Perspectives The Double Edge Sword of Exam Reviews 6 Feb 201819 Feb 2018 By H Andrew Wilsey, PharmD As a recent pharmacy school graduate, I have a secret to share. If you, as a professor, repeat exam questions, a more than small percentage…
Perspectives The Socratic Method: Are We Pimping Students? 30 Jan 201830 Jan 2018 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…
Preliminary research Helping Students Figure Out What Went Wrong Using an Exam Autopsy 23 Jan 201823 Jan 2018 by Ashley Castleberry, PharmD, MAEd Students do not regularly think about their own thinking; this is especially true regarding exams. Unfortunately, students rarely learn from an exam because they do…
Perspectives The Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process as Sensemaking 16 Jan 201812 Jan 2018 By Kathryn J Smith, PharmD, BCACP Imagine a small military unit sent on a mission in the Swiss Alps. They are not familiar with the terrain nor are they equipped…
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…
