Innovative Active Learning Strategies in Self-Care Therapeutics
Hosted by the Self-Care Therapeutics/Nonprescription Medicine SIG.
Self-care therapeutics courses encompass a wide array of topics, disease states, and therapeutic options, which can become cumbersome and sometimes overwhelming, particularly because this is often the students’ first encounter with a therapeutics course. Experienced self-care instructors will share six innovative strategies to enhance this course, including a useful Yelp-like rating for each. The attendees will be presented with ready-to-go, packaged activities that they can implement at their institutions.
Objectives:
- Assess and critique diverse self-care therapeutics strategies presented by different institutions, analyzing their success metrics, including student satisfaction, faculty ease of use, required resources, and scalability.
- Dissect the factors used in the Yelp-like rating system (student satisfaction, faculty ease of use, resource requirements, scalability, etc.) to understand how these elements impact the selection of strategies for integration into their own teaching methods
- Develop a plan to implement at least one strategy in their self-care therapeutics courses and receive organized bundles of materials for each presented strategy, ensuring readiness to deploy upon returning to their institutions
Moderator:
Kendall Guthrie, PharmD, BCACP
Director of Co-Curriculum/Clinical Associate Professor
UMKC School of Pharmacy
Speakers:
Ellen Jones, PharmD, BCACP
Associate Professor
Harding University College of Pharmacy
Jenna Mills, PharmD, BCPS
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
University of Findlay, College of Pharmacy
Mary Douglass Smith
Director of Experiential Education/Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy