Educational technology use among US colleges and schools of pharmacy.

Objective: To develop a searchable database of educational technologies used at schools and colleges of pharmacy.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used to determine what educational technologies were being used and to identify an individual at each institution who could serve as an information resource for peer-to-peer questions.

Results: Eighty-nine survey instruments were returned for a response rate of 75.

Is interprofessionality a threshold concept for education and health care practice?

Advocated for over the last decade, only recently has interprofessional education and practice been front and center in conversations in allied health. The wide acceptance of interprofessional education and practice, however, comes with its own set of unique issues. In fact, many people may purport to be interprofessional when they are acting in a manner inconsistent with it.

Crystallographic B-factors highlight energetic frustration in aldolase folding.

Kinetic simulations of the folding and unfolding of the mammalian TIM barrel protein aldolase were conducted to determine if a minimalist monomeric Gō model, using the native structure to determine attractive energies in the protein chain, could capture the experimentally determined folding pathway. The folding order, that is, the order in which different secondary structures fold, between the Gō model simulations and that from hydrogen-deuterium exchange experiments, did not agree. To explain this discrepancy, two alternate variant of the basic Gō model were simulated: (1) a monomer Gō model with native contact energies weighted by a statistical potential (SP model) and (2) a monomer Gō model with native contact energies inversely weighted by crystallographic B factors (B model).

Educational mentor program in a Web-based doctor of pharmacy degree pathway.

Objective: To establish a successful educational mentor program for the Web-based doctor of pharmacy pathway at Creighton University, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions.

Design: A recruitment process was established and the educational mentor's responsibilities were identified. The roles of faculty instructors, the Office of Information Technology and Learning Resources, the Office of Faculty Development and Assessment, and Web-based Pharmacy Pathway Office as it pertains to the training of educational mentors were clearly delineated.