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Take Two Pills and listen to this podcast: teaching and learning in health, medicine, and more! Our goal is to connect innovative teachers in health sciences and provide practical and inspirational teaching advice. If you are teaching or want to teach in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, nutrition, physical or occupational therapy, or other health sciences-Two Pills Podcast is for you! [email protected] twitter: @twopillspodcast

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Two Pills Tips: Classroom Card Games!

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08/20/18 • 5 min

Cards Against Humanity/Apples to Apples Resources: http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/3811 https://insidetheclassroomoutsidethebox.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/apples-to-apples-edu-style/ What: • Word association games • Shared goal by all players to complete a phrase by matching the dealer’s card to a card in their hand to earn points • Everyone has a unique set of cards in their hand, and thus the phrases can vary wildly, depending on the preference of the player. How: • Learners are divided into teams that can range from 4 students per team to 10 or more. • In each round, one player (the ‘judge’) turns over the top prompt card and the others, who each have a hand of 8-10 cards, anonymously throw down a single card in response. • Two sets of cards— a “judge” lays a category word or phrase and participants have to secretly lay a card from their hand that they believe best represents the word/phrase. The judge selects which card was the closest/funniest/most interesting/best. The card that the judge chooses earns a point. Who: • Small or large groups, though smaller teams may be more engaged • Classroom likely most conducive What topics: • Almost any content, usually as a review • Any topic that has clear subcategories/topics • So, for pharmacotherapy of diabetes, the topic card could be “DPP4’s, insulin, GLP-1’s, etc” and then students would have to use adjective/descriptor cards “hypoglycemia, weight gain, nausea, etc” and the best card wins • For heart failure, could use each drug class as a topic card and the descriptor cards could be “hypokalemia, mortality benefit, etc” When/Why: • Goal of this strategy is to provide an immersive active learning strategy for review and association/correlation of complex topics. • Though would take time to set up and print, could be used over and over • Estimated classroom time: 15-20 minutes Other: • This active learning strategy, like many, requires the instructor to be comfortable with a small amount of chaos. Learners typically enjoy this game and become competitive. • To add descriptor cards, could use “NOT cards”-so “NOT hypoglycemia” as a descriptor • Templates available online (see links in show notes)-probably want to print on cardstock for longer-lasting cards

Follow the Yellow Brick Road!

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08/23/18 • 26 min

Interview with Dr. Diana Rangaves! Dr. Diana Rangaves is a pharmacist, philanthropist, and ethics professor turned writer. An accomplished educator, award-winning teacher, and business professional, she uses her powers for good. Diana is a foster mom for PapHavenRescue.org and lives in California with her dogs and pasture pets, in their forever home. She is the author of Embrace Your Excellence: A Psychopharmacology Primer and Mirror to the Soul and Escape into Excellence: Building a Foundation for Honest Decision-Making. References: The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram Resources: The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney Questions? Comments? Recommend someone for an interview? Contact us [email protected] or find us on twitter @twopillspodcast! Highlights (full transcript at www.twopillspodcast.com): My teaching strategies are related to reading apprenticeship. In reading apprenticeship, we use interactive keywords and think aloud's, think pair and share, questions, and we map things. Critical thinking skills are embedded in reading apprenticeship. It is so important that once a student leaves school, they have those tools in the real world. For those of you who are considering a career in Health Sciences, you can change your environment, use your degree for multiple reasons, you are not just boxed in. After teaching for a while, I realized I could be teaching the same few courses forever. After a while, you can't integrate new stuff. I ended up writing two textbooks. They're called “Embrace Your Excellence” and “Escape Into Excellence.” “Escape into Excellence” talks about ethics and how to develop critical-thinking skills. It uses real-life case studies. It takes you from the beginning about what is ethics, what are values, how do we learn our values-all the way full circle to passing and death. How do we stand in silence and honor the people in our lives we care about who are ready to pass? “Embrace Your Excellence” is a psychopharmacology book. It introduces people to mental health, mental health issues, the pharmacology involved, including opiates and hallucinogenics. It adds the holistic piece to it with real life student cases and students writing about their experiences. It helped create a full package that students like. A lot of it was written by students for students. When I wrote, “Escape into Excellence,” we determined that all author royalties would go back to charity. Education is so important. For both “Embrace Your Excellence” and “Escape into Excellence,” all author royalties go back to Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation to support education. The royalties of my children's values book, “The Adventures of Rosie Posie Papillion,” go to pap haven rescue. It's a heart project and labor of love to impact and give back. We had to learn these skills on the fly when we got out, when we read a book, and here is a textbook that schools can use to further that endeavor. One topic was IV therapy. I brought in empty vials and bags and tubing. I gave them a scenario that included stuffed animals like dinosaurs, poodles, and others. Each doll had a flash card around their neck with a scenario. It Incorporated education, pharmacology, and calculations. Each team had a team leader who read the case. Each team member then took one of the questions And explained the answer to the other students. Each team member had a teaching moment. It gives them confidence, practice speaking, and all in a peer environment that was safe. No one was judging them, no one giving them a certain number of points, and it was a very relaxed environment. They were able to do every sensory experience within that one exercise. It is applicable to any topic. Don’t ever be afraid to step into the unknown. Fear is the worst reason in the world to do somethi

BEST OF TWO PILLS PODCAST: The Importance of Investing in Mindfulness and Redbulls!

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12/19/19 • 32 min

Interview with Dr. Vanessa Holtgrave, PsyD, MS
Dr. Holtgrave is a professor of clinical and forensic psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of California. She has extensive experience in psychological assessment and diagnosis. She works closely with psychiatric medical professionals as part of a forensic team, provides consultations, and coordinates patient care with medical professionals in a psychiatric setting. Over the years she’s has worked within the prison system, juvenile detention facilities, and within community mental health. Questions? Comments? Recommend someone for an interview? Contact us [email protected] or find us on twitter @twopillspodcast!
Highlights (full transcript at www.twopillspodcast.com): Forensic psychology is the intersection of mental health and the legal system. There are many branches. It could be police psychology, correctional psychology, and expert witness testimony; there are so many different areas. Clinical psychology is working more in the community where you might be working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. They cross over where you may be working with similar individuals in the correctional setting. It's not really it like CSI like everyone thinks. I really love working with other professionals. On the forensic team, we work with psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, public defenders, judges, case managers, all kinds of different professionals. It's nice to be able to bounce ideas off of each other in a respectful way. It's a focus on how do we get this person help so that they stay out of the justice system? I really wanted to challenge myself after getting my Ph.D. and one of my friends started teaching and said that she needed someone to teach clinical assessment. I thought everyone would be fighting for that class because it's so exciting. I just loved it so much. I think new faculty should invest in Red Bulls. Being a professor does not have to be so dichotomous. You can have high standards for your students, but also be supportive. You also want to make the student experience fun. You don't have to have that be at the sake of standards. I see that that kind of dichotomous approach where you have to be strict with your grading and then can't be supportive or give them additional opportunities. I wish someone had told me that lectures don't have to be perfect. I probably spent 20 to 30 hours on my lecture and then worried about if there would be extra time and I wanted to make sure to include the specific active learning strategies. You can let yourself get too lost in that rabbit hole. I wish someone had told me that they didn't have to be perfect because students will still have their questions about the content and what is most important is that they're learning. Each person has their own coping skills or lack of coping skills. They have their own support system or lack of support system. What a person is going through is not something that you have gone through. Patience, clients, and students, humble me and remind me to be sensitive to the fact that they have their own experiences. Our students are a bunch of superheroes. They balance school with everything else going on in their lives. As faculty and Scholar practitioners, we need to remember that these students are coming from a different place and all need different types of support. It's not being needy or putting in less effort. They just may need a different type of support or level of support. For me, it's about making the time for people in your life. It may be deciding that I'm not going to open my laptop or I'm not going to work from home. It sounds like an anti resolution. I'm going to go hiking with my friends this weekend and I'm going to make the time for it. If I were to describe happiness on a certain day, it comes from those kinds of interactions.

Welcome to Season 2 and Interview with Dr. Jenny Van Amburg!

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10/07/19 • 24 min

Interview with Dr. Jenny Van Amburg!

Two Pills Podcast: Buy-In to Bitmoji!

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10/26/20 • 31 min

Interview with Dr. Meredith White about the fun and function of using Bitmoji in the (virtual) classroom!

Interview with Dr. Taylor Steuber!

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07/09/20 • 15 min

Interview with Dr. Taylor Steuber!
Dr. Taylor Steuber, PharmD, BCPS is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist with the UAB Division of Internal Medicine at Huntsville Hospital. Dr. Steuber joined HSOP in August, 2016. He earned his Pharm.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City at MU in 2014. He went on to pursue a 24-month PGY-1/PGY-2 residency in pharmacotherapy with Indiana University and Butler University in Indianapolis. In his free time he enjoys anything sports or outdoors-related, particularly baseball, golf, fishing, and hiking. His goal is to one day visit all of the Major League Baseball stadiums.
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Two Pills Tips: Peer Evaluations!

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03/14/20 • 7 min

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-02-12-five-ways-to-make-peer-feedback-effective-in-your-classroom

https://www.wwu.edu/teachinghandbook/evaluation_of_learning/peer_review.shtml

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355282/

http://andrewmiesner.wp.drake.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/77/2014/06/Use-student-pharmacist-peer-feedback-during-a-journal-club-in-an-advanced-pharmacy-practice-experience.pdf

Let’s talk assignments. In order to get to higher levels of learning, we need to go beyond multiple choice/true-false. However, what is the increased burden of grading?? Is there a way that we can increase application, evaluation, and synthesis without having hundreds of papers to grade??

A potential solution? peer evaluation.

Peer assessment can be defined as the application of criteria and standards to evaluate and provide feedback on the work of peers or colleagues

In a group project, peer evaluation provides accountability of all members

We all have to give peer feedback in our careers whether providing peer review in manuscripts or presentations, reviewing policies/procedure, etc. We also have to give feedback to peers, other professionals, students, technicians/assistants, etc

Benefits to our students include a requirement for critical thinking and going beyond just saying “great job!” with no actual feedback

In an evaluation of peer assessment in health professions students in Belgium, they found that students tended to grade at the high end of their assessment scale with a narrow range, but found their assessment tool to be helpful in differentiating student contribution in group work

In an Australian study, researchers found that although students tended to give their peers’ assignments higher marks than an expert, the quality of feedback was similar and students overall found it to be valuable

Studies have looked at evaluation from students across different campuses. If have opportunity to evaluate students from a separate campus or university, would be more likely to receive unbiased feedback.

Tips/tricks:

Keeping the process anonymous increases students confidence and comfort in giving feedback to peers

Have to decide written vs face to face. While face to face is valuable for learning to provide feedback in the future, students may prefer written due to the anonymity.

Start small

Try to do in class so they can ask you for help

I like these general recommendations to students: good feedback should be constructive, specific, kind, justified and relevant.

Really great appendix in a 2014 article by Miesner and colleagues (published in Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning) that was given to students as a guide for feedback. Some highlights include:

Feedback is communication from others that presents data to a person about what the others are experiencing and how this is impacting them. The purpose of giving feedback is to give a person insight that they may not see in themselves and provide them with your perception of their strengths and areas of improvement. Some guidelines for feedback—

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Expect the Unexpected with Dr. Michael Neville!

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11/05/18 • 19 min

In his own words, "I laugh when I think back on my view of the world as a young man. I would describe my “purposeful academic journey” like this: Take a stick. Throw it into a stream. Watch where it ends up. I was a kid who thought that those who became valedictorians were just lucky. I barely got into pharmacy school and struggled once I got there, only figuring out what was going on as I was finishing my degree. I just knew I wanted to help people, and so I have."
His prescription for life involves self-care; applying what we preach to our patients to our own lives! Eat well, get outside (with some sunscreen!), and take the extra time in the day to get on your feet and exercise! Sitting is the new smoking in major causes of disease and death in this country so get moving!

Two Pills Tips: Making Rounds More Well-Rounded!

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09/04/18 • 8 min

Resources: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/12/07/peds.2015-3679 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=24004439 This topic is a little different from our didactic-focused interventions. However, for those of us who participate in rounds or any experiential education in patient care, I think it is an important question. When I think about rounds, I think about how beneficial it can be for all participants. The process encourages attendings or faculty to teach, residents to both teach and learn as part of practice, and students to learn. However, I have also seen a less enthusiastic approach to rounds. Sometimes, it is just getting through the morning to move on to discharges, clinic follow up, etc. So, I started thinking-how can we make rounds a more well-rounded experience? Bedside rounds, or family-centered rounds in pediatrics, can be defined as conducting attending rounds, including patient presentations and discussions, in the patient’s room with nursing and family present. If you look around an ICU team (as an example) and consider the amount of salaries standing in a circle (physicians, residents, nurses, pharmacists, case managers, social workers, dieticians, PT/OT, and more)-it would behoove us to make the best use of each professional’s time. Areas of education in rounds include skills such as bedside physical examination teaching, effective communication, and encouragement of trainee independence. A first step to improving the educational experience on rounds is to have a specific plan/road map. Preparation instills confidence in both the teacher and the learner and facilitates the learning process. It allows you to maximize the learning outcomes rather than just repeating the same process day after day. Defining each person’s role on the team has multiple benefits to improving education on rounds. This ensures that each person is involved, breaks down barriers between educator and learner, engages the team, maintains interest, ensures efficient rounds, validates the learner’s input, and allows equal opportunities between learners. Devise a plan beforehand on what can be taught to act as a guide but still be flexible to improvise. No two days of rounds will be the same. Having a plan also allows for good time management and prioritizes educational opportunities to focus on the learner’s needs. I have seen this be successful in a variety of ways. For example, presentations and team goals can be set at the beginning of the week. Each presentation is then planned and topics are decided on, therefore providing clear expectations. Some attendings will choose to review a certain article in the main journal of their expertise. It becomes a group discussion facilitated by the attending and allowing the attending to provide his/her expertise. Some residents have created quizzes based on topics discussed during the week. Other residents may opt to review an OB strip each week or an EKG each week just to provide exposure to the team. If you are able to collaborate with another department, maybe your team visits radiology once weekly, pathology once weekly, or microbiology once weekly. One resident I worked with had a focus on physician wellness and started each day of rounds with DzGratitude Roundsdz where each team member said something that they were grateful for..... Full content available at twopillspodcast.com

Nice to Know vs. Need to Know with Dr. Jeanne Frenzel!

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03/21/19 • 24 min

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Jeanne Frenzel, PharmD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the College of Health Professions at North Dakota State University. In her on words, Dr. Frenzel is a wife, mom, pharmacist, educator, scholar. Loves exploration and adventure. Serious about researching innovative pedagogies for teaching complex pharmacy practice skills to students using technology and simulation.

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