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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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Using Meditation to Combat Stress and Burnout
January 17, 2022Burnout and the importance of wellbeing have become hot topics over the past few years, even though these concepts are not new to healthcare workers and students. With COVID-19, the rise of burnout in healthcare workers has flooded the media,…
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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 Roseman University. 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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Are student evaluations of teaching (SETs) biased?
March 9, 2020Around the proverbial water cooler of many colleges and universities, you will often hear faculty discussing their student evaluations of teaching (SETs). Faculty may feel that SETs do not adequately represent the quality of their teaching, and in some aspects,…
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Involving Students in Research
February 10, 2020Roseman pharmacy students often begin the program without any sort of research experience. Nonetheless, research experience is a selling point for those seeking residencies, which are becoming as desirable as they are competitive to obtain. This has led to extensive…
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Writing Good Assessment Questions
January 7, 2020One Friday I was approached by a teacher from another institution who asked me how things were going. When I told him I’d just gotten out of a somewhat stressful assessment, he nodded understandingly and replied that he had heard…