Teaching And Learning Strategies In Pharmacy Ethics

When you read Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics, you won?t be surprised that 300 copies of the original version quickly disappeared, and ethics instructors from all over the country soon clamored for a second dose. Broad in scope but filled with specific examples, its nuts-and-bolts approach to pharmacy ethics instruction takes the form of a written prescription from several qualified professionals, giving you a variety of ways in which you can develop your own teaching methods and build on tested course designs. Accomodating enough to serve the interests of pharmacy educators as well as professionals in many other health science fields, Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics contains practical guidelines and examples that will aid you--the novice or expert--in finding the ideal layout for your pharmacy curriculum. Specifically, you?ll read about: contemporary legal cases on ethics instruction student ethical decision making issues raised by advances in biotechnology role playing and its usefulness in teaching teaching faculty about ethics the special challenges of teaching ethics to practicing pharmacists adding a writing emphasis to your teaching The creative, fun, and engaging methods in this helpful manual provide fertile ground upon which you can develop a wider, more personal repertoire of pharmacy ethics instruction. So if the expiration date on your syllabus is five years old and it feels like your class or seminar is a medicine cabinet crammed with old bottles and pills, clean it out and start over with Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pharmacy Ethics. It?ll be just what the doctor ordered.

While the pharmaceutical industry evolves, the need for curriculum changes inherently follows suit. As healthcare systems have continuously improved through the use of big data and innovative care approaches, practicing pharmacists have also had to adjust and expand their roles. As such, it is imperative that the current and future pharmaceutical workforce is properly trained, taking into account new competencies that are needed to provide exceptional multidisciplinary patient healthcare. Pedagogies for Pharmacy Curricula presents emerging teaching practices and methods for pharmacy curricula and reviews pedagogic methodologies on the scope of pharmaceutical care in pharmacy curricula. The chapters present learning outcomes on general and specific topics, impact of undergraduate interventions on patient outcomes, and comparisons between different teaching pedagogies/models. While highlighting topic areas such as perspectives on learning and teaching, evidence-based practice education, and the relationships between academia and professionals, this book is ideal for health professionals, pharmacists, teachers, schools of pharmacy, medical school faculty, international organizations, clinicians, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in learning about the latest pedagogic methodologies in pharmacy curricula.

What can senior pharmacy faculty do to help their junior colleagues succeed? The Handbook for Pharmacy Educators: Getting Adjusted as a New Pharmacy Faculty Member gives voice to junior pharmacy faculty members who present their personal accounts of their experiences on the job. These six junior faculty, representing the basic, administrative, and clinical sciences, share their lessons learned, give advice on what to do (and what NOT to do) as a new faculty member, and relate the triumphs and challenges they met along the way. For balance, a senior faculty member with experience in both teaching and research environments shares his thoughts on what the other authors have to say. From the editors: ?Despite the existence of a couple of excellent references in this area, there has not been any previous work that takes this approach?that is, of allowing junior faculty, representing both teaching and research institutions, to share `memoirs? of their own unique experiences. We hope that this approach will ease the way for new faculty members and provide senior faculty, deans, and administrators who are long removed from new faculty status a better understanding of the hurdles that new faculty must clear today. In gaining this understanding, they may become even better advisors, mentors, and administrators.? The Handbook for Pharmacy Educators: Getting Adjusted as a New Pharmacy Faculty Member will help new faculty address the questions that start with ?how,? like, How can I: be sure to start my teaching out on the right foot? figure out which teaching strategies are most appropriate? establish and develop good rapport with my students? begin to establish mutually beneficial relationships with my colleagues? socialize and make new friends in my new environment? gain support for my research agenda? learn what resources are available to me? find out about performance appraisals and rewards? handle or appreciate the extra pressures facing faculty who don?t happen to be white males?

Why can't we all just get along?? Incivility is a growing problem within all aspects of pharmaceutical education and, indeed, across the spectrum of higher education. Promoting Civility in Pharmacy Education describes the issues involved and provides practical solutions. With this book, you'll learn which teaching characteristics lead to more/less incivility in the classroom, how to make your expectations known in a nonconfrontational manner, and how to respond to incivilities from students, administrators, and faculty. Promoting Civility in Pharmacy Education examines ways to deal with incivility in: large classroom settings—with a discussion of honor codes and a sample syllabus small classroom/small group settings, including discussion of the role of the group in controlling and preventing incivilities and of the negative effect of incivility on group learning clinical settings, with a focus on insubordination, missed deadlines, sloppy/incomplete work, and unprofessional conduct Some of the problems this book will help you address include: “passive” incivilities such as inattention, lateness, asking for extensions on assignments, and making excuses, as well as mild disruptions such as cell phone conversations during class time “overt” or “active” incivilities, including vulgar language, insulting comments, direct challenges to the teacher's authority, and physical threats The book also explores the incivilities brought on by prejudice and racism, incivilities that occur between graduate students and their teachers, the important relationship between professionalism and civility, and issues that new faculty face as they adjust to new teaching positions. Because it is packed with practical solutions to a large number of problems, Promoting Civility in Pharmacy Education is a must-have for anyone involved with pharmacy education. Make it a part of your professional collection today!

Use cutting-edge techniques such as active learning and Web-based education to teach more successfully! Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. This proverb encapsulates the exciting new spirit of abilities-based education, which has reached into the fast-changing field of pharmacy. The Handbook for Pharmacy Educators teaches you to harness the powerful techniques of abilities-based education--such as active learning, outcomes assessment, and Web-based education--in order to convey not just the nuts and bolts of dispensing prescriptions but all the essential tasks a caring, capable pharmacist must address. This exciting volume brings together theories, suggestions, and case studies to help you take advantage of new teaching techniques in pharmacy education. Instead of long, dull lectures, abilities-based education brings together multiple techniques to develop skills, attitude, and knowledge. Students are grounded in facts and figures, then taught how to use them in their professional lives. By setting clear learning objectives and assessing the results, you can help students integrate and use the information you present. The Handbook for Pharmacy Educators offers fresh ideas to reinvigorate your teaching, such as: varying exercises to keep students’attention handling problems in small-group dynamics setting learning objectives and assessing outcomes effectively using visual information in a presentation creating successful handouts tapping the Web as a 24-hour classroom The Handbook for Pharmacy Educators will help you become a more effective teacher. This guide will help you design, implement, and assess a pharmacy program based on identifying the abilities you want students to acquire. The Handbook for Pharmacy Educators will help you implement new teaching methods and rethink old ones to successfully face questions and challenges in the dynamic field of pharmacy.

Pharmacists face ethical choices constantly -- sometimes dramatic life-and-death decisions, but more often subtle, less conspicuous choices that are nonetheless important. Among the topics confronted are assisted suicide, conscientious refusal, pain management, equitable distribution of drug resources within institutions and managed care plans, confidentiality, and alternative and non-traditional therapies. Veatch and Haddad's book, first published in 1999, was the first collection of case studies based on the real experiences of practicing pharmacists, for use as a teaching tool for pharmacy students. The second edition accounts for the many changes in pharmacy since 1999, including assisted suicide in Oregon, the purchasing of less expensive drugs from Canada, and the influence of managed care on prescriptions. The presentation of some cases is shortened, most are revised and updated, and two new chapters have been added. The first new chapter presents a new model for analyzing cases, while the second focuses on the ethics of new drug distribution systems, for example hospitals where pharmacists are forced to choose drugs based on cost-effectiveness, and internet based pharmacies.