Core Area
Education
Strategic Area
Innovation and evolution in curriculum and instruction to enhance outcomes, equity, and flexibility
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Academic portfolio to support programs in their curriculum review and refinement exercises, notably in the Entry-to-Practice PharmD and Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2025).
- Entry-to-Practice PharmD program to better understand the use of AI and how it will affect how program students’ learning and examination experiences (2023 and ongoing).
- Entry-to-Practice PharmD program to review current elective pilots for formal approval into the academic calendar (e.g., PHRM 300D Primary Care Pharmacy Practice).
- Entry-to-Practice PharmD program to re-examine educational leadership roles and descriptions (2025).
- Entry-to-Practice PharmD program to review Committee Terms of Reference, including voting status of theme leaders.
- Office of Experiential Education to develop, implement, and evaluate a formal, consistent and effective approach to remediate students experiencing academic challenges (i.e., knowledge, skills, and/or professional behaviors and attitudes) on practicum through the creation of an accessible, self-paced remediation program (2024).
- Implement a new hybrid blended-learning model within the E2P PharmD program.
- Enhance the educational value of assessment by renewed emphasis on assessment for learning (2024). Provide best practice guides and the evidential base for the needed changes to the assessment systems of the Faculty education programs.
Achieved Goals
- Awarded $72,000 Teaching, Learning, Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for year 1 of a two year project Hybrid Learning in the Pharmacy Program (HIPP) to support the development of a more permanent hybrid design for the Entry-to-Practice PharmD Program (Apr 2023). Initial Hybrid Learning Activity (ALA) launched (Sep 2023) and two more in spring 2024. The HIPP project was awarded $120,000 in year 2 (2024).
- Awarded $10,000 per year through the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Fellowship program with Robert Pammett as faculty fellow to support the development of a UDL focused curricula in the Faculty (summer 2023); Paolo Tchen was chosen as the 2024 UDL fellow (2024).
- SPIIF fund approved project to support Minor Ailment Prescribing project to integrate the expanded scope of training into the Entry-to-Practice PharmD curriculum (May 2023); Task Force initiated (June 2023); report delivered Feb 2024.
- Implemented BPSc Yr4 PHAR courses and graduated the first BPSc program class (2024).
- Initiated review of program policies and procedures, as well as the first 4 years of the program to identify potential curricular gaps or areas for improvement (2024/2025).
- Initiated rural elective in the Entry-to-Practice PharmD program (summer 2024).
- SPIIF fund approved "GENRx: Leveraging generative AI technology to enhance virtual patient consultations for pharmacy students" by Jamie Yuen and Fong Chan—awarded $15,000. The project will explore how to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to enable simulated patient consultations for pharmacy students to practice history taking and documentation, promote active learning and engagement (April 2024).
- SPIIF fund approved "Queer Eye for Pharm Sci: Supporting Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Integration into Pharmacy Programs" by Tim Lim—awarded $10,000. This project will encompass a two-year professional development endeavour which delivers sequential workshops and related resources to educators of training programs to build capacity in training related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE) (April 2024).
- Awarded $26,798 through the Teaching, Learning, Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for year 1 of a two year project Remediation Program for Students Experiencing Academic Challenges during Practicum in the Entry-to-Practice PharmD Program (Apr 2023). The project was awarded $13,306 in year 2 (2024).
- Awarded $30,000 through the Teaching, Learning, Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for year 1 of a two year project IMPPaCT Project – Implementing Pharmacy Point of Care Testing Project (April 2023). The project was awarded $19,983 in year 2 (2024).
- Awarded $38,716 through the Teaching, Learning, Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for Statistics Bakers: a Recipe Box for Biostatistics and Critical Appraisal Courses at The University of British Columbia (April 2024).
- Awarded $30,000 through the Teaching, Learning, Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for The BRAIN Project – Building Resources and Accessibility in Neurology for Practical Learning (April 2024).
- Awarded $10,000 through the Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund for "Accessibility in innovative health pedagogy: electronic health records in teaching and learning (The aEHR project)" (April 2024).