The purpose of this article is to describe the creation and implementation of a faculty student mentoring program at an accelerated school of pharmacy, and to review 'best practices' relating to mentoring programs.

This chapter explores the role of self-assessment in the development of professional identity formation within student pharmacists.

This article explores the student outcomes of a progressive case on the development of professional identity and professionalism within first-year student pharmacists.

This chapter takes a brief look at this history of health professions education focusing on human medicine, pharmacy, and nursing. This is followed by a description of a model of university teaching and learning to provide a framework for understanding and enhancing healthcare education. Finally, challenges facing today's system for educating…

The role of the pharmacist is evolving with pharmacists' taking more direct responsibility for patient outcomes. As a result, pharmacy education must be designed to ensure graduates are competent and prepared to function within a complex healthcare system. Transitioning to a competency-driven curriculum, can ultimately place the focus of the…

Design thinking is on the rise as a novel method for creative problem solving in healthcare professional programs. This article will focus on implementation of the concepts of design thinking in the classroom, its utility in pharmacy education, and the advantages it provides from both the faculty and students' perspectives within the…

The integration of liberal and professional education will require pharmacy faculties to redefine the dimensions of their role as educators. An assessment of liberal education in pharmacy, models for integration of liberal education, and prescription for change are discussed. (Author/MLW)

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is developing a program to assist in teaching skills instruction for pharmaceutical faculty, help faculty assess their own and peers' teaching, create criteria for determining teaching excellence, and institute a certification system for the designation Master Teacher in Pharmaceutical Education.…

Describes an assessment strategy used by pharmacy faculty to grade student writing in a large-class, lecture-based course, outlining the steps the instructors took to recast an existing writing assignment so that it is carefully constructed and articulated, can be assessed quickly and consistently by multiple assessors (self, peer, instructor),…