Optimizing optimization: A six-year quality improvement project focused on students' APPE preferences.

Problem Description: The advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) component of the entry-level doctor of pharmacy degree program is essential in contributing to student pharmacists' education. Establishing an optimization process to assist students in matching to their highest preferred clinical sites is extremely important.

Quality Improvement Methods: The University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences uses a fourth year APPE match process designed to yield the best possible matches for the entire class while being perceived as fair and relatively easy to navigate.

A longitudinal quality improvement program to optimize experiential education's ability to develop trusted independent pharmacist practitioners.

Problem Description: To meet the evolving role of today's pharmacist, student pharmacists need to be given independent responsibilities that increase in rigor as they advance through the curriculum and be able to practice both autonomously and as part of an interprofessional team. Quality improvement methods: The University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS) experiential programs office undertook a 20-year process of developing independence for students. Students faced increasing challenges and responsibilities as they moved through experiential practice settings, with constant, cyclic adjustments made in response to feedback.

Cultivating a Culture of Reflection Among Pharmacy Students Through Storytelling.

To hold a storytelling event and assess its effect on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students' perspectives on and attitudes toward reflection. Story Slam, a four-hour storytelling competition, was incorporated into the spring semester of the first professional year of a PharmD program. The event featured short first-person stories told by faculty members as well as students.

Trisomy 22 with holoprosencephaly: a clinicopathologic study.

Trisomy 22 (47, XY, +22) was found at 17 weeks gestation in one fetus of a twin gestation. The karyotypes of both parents and of the other twin were normal. Abnormal prenatal findings included maternal pre-eclampsia, fetal growth retardation, and progressive intracranial sonolucency of the trisomic fetus.