Relationship between advanced pharmacy practice experience grading schemes and pharmacy residency match rates.

Purpose: To determine the relationship of advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) grading schemes and other pharmacy program variables (ie, program age and funding) with pharmacy residency match rates.

Summary: A 12-question survey was disseminated to experiential administrators of pharmacy programs in October 2018. Respondents identified their program's APPE grading scheme (pass/fail, letter grades, or other) and associated pros and cons.

An innovative escape room activity to assess student readiness for advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs).

Background And Purpose: In addition to clinical knowledge, teamwork and critical thinking are skills necessary to be successful during advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). One way that educators can help students to achieve these skills is with the utilization of educational games.

Educational Activity And Setting: Faculty from different departments worked together to develop an educational activity modeled after the escape room game concept for third year pharmacy students enrolled in a pre-APPE readiness course.

Reliability of peer assessment of patient education simulations.

Background: At Belmont University College of Pharmacy, the final introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) course in the IPPE series, IPPE V, is designed to assess readiness for advanced pharmacy practice experiences and includes three patient counseling simulations. These simulations have required greater resources. The objective of our study was to determine if student performance on patient counseling simulations can be accurately assessed by peers.

Evaluation of drug information databases for personal digital assistants.

Purpose: Core and supplemental drug information databases available for use with personal digital assistants (PDAs) were evaluated.

Methods: Ten core (or standalone) databases, six drug interaction analyzers, and three dietary supplement databases used with the Palm and Pocket PC operating systems were selected for study. The databases were rated for scope (the absence or presence of an answer to a drug information question), completeness (the comprehensiveness of an answer), and ease of use (the number of hypertext links needed to reach the desired answer).