Pharmacy Education Unit
As a result of the expansion of teaching and learning across the Faculty, as well as changes to the existing and projected educational needs of our graduates, the Pharmacy Education Unit – the first in Australia – was established in the Faculty in 2005. The Unit’s goal is to maintain and build on the Faculty’s significant achievements of excellence and innovation in learning and teaching, ensuring it retains its pioneering role in pharmacy education research, development and practice.
Staff
The Unit team consists of:
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Director |
Jim Woulfe Educational Designer |
Lindsay Walker Project Officer |
Annual Report
The Pharmacy Education Unit's latest Annual Report is available here
Unit Objectives
Specifically, the objectives of the Pharmacy Education Unit are to:
- Initiate and manage a systematic process of curriculum review
- Conduct pharmacy education research, especially in the use of alternative and innovative modes of education delivery
- Assist staff in applying for funding for education research
- Support distance learning and off-campus activities
- Initiate, guide and support the Faculty in the use of educational information and communication technology tools, as well as multimedia, online and other flexible learning approaches
- Consolidate and help implement collaborative learning and teaching programs
- Implement a professional development program for Faculty staff
Current Activities
The Pharmacy Education Unit is currently involved in the following educational development projects:
- Demonstrator video project. Development of digital videos to promote blended learning in prac class teaching.
- Replacing a reflective diary assignment with a blog - BPharm & MPharm trial
- MPharm demographic study
- Collaborative assignments using a wiki - formal trial in second-year MPharm
- Virtual clinical placement project (Strategic eLearning Projects - 200 hours of educational developer/project management from a FOLT staff member) - development of website to support students preparing for hospital pharmacy placement
- PBL for rural-based students - continuation of curriculum development trial
- InterProfessional Learning (IPL) in Problem Based Learning (PBL) - collaboration with Medicine (curriculum development trial)
- Pharmacy student perceptions of plagiarism - an investigation across all four years of the BPharm - collaboration with the Learning Centre
- Pharmacy student approaches to learning - an investigation across all four years of the BPharm
- Peer evaluation trial - an investigation of the use of anonymous peer evaluation in a fourth-year Unit of Study
- Curriculum database - this software should provide staff and students the ability to easily view all the units currently being offered. Staff will be able to access teaching materials from previous years as well as be able to highlight links between units to students. This tool should also enable us to identify excessive duplication as well as gaps in the curricula
Support
The Pharmacy Education Unit provides Professional Development support through:
- PBL Tutor Training
- Tutor/Lab Demonstrator Training
- Workshops on Writing MCQs
- Individual Staff Consulatation
The Pharmacy Education Unit provides support for staff undertaking programs offered by the Institute for Teaching and Learning such as:
Development Program for Research Higher Degree Supervision
This program can be completed online at your own pace or as a unit of study within the Master of Education degree.
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Principles & Practice of University Teaching and Learning (3-day Program)
The program provides a basic introduction to higher education teaching and learning principles, and is a pre-requisite for the Graduate Certificate.
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Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education)
The GradCert is a 1 year postgraduate qualification in learning and teaching in higher education. It requires completion of 4 units of study (2 per semester).
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