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Effective Teaching and Learning Strategies
Author(s) -
Brandt Barbara F.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pharmacotherapy: the journal of human pharmacology and drug therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.227
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1875-9114
pISSN - 0277-0008
DOI - 10.1592/phco.20.16.307s.35004
Subject(s) - pharmacy , accreditation , active learning (machine learning) , pharmacist , pharmacy practice , medical education , pharmacy education , teaching and learning center , experiential learning , health care , medicine , higher education , psychology , teaching method , pedagogy , political science , nursing , computer science , law , artificial intelligence
Over the past decade, leaders in pharmacy education and the profession in the United States focused on responding to the role of the pharmacist in the rapidly changing health care environment. This response included moving to the Doctor of Pharmacy as the entry‐level degree in the profession. Less understood and often overlooked are pharmacy's responses to equally dramatic changes in the national higher education environment. One trend in higher education is the use of active teaching and learning methodologies, many of which are based on cognitive science research on human learning. The primary purpose of this paper is to focus on teaching and learning by describing the philosophy and policy changes of the new American Council on Pharmaceutical Education accreditation standards advocating active teaching and learning strategies, by discussing the implications for pharmacy faculty teaching roles and responsibilities, and by providing examples of active teaching and learning strategies and relevant literature embedded in the standards.