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Consedine, Nathan S.; Yu, Tzu-Chieh; Windsor, John A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
Given global demand on health workforces, understanding student enrollment motivations are critical. Prior studies have concentrated on variation in career and lifestyle values; the current work evaluated the importance of disgust sensitivity in the prediction of health career interests. We argue that emotional proclivities may be important and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Nursing, Nursing Education, Pharmacy
Fierke, Kerry K. – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2014
The University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy is nationally recognized for its leadership curriculum. Despite the College's success in developing student leaders, an overall guiding leadership philosophy within the College has not been specifically articulated. To begin the process of developing a shared leadership vision, a democratic,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, College Environment, Strategic Planning, Participative Decision Making
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Persky, Adam M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
The "flipped" classroom model, including such approaches as team-based learning (TBL), stresses pre-class preparation. For three years in a pharmacokinetics course within a pharmacy curriculum, students had the choice of using reading material or a fully animated module to prepare for class. Qualitative methods were used to analyze…
Descriptors: Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education, Reading Materials, Animation
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Marks, Pia Zeni; Jennings, Brad; Farrell, Barbara; Kennie-Kaulbach, Natalie; Jorgenson, Derek; Sharpe, Jane Pearson; Waite, Nancy – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2014
The convenience and flexibility of online learning clearly make it an attractive option for learners in professional development contexts. There is less clarity, however, about how it fares as a vehicle for enabling the applied, practice-oriented outcomes typically associated with professional development learning. This paper presents a case study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Professional Continuing Education, Online Courses, Pharmaceutical Education
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Radford, Andrea; Slifkin, Rebecca; King, Jennifer; Lampman, Michelle; Richardson, Indira; Rutledge, Steve – Journal of Rural Health, 2011
Purpose: To document sole community pharmacists' involvement with other local health care organizations, these pharmacies' current financial status, and to determine whether financial position was associated with the provision of pharmacy services to other local health care providers. Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with…
Descriptors: Health Services, Pharmacy, Correlation, Economic Factors
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Lloyd, Charlie – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2013
Background: A stigma is a long-lasting mark of social disgrace that has a profound effect on interactions between the stigmatized and the unstigmatized. Factors governing the extent of stigmatization attached to an individual include the perceived danger posed by that person and the extent to which she/he is seen as being to blame for the stigma.…
Descriptors: Specialists, Drug Use, Social Bias, Negative Attitudes
Stolz, Ingo Stephan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research shows that too few transnational corporations (TNCs) have the organizational capacity to manage corporate citizenship. Evidence exists that ever more TNCs adopt programs of corporate citizenship development in order to increase this capacity. However, both in academic and practical literature, there is a general lack of a strategic…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, International Organizations, Corporations, Social Responsibility
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Nazri, Maisarah Mohd; Samat, Farah D.; Kavanagh, Pierce V.; Walsh, John J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
Red yeast rice, produced by fermenting the fungus, "Monascus purpureus", on rice ("Oryza sativa" L. gramineae), is commonly used as a dietary supplement. It contains lovastatin, a member of the statin family of compounds, and is licensed for use as a cholesterol-lowering agent. This experiment involves the isolation and structure elucidation of…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Organic Chemistry, Food, Science Instruction
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Nishita, Christy; Cardazone, Gina; Uehara, Denise Lea; Tom, Tammy – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
The Hawai'i Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment was a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of a participant-driven, multicomponent intervention on 190 employed adults with diabetes, 36% of whom were Asian and 35% of whom were Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. A no treatment concurrent control group was used, and…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Adults, Health Personnel, Pharmacy
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Donnelly, Amy; Shah, Smita; Bosnic-Anticevich, Sinthia – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objectives: The aim of this study was: (1) to investigate the feasibility of incorporating the Triple A programme into the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum; (2) to compare the effect of the Triple A programme versus problem-based learning methods on the asthma knowledge of final-year pharmacy students and their perceived confidence in dealing…
Descriptors: Intervention, Undergraduate Study, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education
Alkhateeb, Fadi M.; Latif, David A.; Adkins, Rachel – Online Submission, 2013
Schools and colleges of pharmacy in the United States have struggled over the past several decades with identifying a consistent title for the broad body of knowledge related to the social, economic, behavioral, and administrative aspects of pharmacy. This paper examines the educational background and professional experience of those teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education, Pharmacology
Wilcox-Patterson, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The recent trend toward patients participating in their own healthcare has opened up numerous opportunities for computing research. This dissertation focuses on how technology can foster this participation, through user interfaces to effectively communicate personal health status and care progress to hospital patients. I first characterize the…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Patients, Health Services, Computer Mediated Communication
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Ellis, Robert A.; Bliuc, Ana-Maria; Goodyear, Peter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
This article reports on research into the student experience of enquiry in two tasks in a university pharmacy course. Students were required to investigate through a field trip how a community pharmacy operated to meet customer needs and the requirements of the Health System in which it operated. Students were also required to investigate…
Descriptors: Evidence, Field Trips, Student Experience, Pharmaceutical Education
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Kettis, Asa; Ring, Lena; Gustavsson, Maria; Wallman, Andy – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
Placements have the potential to contribute more effectively to the quality of higher education. The aim of this article is to discuss how placements can be made more worthwhile for individual students, while also contributing to the overall quality of teaching and learning at HEIs as well as to the development of workplace cultures that are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Workplace Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
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Kovacs, Pamela J.; Perkins, Nathan; Nuschke, Elizabeth; Carroll, Norman – Health & Social Work, 2012
Medicare Part D was enacted to help elderly and disabled individuals pay for prescription drugs, but it was structured with a gap providing no coverage in 2010 between $2,830 and $6,440. Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are especially likely to be affected due to high costs of dialysis-related drugs and the importance of adherence for…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Dietetics, Social Work, Patients
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