Technology-Related Programming and the AACP Annual Meeting

Here are a few programs scheduled during the AACP Annual Meeting that may be of special interest to Technology-SIG members.   Are there others?  Let us know!

Saturday, July 14

8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.Opening Session: Teachers Seminar—Connecting Learners and Teachers: Is there an App for that?

Sunday, July 15

1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Experiential Education Section: Interprofessional High-fidelity Simulations in the Curriculum: Two Innovations for the Price of One!This is an interactive workshop highlighting the development and delivery of interprofessional simulations using student healthcare teams to deliver patient care using high-fidelity simulators. Use of interprofessional simulations to fulfill ACPE accreditation standards and IPEC core competencies will be discussed. The program will feature best practices and lessons learned from four institutions with a history of broad-scale delivery of interprofessional simulations. Audience participants will begin to plan and exchange ideas for simulation at their institution.

Monday, July 16

3:30 p.m.– 5:00 p.m.
Chemistry Section: Use of Computer-Aided Visualization in Teaching Medicinal Chemistry PrinciplesThis program will demonstrate the use of full motion videos and online resources as tools in teaching medicinal chemistry.

Tuesday, July 17

6:45 a.m.–7:45 a.m.

Technology in Pharmacy Education & Learning SIG:  Business MeetingThis is the annual business meeting of the Technology in Pharmacy Education and Learning (TiPEL) SIG.

8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.Special Session: Electronic Health Records (EHR): An Opportunity to Expand Interprofessional Education and Advance Case Based LearningEHR provide a single repository for medical information, may decrease errors and increase interprofessional collaboration. Curricular utilization of EHR teaches students to identify relevant information and formulate therapeutic recommendations. Utilization of the EHR with pre-existing cases or simulated patients allows students to analyze, synthesize and evaluate patient care plans. 

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.Special Session: The Magic of E-Portfolios: Enhancing Student Learning and Programmatic AssessmentImplementation of electronic portfolios (e-portfolio) has improved our efficiency to collect direct evidence of student achievement of learning outcomes. How to use this data to inform curricular decision–making, assure program effectiveness, and report compliance with accreditation standards is not as straightforward. This presentation will discuss principles of programmatic assessment and the role of portfolios, the development of a learning e-portfolio, and show how student artifacts can be assessed after-the-fact for programmatic assessment.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.Technology in Pharmacy Education & Learning SIG: Using an Electronic Health Record to Simulate Real-World Experiences in Therapeutics and Skills Laboratory CoursesWe intend to facilitate the development of real-world practice experiences useful for all institutions in therapeutics and pharmacy practice skills laboratory courses. We will demonstrate the use of a simulated electronic health record populated by real (de-identified) patient data for the purpose of developing practice skills in students throughout the curriculum.

Wednesday, July 18

8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.Special Session: Incorporation of High Fidelity Simulation Learning Experiences Within a Didactic and Experiential CurriculumThree schools of pharmacy will describe the successes and challenges associated with the implementation of simulation into their curriculum. Northeastern University and the University of Pittsburgh will present virtual patient (VP) use scenarios, from the development of early learning to advanced medication therapy management skills. California Northstate University will describe a 60-hour introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) involving human patient simulators (HPS) and standardized patients (SP) in a high-stress, low-risk environment.

Tweeting the Annual Meeting

Tweeting at the AACP Annual Meeting, July 14–18, 2012, Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Kissimmee, Florida

#AACPAM12 is the official Twitter hashtag for the annual meeting.  We encourage Twitter users to utilize this hashtag throughout the meeting. 

We offer a few suggestions to make this a better experience for everyone. As always, be respectful with your comments (e-professionalism applies here!) 

When tweeting about the meeting, be sure to include the hashtag: #AACPAM12

  

Suggestions for using Twitter from Pangan Blog ( http://bitly.com/LvLom7 ) and the Pallimed blog ( http://bitly.com/LvN5Qn )

* Announce beginning of sessions and where they are located

* Share resources – Tweet about any resources you discover at the conference; be sure to include the speaker’s or originator’s name (userid) on the tweet.

* Discussion of topics –  If there was a topic or issue brought up at a presentation that you have a burning question about or want to explore more online, you can ask your Twitter community online and include the conference hashtag to extend the discussion to conference attendees.  Include the presenter’s userid and chances are they will jump in the online discussion.

* Jot down notes – Twitter can be used to capture key takeaways and interesting points made by the presentation. Be sure to include the name of the presenter and conference hashtag.  Stay away from tweeting all your notes. If you see that you are getting into some great conversations online as a result of a presentation at the conference, the etiquette is to post a few warnings that  an intense period of tweeting will be going on the next day on such and such topic.  That way people can tune out the tweets for a day if there are too much or prepare to watch what develops.

* Goodwill – Maybe you don’t want to be burdened with writing original posts, but you can still be part of the wave of influence by re-tweeting other people’s great posts. In sharing other people’s posts, you are basically complimenting the other person, which makes the original poster happy, and other people will not think you are a selfish ego-ist who only cares about your own thoughts. Besides social media is essentially about sharing, right?

* Connect with people – for this one, best if you start listening to tweets and tweeting before the conference so you can connect with people who are attending.   Watch the conference hashtag a couple weeks before the event to get ideas on who to reach out to and schedule an in-person meeting with.  Use the conference hashtag to ask who is going.

* Twitter as Conversation Starter - While you are posting about an interesting point, people at the conference and those not at the conference may find that point interesting and may ask you a question and engage you in further discussion.

* Setup tweetups – if you have an interest area you want to get several people’s minds together on, setup a tweetup – in-person meeting that is promoted through Twitter. Tweet asking for suggestions on where to meet. Take Twitter conversations into in-person meetings or tweetups as soon as possible.  Twitter is great for making an initial contact, but if you want the connection to last, you need to distinguish yourself and the easiest way to do that is for you to meet in person.  Similar to reading and researching a travel destination, it is entirely different being there in-person vs. conversing online.  The in-person mode is always the best for making rich connections.

* Photo - Make sure your Twitter photo is recent and not your logo so people can recognize you.

Following the Annual Meeting on Twitter

In the Twitter search box, type in the hashtag “#AACPAM12” and it will provide you with a stream of the Tweets with that hashtag.  Note that you cannot “follow” a hashtag from the Twitter webpage.  You must refresh the browser to see any updates.

TiPEL-SIG Business Meeting at AACP Annual Meeting

The AACP Technology SIG business meeting will be from 6:45 AM - 7:45 AM on Tuesday, July 17 in "Osceola 1-2, Ballroom Level"  at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center.

All SIG members are encouraged to attend.

Pharmacy business apps can boost profits

From Drug Topics is an article on "apps" written by a PGY-1 resident.

This article will help the community pharmacist make better use of business-enhancing apps that can help improve the bottom line.

The usual suspects are listed (Evernote, Dropbox, Calendar) but there's a few that might be new to some readers.

FDA regulators face daunting task as health apps multiply

There's an article in USA Today about the proliferation of health care "apps".  

Last year, the FDA began to lay down the law. The agency released a first draft of guidelines that require mobile apps developers making medical claims to apply for FDA approval for those applications, the same way that new medical devices must be proved safe and effective before they can be sold. But that process can be both time-consuming and expensive

This article might be helpful to remind our students that the FDA doesn't just approve drugs.

Gaming in Pharmacy Education Webinar is Online

The archive of the webinar titled, "Gaming in Pharmacy Education" is now available online at URL:
http://aacp.adobeconnect.com/p4kigkixfzi/


Topic: Gaming in Pharmacy Education
Presenters:


Game Shows (Price is Right, Family Feud, and $100,000 pyramid)
Benjamin Chavez, Pharm.D., BCPP
Assistant Professor
University of Hawaii - Hilo, College of Pharmacy


Online Pharmacy Trivia Game
Michael E. Klepser, Pharm.D., FCCP
Professor of Pharmacy
Ferris State University College of Pharmacy


Second Life
Teresa M. Seefeldt, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy
South Dakota State University


Moderator:
Eric Wombwell, Pharm.D., BCPS
TiPEL SIG Webinar Committee Member
Clinical Assistant Professor – UMKC School of Pharmacy

A Brief Review of 'Video Games and Learning: Teaching and Participatory Culture in the Digital Age'

Book information:
Author: Kurt Squire
Year: 2011
Publisher: Teachers College Press, NY
Pages: 234
Cost: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-8077-5198-5

In 'Video Games and Learning', Kurt Squire, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides an insightful comprehensive overview of contemporary issues relating to educational gaming. In addition, he also shares personal anecdotes of lessons learned from his experiences with games and how games have shaped him as a learner, educator and researcher. Throughout the book, the reader will understand why games should be studied in an educational context, what constitutes a good educational game and how learning occurs in games.

The text is full of detailed examples of the educational use of both commercial games and games developed for specific instructional needs. While the author focuses heavily on the use of games in K-12 education, the concepts presented are applicable to higher and adult education, where developing expertise and 21st century skills are still warranted. Educators and researchers of gaming and/or education would benefit from reading and studying this book. Considering what is expected of our students today in terms of communication, cooperation, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, we need to reflect upon our practices and be thoughtful and creative in our instruction. Games can be a powerful tool that stimulate interest, motivate, and promote learning.

Of note, the author specifically points to personalized medicine as an area of interest for educational games.

“My own next generation of research will explore whether we can partner with scientists doing cutting-edge work in areas such as nanotechnology, epigenetics, personalized medicine, or systems biology to create games that communicate the ideas in their fields to broader publics.”

What other topics in pharmacy education and/or the health sciences could be applied in educational games?