The Role of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Pharmacy Education and Practice.

A current major topic of conversation in academic pharmacy is "curricular hoarding," the overloading of the curriculum due to the steady addition of required knowledge and skills without a concomitant subtraction of existing content. It can be tempting to consider addressing hoarding by just reducing content in the foundational biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences or by shifting some foundational content into prerequisites for admission into the Doctor of Pharmacy program. The health care education literature suggests that this approach would negatively impact the development of the critical and clinical thinking skills needed by a modern pharmacist.

Impact of frequency of spaced retrieval using repeat testing on asthma pharmacotherapy knowledge retention.

Objective: "Test-enhanced learning" is a strategy utilized to impact knowledge retention. This study aimed to assess the effect of the frequency of spaced retrieval using repeat testing on knowledge depreciation in a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Program.

Methods: The study randomly assigned second-year pharmacy students to one of three retrieval practice groups: (1) two retrieval practice assessments (2 and 4 months after the course), (2) one retrieval practice assessment (4 months after the course), or (3) no retrieval practice.

Minocycline Topical Foam: A New Drug for the Treatment of Acne.

Objective: To review the safety and efficacy of minocycline 4% topical foam for the treatment of moderate to severe acne vulgaris in adults and pediatric patients aged 9 years and older.

Data Sources: A literature search through PubMed and EMBASE was conducted using the following keywords: , , , and .

Study Selection And Data Extraction: Articles selected included those describing preclinical and clinical studies of pharmacokinetics, efficacy, or safety of topical minocycline foam.

Comparing self-reported burnout of pharmacy students on the founding campus with those at distance campuses.

Objectives: To compare burnout among students: (1) assigned to the founding campus and those assigned to distance campuses and (2) in different academic years of the curriculum. The third objective was to determine the relative ability of each factor to predict burnout among pharmacy students.

Methods: Students in Gainesville (founding campus) and the Jacksonville, Orlando, and St.