Perspectives Hands Off? Considerations for Virtual Compounding Education 6 May 20214 May 2021 By: Melvin Vazquez, PharmD Candidate and Mary E. Fredrickson, PharmD, BCPS Compounding is a unique and valuable skill of pharmacists, and colleges of pharmacy have been in search of ways to optimize compounding education. In 2009, the American Association of…
Perspectives Choose Your Own Adventure! – Engaging Learners in Digital, Interactive Patient Stories 11 Mar 20217 Mar 2021 By: Morgan P. Stewart, Pharm D, BCACP Have you recently given a virtual lecture to an audience of blank screens or had learners admit to “Zoom fatigue”? Amidst the COVID-19…
Perspectives 10-Second Active Learning Exercise in a Pharmacotherapy Course 13 Oct 20208 Oct 2020 By: Lana Gettman, PharmD The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education standards 10.2 and 11.2 focus on the need for faculty and preceptors to include active-learning strategies to improve the critical…
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…
