empathy in the Classroom 10 Apr 201814 Feb 2019 by Yuan Zhao, PhD Lynn Fuller, PhD, RPh Many instructor-related factors contribute to student learning in a classroom including mastery of subject, teaching style, attitude and enthusiasm.1 One factor that…
Teacher Reflections The Socratic Method: Are We Pimping Students? 30 Jan 201814 Feb 2019 by Amber Grady, PharmD The Socratic method is a long-standing and well-known method of teaching students using repeated questioning to think critically. It is a well-established teaching method in the…
Teacher Reflections Maximizing Your Team and Resources- An Experiential Education Perspective 31 Oct 201714 Feb 2019 by Misty Stutz, PharmD and Vinh Nguyen, PharmD “The student is on an experiential rotation…so the Office of Experiential Education (OEE) should handle that.” It’s difficult to count the number…
Teacher Reflections Addressing Challenges of Professional Identity Formation 17 Oct 201714 Feb 2019 By Bethany Von Hoff, PharmD A few months ago, I wrote that pharmacy education too often confuses professionalism with professional identity formation. I identified why I think encouraging professional identity…
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