A Qualitative Study of Underrepresented Minority (URM) Student Pharmacists' Intersectionality and Professional Identity Formation.

Objective: To determine how underrepresented minority (URM) student pharmacists' intersectionality affects professional identity formation early in their academic career.

Methods: A qualitative study was undertaken. All students from Classes 2022 through 2025 at Texas A&M University School of Pharmacy were required to engage in reflection on a personal statement of philosophy of practice early in their first year of pharmacy as part of the structured longitudinal co-curricular course requirement.

Faculty Self- and Needs Assessment of Preparedness for Integrating Active Learning Based on Medina's Conceptual Framework.

Background: Active learning (AL) is recognized as a valuable learning strategy.

Objective: Using a conceptual framework, the objective of this study was to conduct a faculty self- and needs assessment to determine the extent to which the faculty at one college of pharmacy perceived they already carried out AL, describe faculty challenges, and evaluate faculty examples of AL techniques.

Methods: A 19-question survey was administered in July 2017 to all 50 college faculty.

Impact of Flipped Classroom Design on Student Performance and Perceptions in a Pharmacotherapy Course.

Objective. To determine whether a flipped classroom design would improve student performance and perceptions of the learning experience compared to traditional lecture course design in a required pharmacotherapy course for second-year pharmacy students. Design.

Pharmacy cases in Second Life: an elective course.

Interactive pharmacy case studies are an essential component of the pharmacy curriculum. We recently developed an elective course at the Rangel College of Pharmacy in pharmacy case studies for second- and third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students using Second Life® (SL), an interactive three-dimensional virtual environment that simulates the real world. This course explored the use of SL for education and training in pharmacy, emphasizing a case-based approach.

Faculty and student perceptions of academic integrity at U.S. and Canadian dental schools.

The issues of cheating and plagiarism in educational settings have received a large amount of attention in recent years. The purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which academic integrity issues currently exist in the dental schools throughout the United States and Canada. An online survey was developed to gather data pertaining to this topic from two key groups in dental education: faculty and students.

A multimedia patient simulation for teaching and assessing endodontic diagnosis.

Teaching and assessing diagnostic skills are difficult due to relatively small numbers of total clinical experiences and a shortage of clinical faculty. Patient simulations could help teach and assess diagnosis by displaying a well-defined diagnostic task, then providing informative feedback and opportunities for repetition and correction of errors. This report describes the development and initial evaluation of SimEndo I, a multimedia patient simulation program that could be used for teaching or assessing endodontic diagnosis.

Distance education in the U.S. and Canadian undergraduate dental curriculum.

A major trend at all levels of education in recent years has been the advent of distance learning and, more specifically, the use of computers and communications capabilities to provide online learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which distance learning and online technologies are being employed by dental schools in the United States and Canada. Two groups were surveyed: academic deans and faculty members of U.