Publications by authors named "Alan R Spies"
Objective: To identify pharmacy faculty members' perceptions of psychological contract breaches that can be used to guide improvements in faculty recruitment, retention, and development.
Methods: A list of psychological contract breaches was developed using a Delphi procedure involving a panel of experts assembled through purposive sampling. The Delphi consisted of 4 rounds, the first of which elicited examples of psychological contract breaches in an open-ended format.
Objectives: To adapt and evaluate an instrument that measures perceived psychological contract violations in pharmacy students by schools and colleges of pharmacy.
Design: A psychological contract violations measure was developed from existing literature and the 1997 ACPE Guidelines and pilot-tested with second-year pharmacy students at 2 schools of pharmacy. A revised measure then was administered to second-year pharmacy students at 6 schools of pharmacy.
Plaintiff or defendant: using legal cases to teach students pharmacy law.
Am J Pharm Educ
October 2008
Objective: To demonstrate the value of students using actual legal cases during collaborative "breakout" sessions in a pharmacy law class.
Design: Students were broken into smaller groups and randomly assigned a legal case to arbitrate or defend. One week prior to the groups' presentation, all students were given the facts of a case that was reflective of issues covered during the lecture component of the course.
Objectives: To engage pharmacy students at the McWhorter School of Pharmacy in an authentic discussion of professionalism early in their education.
Methods: A booklet was prepared that included several classic short stories and essays that dealt with professionalism. This booklet was sent to all entering students in the class of 2008 and 2009 during the summer prior to their first-professional year of the PharmD program.