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Publishing Case Reports
June 6, 2022By their nature, case reports are very compelling to the enquiring mind—almost like the gossip columns of the medical literature. Like gossip columns, case reports draw fascinating new connections using a litany of supporting data and observations, including photographic evidence.…
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Student Engagement
April 25, 2022One frustration of teaching is when students don’t engage in activities that could improve their learning. The writer Max Leon Forman was credited with the quote “Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries…
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Grant Writing, Part Two
May 6, 2021Speakers to College of Pharmacy faculty on 26 April 2021 shared some practical aspects of applying for grants at 91探花. Finding Grants The first speaker was Sonia Jones, Roseman’s Director of Grants Administration. She pointed out that there is…
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Grant Writing, Part One
December 14, 2020“Grant writing is like trying to sell a used car to a group of used car salesmen.” This was the evocative, but apt, analogy used by Dr. Jon Sprague in his Zoom presentation to pharmacy faculty on December 3, 2020. …
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
November 18, 2020To one degree or another, all faculty have leadership responsibilities, whether that means classroom management, research supervision, or committee leadership. In a presentation given on November 11, 2020, Dr. Helen Park, Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs in the…
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Getting the Writing Pipeline Flowing
November 3, 2020Pharmacy writers seeking to improve their scholarly writing may have heard of the ever-expanding writing sprint called the #RXWritingChallenge. The #RXWritingChallenge is a 14-day challenge designed to encourage participants to dedicate 30 minutes a day, Monday through Friday, to writing.…
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Team-Based Learning
December 2, 2019November 2019 brought a visit from Dr. Parto Khansari to the Roseman College of Pharmacy, who spoke about methods for facilitating team-based learning. At their best, team-based activities promote constructivist learning by students, helping them understand content more deeply, connect…
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Altruism, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
November 1, 2019The story is told of three robins who flew into a yard like fighter pilots, wingtips touching as they landed under a Lilac bush. One bird stayed half-hidden under the bush while the other two hopped up on a bird…
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Teamwork and Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
August 2, 2019Looking out my office window, it is not uncommon to see skeins of geese flying by. A lot can be learned about teamwork and collaboration from watching geese. Geese fly in a V-formation because the flapping of wings of the…
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Lightening the Cognitive Load
July 11, 2019This year I was approached by a student in my Pharmaceutical Calculations course about posting worked solutions to a problem set. “Answers are listed on the last page,” I said. “But we don’t know if we’re getting to the answers…