A Review of Performance Evaluation Paradigms Involving Practice Faculty.

Objectives: This article aimed to identify, review, and summarize the literature broadly related to practice faculty evaluations, and provide recommendations for developing equitable systems that recognize and value diverse contributions across the 4 mission areas of practice, teaching, research, and service.

Findings: Practice contributions are often evaluated using ill-defined and highly variable approaches, with surveys reporting that half of pharmacy schools have written policies for evaluating practice contributions. From our review of the literature, performance evaluations of teaching are primarily focused on didactic teaching.

Practice Faculty Also Need Sabbatical Leaves.

The academic sabbatical in higher education has been used as a tool for personal and professional growth. Although sabbaticals for tenured faculty have been widely accepted and utilized, their use for nontenure, contract, and practice-based faculty are not well-understood. To explore the reason behind this, the authors undertook focus sessions among practice faculty who had taken a sabbatical leave or were considering a sabbatical leave.

Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Pharmacy Entrustable Professional Activities.

With declining applicant numbers, pharmacy education seeks to effectively communicate the value of the pharmacist on the health care team to attract learners to pharmacy. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) published entrustable professional activities (EPAs) to outline the expected roles and responsibilities of new pharmacy graduates. However, it is unknown whether these statements resonate with the general public and could potentially attract learners to pharmacy.

Assessing pharmacogenomic literacy in China through validation of the Chinese version of the Minnesota Assessment of Pharmacogenomic Literacy.

Pharmacogenomics (PGx) implementation into clinical care is rapidly increasing in China. However, the extent to which the public understands PGx testing and important knowledge domains requiring patient education or counseling remains unclear. To address this, we created and validated the Chinese version of the Minnesota Assessment of Pharmacogenomic Literacy (MAPL-C ).

Medical Residents' Informal Learning from Pharmacists in the Clinical Workplace.

Unlabelled: Workplace-based interactions between residents and pharmacists, though relatively underexplored, might contribute substantially to learning. This international study sought to investigate the affordances residents use for informal learning about medications, their interactions with pharmacists and patterns of resident-pharmacist engagement, as well as residents' perceived impact of these interactions on their learning. Contextual differences between US and Dutch residency training and electronic health record (EHR) may impact informal learning about medications.