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Course Title: Advanced Specialty Clerkship Course Number: PMPR 388 Semester Hours: Four (may be repeated for credit) Prerequisite: Fourth year, doctor of pharmacy standing Description: A full-time academic rotation that is designed to enhance the student’s awareness of an academic career, to develop personal teaching skills, and to provide exposure to the various responsibilities associated with a faculty member in pharmaceutical education. Justification: There is an urgent need in academic pharmacy for pharmacy-educated individuals to enhance and replace faculty lost through attrition and/or changes in professional interest. Currently, pharmaceutical education does not nurture nor emphasize the education and skill development of future academicians. As a result, many students are not aware of the many rewards of an academic pharmacy career. Interest in such a career can only come about through involvement and first-hand experience in teaching, scholarship, and service endeavors. Course Objectives: Upon satisfactory completion of this academic clerkship rotation, the student will be able to
1. describe the role of the educator in various instructional environments (e.g., classroom, laboratory, recitation). 2. list the various responsibilities of an academician outside of the teaching setting. 3. describe various teaching strategies that can be utilized in the various classroom settings. 4. describe various evaluation strategies that can be utilized to assess student learning. 5. describe the tools utilized to evaluate an academician’s teaching effectiveness. 6. describe the infrastructure available to enhance an academician’s teaching and the process for procurement of needed materials for classroom and laboratory use. 7. execute the steps in the systematic design of a unit of instruction. 8. discuss the roles of the faculty member, the faculty as a whole, and the Educational Policy Committee upon the curriculum. 9. describe the process whereby a core-curriculum or elective course are added or deleted from the curriculum. 10. list and describe various committees and activities in which an academician may participate. 11. describe the process to develop a manuscript for publication. 12. describe the process involved in executing a peer review of a manuscript submitted for publication.
Instructional Methods: Contact with preceptor/mentor within and outside of class. Contact with undergraduate and graduate students in classes and laboratories of assigned courses. Reading assignments Written, reflective journal assignments Long-term instructional design project
Student Responsibilities: Students enrolled in this academic rotation will meet regularly with the rotation preceptor at mutually agreed times and locations and complete all assignments by agreed upon due dates. Preceptor: Nicholas G. Popovich, Ph.D. Professor and Head Department of Pharmacy Administration College of Pharmacy (M/C 871) University of Illinois-Chicago Textbook: McKeachie WJ, et al., “Teaching Tips,” 10th edition, Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA, 1999.
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