Pulses Technology: Deus Ex Machina 15 Sep 20208 Sep 2020 By: Jonathan Thigpen, PharmD; Emmeline Tran, PharmD, BCPS; Damianne Brand, PharmD; Vibhuti Agrahari, Ph.D., M. Pharm. “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backward.” ―…
Perspectives… Blending activities of cognitive ease and cognitive strain: A balanced recipe to better engage students in classrooms 26 Aug 202019 Aug 2020 By: Shankar Munusamy, BPharm, MS (Pharm), Ph.D. & Michael Nelson, BS Pharm, Ph.D. According to Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-winning behavioral economist, our mental state can be divided into cognitive ease…
Perspectives Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Intelligences Theory 12 May 202010 May 2020 By: Salome Bwayo Weaver, PharmD, BCGP; Valerie U Oji, PharmD, BCPP Recently, we thought about the laboratory-based learning that students receive. We have taught pharmacy laboratory courses over the past…
Perspectives TBL and Knowledge Retention: Are We Doing Enough? 28 Apr 202015 Apr 2020 By: Chris Johnson, PharmD, MEd, BCACP; Lydia Newsom, PharmD, BCPS; Jared Butler, PharmD, BCPS, DPLA Previous Pulses posts have described the theoretical underpinnings of team-based learning (TBL) and best practices…
Perspectives TBL: Pre-Class Preparation is Not Just for Students 10 Dec 201913 Feb 2020 By Lydia C. Newsom, PharmD, BCPS; Chris Johnson, PharmD, MEd, BCACP; Jared Butler, PharmD, BCPS, DPLA Team-based learning (TBL) continues to be a popular pedagogy in pharmacy education, but how…
Perspectives TBL as more than just another pedagogy 30 Jul 201923 Aug 2019 By Jared Butler, PharmD, BCPS, DPLA; Chris Johnson, PharmD, MEd, BCACP; Lydia Newsom, PharmD, BCPS Team-based learning (TBL), introduced by Larry Michaelsen in the 1970’s, was an evolution for making…
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…
Perspectives How Do We Keep Kinesthetic Millennials Engaged in the Classroom? 24 Apr 201814 Feb 2019 By Stephanie White, PharmD As educators, “active learning” is easier said than done effectively. There are traditional ways of active learning, such as incorporating patient cases and think-pair-share, that students…
Preliminary research “Let’s build a robot”: a Lego® building challenge to introduce pharmacy undergraduates to teamwork 12 Dec 201714 Feb 2019 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…
