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…
Perspectives Can Indigenous Cultural Competency be Assessed in an OSCE? 20 Nov 201814 Feb 2019 By Carla Dillon, BScPharm, ACPR, PharmD Making the move from teaching pharmacy in Canada to New Zealand was a big personal learning leap. My new role involved assisting students’ cultural…
Perspectives A Student Pharmacist’s Journey to Empathy: Easier Said Than Done 13 Nov 201814 Feb 2019 By Lisa Deacon, 2019 PharmD Candidate Suppose you have a diabetic patient with a complicated medication regimen that includes a fast acting insulin injection three time a day with meals,…
Perspectives Are Students Ready to Take on Industry Fellowships? 6 Nov 201814 Feb 2019 By Amee Mistry, PharmD, RPh and Jordan Haines, 2019 PharmD Candidate MCPHS University As a student pharmacist in my fourth professional year, I have started preparing for the stress of…
Preliminary research There are others like me out there 30 Oct 201814 Feb 2019 By Christopher S. Wisniewski, PharmD, MSCR, BCPS; Audrey Kostrzewa, PharmD, MPH, BCPS; Priya Shenoy, BSN, MLIS; Melissa L. Hunter, PharmD, RPh Literature describing mentorship within a professional pharmacy organization is…
Questions for the Academy What Does it Take to Become a Successful Academic Writer? 25 Oct 201814 Feb 2019 By Eliza Dy-Boarman, PharmD and Kristin Janke, PhD This post is provided in conjunction with the Fall 2018 #RxWritingChallenge, an international event to support academic writing in pharmacy. Dialogue and…
Perspectives Insurance Billing In Pharmacy Curricula: Is This Covered? 23 Oct 201814 Feb 2019 By Jordan L. Kelley, PharmD The first question asked to me as a pharmacist was “Is this medication covered by patient X’s insurance?” After sitting through pharmacology, pharmaceutics, therapeutics, 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…
Preliminary research Does Procrastination Pay Off? 2 Oct 201814 Feb 2019 By Purna Patel, PharmD candidate, Sierra George, PharmD candidate, Yuan Zhao, PhD, Kimberly Elder, PharmD Procrastination, defined as the avoidance of a task that needs to be completed, is a…
Perspectives The Practical Disconnect: Why Students Can’t Define a Source 18 Sep 201814 Feb 2019 By Urvi J. Patel, PharmD, MPH It was my first day as a PGY1 pharmacy practice resident in a clinical rotation. I was eager to become part of the team…
