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 behaviours and attitudes) on practicum through the creation of an accessible, self-paced remediation program (2024).
- Implement and deliver BPSc Yr4 PHAR courses and graduate the first BPSc program class. Follow this with a review of program policies and procedures, updates as required, as well as reviewing the first 4 years of the program and identifying potential curriculum gaps or areas of improvement (2024/2025).
- 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 (April 2023). Initial Hybrid Learning Activity (ALA) launched (Sep 2023). 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.