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Team-Based Learning
December 2, 2019November 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…
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Motivational Interviewing in the Classroom
November 4, 2019What 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…
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Altruism, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
November 1, 2019The 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…
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Accountability, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
October 4, 2019Many people may have heard the term ‘Emotional Intelligence’, but few understand its full meaning and application. One misunderstanding is that Emotional Intelligence simply means “being nice”. Another misconception is that Emotional Intelligence is just a term used to describe…
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Delegation, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
September 2, 2019One of the most difficult things to do in life is to delegate to others, especially when you know you are very good at the task. Non-delegators generally believe it is easier and more efficient to complete a task themselves…
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Where do I publish?
August 8, 2019It can be a joy to see your research in print, but also a big headache to get it there. Assuming you’ve executed a decent research plan and generated interesting results, you are now tasked with putting your work into…
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Teamwork and Collaboration, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
August 2, 2019Looking out my office window, it is not uncommon to see skeins of geese flying by. A lot can be learned about teamwork and collaboration from watching geese. Geese fly in a V-formation because the flapping of wings of the…
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Lightening the Cognitive Load
July 11, 2019This year I was approached by a student in my Pharmaceutical Calculations course about posting worked solutions to a problem set. “Answers are listed on the last page,” I said. “But we don’t know if we’re getting to the answers…
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Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, and the Lifelong Colleague Commitment
July 8, 2019Conflict! A word that strikes fear in the hearts of even the most stouthearted among us. Conflict!! An ominous event that elicits an involuntary, white-knuckled, fight-flight response. Conflict!!! A saber-rattling rivalry that ends with an imperious winner and a loser…
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Assessment Review
June 6, 2019On May 20 and 21, 2019, the South Jordan Campus of Roseman University had the opportunity to learn more about assessment review, a key component of the Roseman Six-Point Mastery Learning Model, from two of the university’s founders and a…