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  1. Publishing Case Reports

    June 6, 2022

    By 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.…

  2. Student Engagement

    April 25, 2022

    One 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…

  3. Using Meditation to Combat Stress and Burnout

    January 17, 2022

    Burnout 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,…

  4. Grant Writing, Part Two

    May 6, 2021

    Speakers 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…

  5. 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. …

  6. Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

    November 18, 2020

    To 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…

  7. Getting the Writing Pipeline Flowing

    November 3, 2020

    Pharmacy 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.…

  8. Team-Based Learning

    December 2, 2019

    November 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…

  9. Motivational Interviewing in the Classroom

    November 4, 2019

    What is motivational interviewing (MI)? It was originally developed back in the 1980s as a method to treat addiction. A counselor named Bill Miller discovered that patients’ openness to behavior change depended on how they were spoken to by a…

  10. Altruism, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment

    November 1, 2019

    The 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…