Perspectives Use Your Words: Relaying the Importance of Vocabulary in the Classroom 9 Jan 20189 Jan 2018 By Penni Black, PhD I often hear my colleagues say to their young kids “use your words”. Most of the time there has been a meltdown or disagreement that necessitates…
Perspectives Helping Students Find Their Passion: Sooner Rather Than Later 2 Jan 20182 Jan 2018 By Sierra George, PharmD Student Recently, my sister (an undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky), shadowed me for a day to experience “life as a student pharmacist.” She was…
Perspectives Do We Need a More “Elementary” Approach to Pharmacy Education? 19 Dec 2017 By Chris Johnson, PharmD, MEd Knowledge is growing at an unprecedented rate.1 Educators in the elementary through high school levels have been grappling with this problem for years: what is…
Preliminary research “Let’s build a robot”: a Lego® building challenge to introduce pharmacy undergraduates to teamwork 12 Dec 201712 Dec 2017 By Efi Mantzourani, PhD, MSc, MPharm, PgCUTL Summer Struggles “What a challenging time to be a pharmacy student! Not only do you need to become a clinically competent practitioner, but…
Perspectives How Should We Train Successful Peer Teachers: A Student’s Perspective 28 Nov 2017 By Kevin Chen, M.S. Teaching and learning certificate programs aim to prepare individuals to become instructors, yet even after completing several pedagogical courses in my previous graduate school career, I…
Perspectives Maximizing Your Team and Resources- An Experiential Education Perspective 31 Oct 2017 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…
Preliminary research I Feel Your Pain: Developing Empathy in Student Pharmacists Within a Pharmacology Course 24 Oct 201724 Oct 2017 By Megan Chapman, PharmD/MPH Candidate 2018 As healthcare professionals, it is easy to tell patients that they must take their medications exactly as prescribed in order for their conditions to be…
Perspectives Addressing Challenges of Professional Identity Formation 17 Oct 201726 Oct 2017 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…
Perspectives A Future for Mixed-Methods in Pharm Ed? 10 Oct 20172 Oct 2017 By Michael J. Peeters, PharmD, MEd, FCCP, BCPS What is the nature of our obsession with certain aspects of assessment in pharmacy education? Over the past decade, a number of…
Perspectives Teaching Students the Importance of Professional Relationship Development 3 Oct 20172 Oct 2017 By Craig Martin, PharmD, MBA Most of us have been there. Someone mentions the word “networking” and it immediately conjures images of that smarmy, business card-collecting name-dropper from somewhere in…
