Adapting a National Framework to Inform Curricular Redesign Focused on Enhancing Student Clinical Competency.

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) programs continually engage in curricular redesign to ensure practice readiness of graduates. With ever-increasing demands on clinical competency and curricular time, it is important to be intentional when determining curricular priorities and prioritize contemporary pharmacist practice. This paper describes how to adapt a national framework for pharmacotherapy curricula to emphasize the pharmacist's role within a given topic area in order to facilitate conversations about allotting curricular time during a curricular redesign.

Learning bridge tool to improve student learning, preceptor training, and faculty teamwork.

Objectives: To implement a Learning Bridge tool to improve educational outcomes for pharmacy students as well as for preceptors and faculty members.

Design: Pharmacy faculty members collaborated to write 9 case-based assignments that first-year pharmacy (P1) students worked with preceptors to complete while at experiential sites.

Assessment: Students, faculty members, and preceptors were surveyed about their perceptions of the Learning Bridge process.

Learning bridge: curricular integration of didactic and experiential education.

Objectives: To assess the impact of a program to integrate introductory pharmacy practice experiences with pharmaceutical science topics by promoting active learning, self-directed learning skills, and critical-thinking skills.

Design: The Learning Bridge, a curriculum program, was created to better integrate the material first-year (P1) students learned in pharmaceutical science courses into their introductory pharmacy practice experiences. Four Learning Bridge assignments required students to interact with their preceptors and answer questions relating to the pharmaceutical science material concurrently covered in their didactic courses.

Characteristics associated with analgesia ordering in the intensive care unit and relationships with outcome.

Objective: To describe clinical characteristics associated with analgesia utilization in the intensive care unit.

Design: A prospective cohort study of adult patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit.

Subjects: Four hundred adult patients.