The type of pharmacy found in traditional hospitals, as well as ambulatory care clinics, university and academic health centers, long-term care settings, etc. Regardless of the setting, the health system pharmacist serves in the role of medication expert on a team of health care providers. Within some settings, health system pharmacists might also assume an administrative role that encompasses additional managerial, organization, financial, etc. duties.
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Collaborative Instructional Design Strategies in an Online Health Systems Pharmacy Degree Program
Bethany Simunich (Kent State University, USA), Katie Asaro (Kent State University, USA), and Nicole Yoder (Kent State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5092-2.ch002
Abstract
This case study describes both the process and outcome for instructional design strategies used in the design and development of a fully online Health-System Pharmacy Administration (HSPA) M.S. degree program. The development of this online degree program was a partnership between two Midwest higher education institutions: a public research university (PRU) and an interprofessional health sciences university (HSU). The PRU had instructional designers experienced with creating fully-online graduate degree programs, while the HSU had knowledgeable faculty, staff, and administrators associated with the HSPA program. Instructional designers from the public research university designed the courses collaboratively with HSPA instructors, most of whom were health care professionals with minimal background in online teaching strategies. The instructional designers created an enhanced design process that infused the collaboration with faculty development in online teaching, as well as some amount of technology training for the Learning Management System used in the HSPA program.