tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115778182024-03-19T03:29:54.277-04:00Educational Theory and PracticeMusings by people who think about educational psychology and the practice of instructional designStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-28027942348865722023-10-07T09:55:00.001-04:002023-10-07T09:55:11.045-04:00Handwriting vs. Typing Notes: What is Their Impact on Learning?by Olivia Redmann, PharmD, PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident, The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
In an age dominated by technology, handwriting notes may seem antiquated. With laptops, tablets, and smartphones at our fingertips, the convenience of typing notes during lectures has quickly become the norm. In my own experience, I find handwriting notes better for learning. I hadStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-51361186062572347502023-06-04T17:07:00.003-04:002023-06-04T17:07:20.891-04:00Interventions to Support Student Wellbeing to Improve Retention and Learningby Alyssa Hooter, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Burnout, a term to describe a state of exhaustion from working excessively, was first used in 1974.1 Burnout can also be used to describe the depleted mental state and mental exhaustion students develop toward their studies. This is often seen in students pursuing professional degrees in the healthStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-17923508733400979672023-05-04T13:16:00.004-04:002023-05-04T13:16:31.600-04:00Should TBL Readiness Assurance Tests Be Graded?by Kaylee Hall, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Team-based learning (TBL) is a learning strategy that requires students to prepare for topics prior to class and be ready to apply that knowledge to solve problems in a group setting. In professional schools, this is typically done by working through patient cases and clinical questions as a team. TBL is Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-32225546369401508682023-05-03T19:06:00.001-04:002023-05-03T19:06:04.616-04:00Leading Future Leaders? Developing a Curriculum to Enhance Leadership Skillsby Blake Mangum, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
When enrolling in a professional health program such as medicine, pharmacy, or nursing, many students must adjust to the demands of their program. The material is complex, the workload is demanding, and there are often co-curricular organizations and responsibilities to make time management even Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-79360511152809969922023-03-30T16:37:00.004-04:002023-03-30T16:37:46.115-04:00Biases, Microaggressions, and Stereotype Threat and Their Impact on Learningby La’Kendra Bell, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
As an African American woman, I have had a front-row seat to the many microaggressions, biases, and stereotypes that come with being black. I, however, did not let it hinder my growth, as I aspired to be a healthcare professional and make a difference in communities that look like meStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-81948108538462542342023-03-29T20:07:00.004-04:002023-03-29T20:09:42.175-04:00Co-Learning: Students and Faculty Learning Togetherby Victoria Goodman, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
As someone who graduated from a professional degree program and returned from the workforce to complete a PGY-1 pharmacy residency, I feel there were few opportunities to truly collaborate with my professors/preceptors until after graduation. There were set roles; I was the studentStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-67183206329813278422023-03-16T14:29:00.004-04:002023-03-16T14:29:42.115-04:00The Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media in Learning Environmentsby Chelsea Watts, PharmD , PGY1 Community Pharmacy Resident, Mississippi State Department of Health
Social media has had a significant impact on our society. In January 2023, there were 4.76 billion social media users. That’s nearly 60% of the total global population.1 Regardless of individual socio-demographics, nearly everyone is connected through social media. Social media platforms Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-77761558816966240602023-02-23T21:25:00.004-05:002023-02-23T21:26:10.169-05:00Does Working in Groups Result in Higher Academic Performance?by Joshua Chang, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, Magnolia Regional Health Center
Students often face different study environments and styles when preparing for exams. The debate regarding the benefits of group studying compared to studying alone remains an ongoing discussion. Which ensures students achieve optimum learning (and exam scores)? From personal experience, studying in Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-20848477066703617552023-02-21T14:57:00.003-05:002023-02-21T14:59:04.946-05:00Do NAPLEX or MPJE Preparatory Courses Improve Pass Rates?by Jacey Gossett, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi
As a recent pharmacy school graduate, I took the National Pharmacy Licensure Exam (NAPLEX) and the Multi-state Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam (MPJE). A hot topic of conversation among my classmates is the pass rates on these exams. Being a “good” student who earned A’s and B’s throughout Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-57013051153931592122023-02-13T18:27:00.004-05:002023-02-14T10:36:10.112-05:00Resilience Training in Healthcare to Meet the Needs of Learners and Practitionersby Lori Emory, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, Mississippi State Department of Health Pharmacy
Resilience is the ability to “bounce back” from challenges — to learn and grow from setbacks. An individual’s resilience is built up over the course of their life and is shaped by their actions taken prior to, during, and after difficult and often stressful situations.1,2
Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-86778533645147067092023-02-09T14:47:00.003-05:002023-02-09T14:47:32.400-05:00Teaching Health Professional Students to Manage Patient Biasby Allison Wadlow, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center
Health disparities based on race have been a long-standing problem in the United States. Much light was shed on this matter in recent years prompted by numerous murders of minorities and the Black Lives Matter advocacy movement. It is well known that racial disparities exist within the healthcareStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-37090007243015763382023-01-25T17:03:00.004-05:002023-01-25T17:36:39.050-05:00Professional Identity Formation (PIF) in Health Professions Education: Doing is Different from Beingby Lauren C. McConnell, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, Baptist North Mississippi Hospital
Professional identity formation, or PIF, is the process through which a person becomes a professional — typically from student to practicing professional. The progression of PIF is uniquely individualized and superimposed on each student’s personal identity, values, morals, and beliefs.1 The goal Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.4081161328736123 -125.3410603 61.189398467126381 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-59628721343576403622023-01-16T15:24:00.000-05:002023-01-16T15:24:40.207-05:00Achieving the Promise of Authentic Workplace-Based Assessmentsby Sophie Durham, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, Mississippi State Department of Health Pharmacy
Workplace-based assessments (WBAs) can be intimidating and burdensome for students and evaluators alike; however, these assessments pose an opportunity to use real-time direct observation to provide feedback that supports a learner’s growth and development.1 Unfortunately, studentsStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481031.7207155871233581 -125.3410603 62.876799012876639 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-44200674103561200522022-11-12T15:28:00.005-05:002022-11-18T08:50:33.988-05:00Failure to Fail: Why Teachers Are Reluctant to Fail Learners and What We Can Do About Itby Katelyn Miller, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, St. Dominic Hospital
Failure is success in progress. – Albert Einstein
The word “failure” often evokes a negative connotation, but it is a necessary part of learning and growing. However, when it comes time to address an underperforming trainee, student, or resident, many educators and preceptors find it hard to address and document the Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-10847877704311730792022-11-07T12:37:00.002-05:002022-11-07T12:37:44.204-05:00Gamification to Motivate Studentsby Antoniya R. Holloway, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, Mississippi State Department of Health
Ask anyone in my pharmacy school graduating class, and I believe they would tell you that the most anticipated part of a long therapeutics lecture was the sound of the Kahoot! theme song. Despite how glazed-over our eyes became during medicinal chemistry discussions, my classmates Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-48327065205611792712022-10-10T22:56:00.001-04:002022-11-18T08:51:15.863-05:00Cultivating Cultural Humilityby Amy Ly-Ha, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
Growing up in the Vietnamese culture, whenever I had a minor illness, my parents engaged in the practice of cạo gió, also known as coining. The intent of the practice is to dispel negative energy from a sick individual. Coining involves spreading medicated oil onto the skin and Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-31742921622495060692022-06-25T18:30:00.004-04:002022-11-18T08:51:29.534-05:00Should Feedback be Given Verbally or in Writing?by Mariam M Philip, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, Walgreens Pharmacy
Learners thrive in a safe environment where they can freely express their thoughts and opinions. At the heart of learning is feedback.1 Feedback is critical in the classroom, in clinic, at work … indeed, anywhere learning occurs. It is crucial to knowledge acquisition, patient care, personal development, andStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com02500 North State Street, Jackson, MS31.0474248 -85.87446931.0142433884789952 -121.0307193 61.080606211521008 -50.7182193tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-85378921928859665692022-05-23T12:23:00.002-04:002022-05-23T12:23:44.617-04:00"Blended Learning” Models and Their Effectivenessby Hannah Black, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, Baptist Memorial Health-North Mississippi
Many of us are familiar with the term, “blended learning.” While it is easy to assume that this teaching model simply involves a combination of in-class and online instruction, there are lots of different ways of accomplishing it. Although blended learning models are now commonplace (thank you Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0Jackson, MS, USA32.2987573 -90.18481033.9885234638211529 -125.3410603 60.608991136178844 -55.028560299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-5435208353615461572022-05-04T18:09:00.001-04:002022-05-04T18:09:47.862-04:00Portraying Social Constructs that Influence Health in Patient Cases
by Jewlyus Grigsby PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
One of the most common ways health profession programs assess students’ knowledge is through patient cases intended to mirror real-life practice scenarios. These cases are meant to place students in a “what would you do?” simulation and facilitate the development of their critical Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-2119122767869524722022-04-01T08:51:00.003-04:002022-04-01T08:58:42.254-04:00Cased-based Learning From Two Perspectives: Learner and Teacherby Madison Parker, PharmD, PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Who enjoys being proved wrong or having to learn the hard way? The rhetorical answer is no one! However, in the last couple of months, it has happened to me time and time again. I recently graduated from pharmacy school. I matched for a PGY-1 pharmacy residency at the medical center associated Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-88498534738609173892022-03-25T16:22:00.003-04:002022-03-28T10:47:37.030-04:00Assisting Students with Disabilities During Experiential Educationby George Lamare Haines, PharmD, PGY1 Community Pharmacy Resident, The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
—Pablo Picasso
At times it is hard to see problems that face others. Often, when a problem doesn’t affect a person, they don’t perceive it as a problem or that it exists because Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-22976709942384588102022-03-24T09:28:00.010-04:002022-03-24T09:32:45.691-04:00Should We Adopt a Two-tier Grading System in Health Professions Education? Benefits and Practical Considerationsby Mary Kathryn Vance, PharmD, PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Grades have long been a cornerstone of educational systems, giving students and educators a way to measure the achievement of learning objectives within courses. Grades were first instituted in the 1700s in Europe to assign a rank order among students. By the late 1800s, several American Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-94896493817594792022-03-22T19:14:00.009-04:002022-03-23T11:07:18.173-04:00Backchannel Communication to Improve Instruction and Learningby Claire Calcote, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital
If you are unfamiliar with backchannel communication, it involves using secondary ways to communicate “behind the scenes” of the primary method of communication, like during a lecture presentation. Its use within higher education has grown exceptionally, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-20889177184532646142022-03-03T18:55:00.004-05:002022-03-03T18:55:56.747-05:00Benefits of “Near-Peer” Teachingby Allison Graffeo, PharmD, PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Near-peer teaching involves students learning from more senior peers, individuals who are one or two years ahead of them in school or post-graduate training.1 It is a well-established model used by medical education programs; however, not fully established in pharmacy education. Some educators Stuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11577818.post-75881123395553386642022-03-01T14:31:00.002-05:002022-03-01T14:31:37.345-05:00Best Practices in Preceptor Training and Developmentby Natasha Lewis, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, Mississippi State Department of Health Pharmacy
A preceptor is a teacher who facilitates practice-based learning. They serve as an instructor or coach for students and residents, providing them with support as well as direct instruction that facilitates their professional development. Preceptors practice in a variety of settings andStuart T. Haines, Pharm.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07976789658143589445noreply@blogger.com0