Utilizing Flip® as a platform to facilitate a group project in a socially distanced environment.

Background And Purpose: This study evaluated the perceived impact of using Flip (Microsoft Corp.) to facilitate a group project in a socially distanced environment.

Educational Activity And Setting: Student groups were assigned a self-care scenario, and students independently traveled to local pharmacies to identify a pertinent nonprescription product.

Impact of two methods for assigning groups in a team-based learning self-care course.

Introduction: Studies have examined the impact of team formation strategies to performance on team assessments and perceptions of team dynamics. This study assessed the impact of intentional vs. randomized team formation strategies on a semester-long self-care pharmacotherapy course taught using team-based learning.

A simulated patient experience in the self-care aisle utilizing Flipgrid as a platform for sharing nonprescription product information.

Background And Purpose: Students visiting local pharmacies can enhance their learning about nonprescription products while improving their understanding of the patient self-care experience. This study was designed to examine student perceptions of an activity utilizing Flipgrid to share a simulated patient experience in the nonprescription aisle.

Educational Activity And Setting: Student groups traveled to local pharmacies to review available products pertaining to a self-care scenario.

Developing a process to manage challenges encountered by experiential education administrators.

Introduction: This study explored preceptor and student related issues reported in pharmacy experiential education settings and solutions that experiential education administrators (EEAs) applied to inform a process to manage these challenges.

Methods: This mixed-methods study was conducted in two phases. In phase one, five EEAs from three schools of pharmacy collected quantitative and qualitative data over a two-year period on issues reported by students and preceptors and the solutions EEAs employed.

Dopamine receptor D3 agonist (Pramipexole) reduces morphine-induced cardiac fibrosis.

Morphine is routinely used for pain management in heart failure patients. However, extended morphine exposure associates with major adverse cardiovascular events. Reports link the dopamine receptor D2-family with morphine-induced nociception modulation.