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This book was actually given to me last year and I have found it extremely helpful for many topics. I was able to find the chapter on teaching in large classes online - the link provided. This chapter is nice in that it explains how to implement different active learning strategies into a classroom. This book breaks down strategies into low-, medium-, and high-threshold activities. Additionally, it provides techniques for non technology-enhanced classrooms as well as those with more technical capabilities. From the Book: Pharmacy Education: What Matters in Learning and Teaching is an essential resource for any pharmacy faculty member. More than a narration of the philosophical aspects of teaching and personal perspectives on life as a faculty member, it explores 'what matters", "why it matters", and "how to apply" the matter to teaching, learning, and assessment in pharmacy education.

This document written by ACPE provides guidelines for the development and oversight of pharmacy education programs. The most recent revision of standards occurred in 2007, and are set to be reviewed in the 2013-2014 academic year. There are six categories of standards which provide the institution, student, faculty member, and staff guidelines for successful administration of a Doctor of Pharmacy program. The standard of mission, planning, and evaluation ensures that a school has mission and goals relevant to the vision of pharmacy practice to serve the needs of society. The standard of organization and administration includes recommendations for the internal and external functions of the school to be harmonious with their mission and goals. The standards for curriculum ensure that a thorough foundation of coursework is provided for a student to "contribute to the profession of pharmacy thoughout their career". The standards for students ensures that the school has adequate resources to support their education, where as standards for faculty and staff ensure the school has fair and equitable resources to attract and retain faculty. The standards for facilities and resources ensures an appropriate environment for a high quality education is offered.

ACPE Guidelines Draft 2016

This portion of the ASHP website offers a wealth of information related to the standards and accreditation of all pharmacy residency programs. General information is offered as well as specific information related to the different PGY-1 programs (pharmacy practice, community pharmacy, and managed care) and the wide variety of PGY-2 residency programs. This site is the end all be all for anyone needing information related to the regulations within pharmacy residency programs.

While this article does not relate directly to being a preceptor, it describes the success of a model of experiential learning within pharmacy- layered learner model. This model mirrors the medical team model with a pharmacy "attending" down to pharmacy students. It provides a way to get students more involved in direct patient care during your rotation. In the study, a community hospital was able to accept more students with this model and assign a small group of patients to each. Students were able to serve as pharmacist extenders by obtaining medication histories and providing patient education. This model allowed an expansion of comprehensive pharmacy services to numerous patients that would not have been otherwise reached. There was an improvement in HCAHPS scores within the "communication of medication" domain, an increase in patient interventions, and allowed for an expansion of the discharge prescription program. By utilizing the concepts of more direct patient care, preceptors are able to provide valuable opportunities to students and improve patient care.

This is an article written by three faculty members from the school of pharmacy assessing the outcome of an IPPE course by Kirkpatrick's 4 levels of evaluation. This gives us an example on how to apply these principles of evaluation in assessing pharmacy education.

A lot of helpful articles specifically for pharmacy education!

This article is in the context of medicine. The author defines need and also outlines methods of needs assessment which I thought were helpful when thinking of ways to identify where the need is. It can be very easily applied to pharmacy because many of the methods that she outlines are a form of what is done in pharmacy as well.

Article about how the Kirkpatrick evaluation method can be applied to a student research program.

This article is one that relates case based teaching specifically to the pharmacy curriculum. The article and methods it describes were performed in a pharmacy school in Portugal, but I believe the principles can be applied universally.

This document serves as an official guide for the implementation and maintenance of all CPE programs. Those wishing to offer CPE programs for credit will need to seek accreditation, which this document provides a guide for as well.

Review article from The American Journal of Pharmacy Education Relates to pharmacy students . Students who do not succeed as well often have several things in common. They do not monitor their learning and are not sure what they do and do not know before an exam. They spend inordinate amounts of time reviewing stuff they already know but not enough time studying on what they do not know. Lastly, they do not know if their study strategies are efficient until after the exam is done. Another interesting article to show the importance of metacognition to make the learning process your own.

Very interesting article about the use of storytelling in pharmacy practice to help educate and prevent medication errors

Great perspective for a pharmacy resident in a complicated and challenging role

Great guidance and exercises to read through on preceptorship

Great overview for needs assessments specific to the medical community. Although it is focused on medical residents, the commentary definitely applies to the field of pharmacy - especially for those co-precepting or precepting students.

Dr. Austin's research article on how the pharmacists inventory of learning styles was created. Definitely an interesting read to know how he went about developing a pharmacy specific learning style survey!

The experiential education directors at all accredited pharmacy schools were contacted to determine what the greatest challenges are that face their programs

This website, from the University of Arizona, is a great resource for preceptors. It has everything from a sample syllabus and rotation calendar to helpful hints for preceptors. Also contains links to workshops about precepting.