University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, 40536, USA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2011 Aug 10;75(6):117. doi: 10.5688/ajpe756117.
To create and implement a required module that addresses both the clinical and ethical issues surrounding the use of lethal injection as a means of capital punishment.
As a component of a pharmacotherapeutics module in toxicology, pharmacy students were introduced to ethical and clinical considerations and controversies with the use of drugs as a means of capital punishment. Basic information was provided on the history of capital punishment and the origins of lethal injection. Pharmacotherapeutic limitations and challenges were presented in the context of clinical and ethical dilemmas.
Instructed material was assessed using block course examinations that had both objective and subjective components. Students were asked to synthesize information by both purposing a lethal injection reversal protocol and by acting as consults in the fictional design of more effective lethal injection protocols. Students provided formative and summative evaluations of the instruction through regular student liaison meetings and summative course evaluations.
Lethal injection as a means of capital punishment in the United States is a controversial and ethically challenging topic on which pharmacists may be consulted and therefore should be knowledgeable about. Students positively evaluated this lethal injection module, which covered multiple clinical and ethical issues.
创建并实施一个必需的模块,以解决围绕使用注射死刑作为死刑执行方式的临床和伦理问题。
作为毒理学中药物治疗学模块的一部分,向药学专业的学生介绍了将药物作为死刑执行方式的使用所涉及的伦理和临床方面的考虑和争议。提供了有关死刑历史和注射死刑起源的基本信息。在临床和伦理困境的背景下,介绍了药物治疗的局限性和挑战。
通过既有客观题又有主观题的整门课程考试来评估所教授的内容。学生被要求通过提出注射死刑逆转方案并作为咨询者参与更有效的注射死刑方案的虚构设计,来综合信息。学生通过定期的学生联络会议和课程总结评估,对教学提供形成性和总结性评价。
在美国,注射死刑作为死刑执行方式是一个有争议且具有伦理挑战性的话题,药剂师可能会被咨询到相关内容,因此应该对此有所了解。学生对涵盖了多个临床和伦理问题的注射死刑模块给予了积极评价。