Students at Creighton University's School of Pharmacy were offered the option of taking a pharmacy jurisprudence course by a self-taught, self-paced mode or by the traditional lecture mode. Comparasions were made of students in each group. Topics of the learning module and NABPLEX propositions for examining competency are included. (SW)

A course examining the health beliefs and practices of various traditional cultures focuses on the Third World. It includes such course topics as health relevant behavior, systems of folk medicine and the role of drugs in them, and issues in introducing modern health programs to non-industrial societies. (MSE)

Two clinical courses for first-year dental students were designed to develop students' interaction skills through actual patient case presentations and discussions and an interdisciplinary teaching approach. Results indicate students preferred the case presentations, with or without lecture, to the lecture-only approach and felt they learned more…