Report of the 2017-2018 Student Affairs Standing Committee.

The 2017-2018 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Student Affairs Standing Committee addressed charges related to student wellness and resilience and identified ways where AACP can assist member organizations to build positive wellbeing in students. The Committee report provides nine recommendations to AACP, three suggestions for colleges and schools of pharmacy, and one proposed policy statement related to student wellness and resilience. The report focuses on themes of consequences of burnout and declining resilience, culture shift around wellness, creating community around times of grief, partnerships with member organizations to create campus cultures that promote overall wellbeing and strategies to help students to manage stress in healthy ways.

Perceptions and Cost-Analysis of a Multiple Mini-Interview in a Pharmacy School Admissions Process.

Objective: To improve the quality of admissions interviews for a doctor of pharmacy program, using a multiple mini-interview (MMI) in place of the standard interview.

Methods: Stakeholders completed an anonymous web-based survey. This study characterized perceptions of the MMI format across 3 major stakeholders (candidates, interviewers, admissions committee members) and included comparative cost estimates.

Educating for safety in the pharmacy curriculum.

This overview of the Educating for Safety supplement issue explores the context and urgency of the problem of unsafe care, what we have learned about improving both safety and quality in health care, and the implications of this for educators. This supplement issue is a response to the charge of the AACP Council of Deans (COD) and the Council of Faculties (COF) Medication Safety Task Force to address the role of colleges and schools of pharmacy in responding to the national patient safety agenda. The articles included are intended to serve as a nexus for pharmacy education in developing curricula and promoting best practices as they relate to the importance of medication safety.

Heart of Pharmacy: a course exploring the psychosocial issues of patient care.

Objective: To implement and assess the impact of a course utilizing reflective learning to explore the complex, psychosocial human issues encountered in pharmacy practice.

Design: A 1-credit-hour elective course, The Heart of Pharmacy, was offered to all pharmacy students. The course utilized both content and reflective techniques to produce a mutual exploratory learning experience for students, staff, and faculty members.

Effective communication of drug safety information to patients and the public: a new look.

Recent parallel developments in the fields of medicine and the social sciences are providing us with new insights and resources that have the potential for improving the effectiveness of drug safety communication and decision-making. These developments include medicine's new look at patient safety with its emphasis on complex adaptive systems, education's new appreciation for learning as an internal change process and risk communication's evolving recognition that relevant knowledge may not be the exclusive property of 'experts'. Eight principles are drawn from this analysis: there cannot be a safer drug until there is a safer system;all stakeholders are equal partners and have an equal voice in all deliberations;paternalism must be eliminated;the expertise for determining acceptable benefit and risk is dispersed throughout society;patients and all stakeholders serve as both teachers and learners;all stakeholders are involved in the identification of their learning needs, processes and evaluation of outcomes;in a complex adaptive system all individual actions are interconnected and;patients must be involved in the continuous feedback and redesign of the evolving drug safety information system.