Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, Richmond, Virginia.
Office of Learning Innovation & Student Success, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2017 Oct;81(8):5953. doi: 10.5688/ajpe5953.
To describe the development of a pharmacognosy course that uses a combination of didactic teaching, team-based projects, and practicum laboratory practice. A course titled "Pharmacognosy" was developed by applying a three-tier teaching methodology: in the classroom, the basic concepts and principles were introduced in a didactic manner; outside the classroom, students worked in teams and each team created an independent literature-based research project that was submitted as a poster presentation; in the pharmacy practicum laboratory, students worked individually and conducted a quality control experiment comprised of a quantitative analysis of an herbal product. During the seven-year course implementation, 1091 first-year PharmD students participated in the course. Their performance was consistently satisfactory. On average, 30% of students in each class received a grade of "A" and teams received a "B" and above on their projects. The pharmacognosy course, equipped with concurrent teaching methods, implemented with a group research project, and reinforced by practicum laboratory experience, has reached the original goal of introducing a classical topic in an updated and contemporary fashion to meet the requirement of integrated pharmacy education and practice.
描述一门药理学课程的发展，该课程结合了讲授式教学、团队项目和实习实验室实践。一门名为“药理学”的课程是通过应用三层教学方法开发的：在课堂上，以讲授的方式介绍基本概念和原则；在课堂外，学生以团队合作的方式工作，每个团队都创建一个独立的基于文献的研究项目，并以海报展示的形式提交；在药学实习实验室中，学生独立进行一项质量控制实验，包括对草药产品进行定量分析。在七年的课程实施过程中，有 1091 名一年级药学博士学生参加了该课程。他们的表现一直令人满意。平均而言，每个班级中有 30%的学生获得“A”等成绩，团队的项目也获得了“B”及以上的成绩。该药理学课程配备了同步教学方法，实施了团队研究项目，并通过实习实验室经验加以强化，成功实现了以更新和现代的方式介绍经典主题的初衷，以满足综合药学教育和实践的要求。
