Perspectives The Double Edge Sword of Exam Reviews 6 Feb 201815 Jun 2024 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 Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process as Sensemaking 16 Jan 201815 Jun 2024 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 201815 Jun 2024 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 201815 Jun 2024 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 201715 Jun 2024 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…
Perspectives How Should We Train Successful Peer Teachers: A Student’s Perspective 28 Nov 201715 Jun 2024 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 Teaching Students the Importance of Professional Relationship Development 3 Oct 201715 Jun 2024 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…
Perspectives Transforming Student Pharmacists into Accountable Practitioners – Part 2: Strategies 22 Aug 201715 Jun 2024 By Andrew Bzowyckyj, PharmD In my previous post in this series, I discussed some barriers that can prevent student pharmacists from developing their sense of accountability to the patient, and…
Perspectives Auditory Learning and the “Stigma of Audiobooks” 8 Aug 201714 Feb 2019 By Daniel Malcom, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Recently, in a book club at our institution, a discussion was ongoing about the implications of our latest selection. I chimed in with a…
Perspectives The Journey of Learning to Learn on My Own 25 Jul 201715 Jun 2024 by: Eric Gregory, PharmD Many colleges and schools of pharmacy are shifting curriculum delivery towards flipped or hybrid models, but students, like myself just a couple of years ago, may not…
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