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What Does an Instructional Designer Do?

By Julie Thomas and Shane Ryan There are various definitions of instructional design. Richey, Fields, and Foxon (2001) specify four roles for the instructional designer: analyst, evaluator, e-learning specialist, and project manager. According to Kumar and Ritzhaupt (2017) Instructional Designers in higher education settings primarily serve faculty in their roles, but also perceive students as their final audience. Instructional…

Clinical Teaching Best Practices

Brown Bag Lunch Panel Discussion Please bring your lunch and join the HSC Curriculum Innovation Collaborative for a Panel Discussion. Learn what strategies, methods, and practices these accomplished clinical educators use to engage students during clinical experiences. How do they assess student learning? What are some best…

U Matter, We Care

At UF Every Gator Counts. U Matter, We Care serves as UF’s umbrella program for UF’s caring culture and provides students in distress with support and coordination of the wide variety of appropriate resources.  Families, faculty and students can contact umatter@ufl.edu seven days a week for assistance for students…

Examplify iPad App Update

A new version of Examplify for iPad is available in the App store today. Version 2.7 includes a number of fixes for compatibility issues with iOS 11. While this version improves our support of iOS 11, there is one remaining issue that you should be aware of. At this time,…

Spotlight on Teaching Innovations

Please bring your lunch and join the HSC Curriculum Innovation Collaborative for a Spotlight on Teaching Innovations. May 16, 12 PM – 2 PM Download Spotlight on Teaching Innovations Program Locations: This event will utilize interactive video conferencing technology to actively include participants at sites…

PharmD Career Development Collaborations Canvas Site Access

The professionalism committee recently developed a new Canvas site titled the PharmD Career Development Collaborations.  This site has been established to provide students information in preparing for job searches, applying for residencies, or searching for other opportunities such as internships. Information includes a large collection of tips, links, and examples…

Interprofessional Collaboration

Our innovative curriculum focuses on team-based, patient-centered care. In year 1, students begin learning how to collaborate with other health professionals by participating in Putting Families First. This program is coordinated by the UF Health Science Center and has received a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation award. Across years 2 and…

Our Educational Philosophy

To empower students to be caring medication therapy experts and effective members of the interprofessional team, we provide a strong educational foundation in the biomedical, pharmaceutical, social and administrative, and clinical sciences. We deliver an organized, sequential curriculum that instills an evidence-based approach to problem-solving and fosters the development…

The Patient Care Process

Case-based learning activities, skills lab activities, and interprofessional learning activities prepare students to use a patient-centered approach in collaboration with other health professionals in order to optimize patient health and medication outcomes. This is accomplished by learning the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process. Students are introduced to this process at the…

Technology Enhanced Active Learning

UF College of Pharmacy classroom learning.The state-of-art design of our active learning spaces supports our innovative curriculum to promote…