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Table 3 Mapping of the enacted curriculum

From: Mapping and assessment of personal and professional development skills in a pharmacy curriculum

PPD Skills

Example Learning Objectives per the CAPE Educational Outcomes 2013- Domain 4

Example Courses (Course Number)/ Co and Extra-curricular Activities

Select Evidence for Achievement of Learning Objectives based on Students and Curricular Data Sets

Self-awareness

4.1.1 Use of self-awareness to regulate one's own thinking and learning

• IPPEs and APPEs

• PharmD mentoring

• Student advising

• P4 workshop on emotional intelligence

• P4 workshop on interviewing skills

• Baseline/Midpoint/Final Point IPPEs and APPEs Scoring Rubrics (competency based assessment in IPPEs and APPEs)

• Day to day interaction and feedback provided to students

• Twice yearly mentor-mentee meetings using a mentoring plan

• Regular meetings with advisors to track performance

4.1.2 Maintain motivation, attention, and interest during learning and work-related activities

4.1.3 Identify, create, implement, evaluate, and modify plans for personal and professional development for the purpose of individual growth.

4.1.4 Approach tasks with a desire to learn

4.1.5 Demonstrate persistence and flexibility in all situations; engaging in help seeking behavior when appropriate.

4.1.6 Strive for accuracy and precision by displaying a willingness to recognize, correct, and learn from errors.

4.1.7 Use constructive coping strategies to manage stress

4.1.8 Seek personal, professional, or academic support to address personal limitations.

4.1.9 Display positive self-esteem and confidence when working with others.

Leadership

4.2.1. Identify characteristics that reflect leadership versus management.

• PHA 567 - Career Opportunities

• Students Societies: 3 societies available at the school

• Three Voluntary Outreach Clinics

• Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences- required and elective APPEs: PHA 670 - 671 - 672 - 673 - and 650 s

• Workshops

• Documented students learning objectives (SLO) in syllabi of identified courses

• The mission of NAPHASS-one student society- is to cultivate leadership in pharmacy students and create a public image of pharmacists, in the Lebanese communities, as patient care providers and medication use experts.

• Example of Students Learning Objectives from the outreach activities:

- Provide students with the opportunity to practice medicine, nursing and pharmacy in a challenging environment where innovation and the social determinants matter.

• SLOs in the APPEs syllabi

• PharmD students manual

• Effective team building workshop, provided to P4 students by the Outreach and Civic Engagement (OCE) Unit at LAU

4.2.2. Identify the history (e.g., successes and challenges) of a team before implementing changes.

4.2.3. Develop relationships, value diverse opinions, and understand individual strengths and weaknesses to promote teamwork.

4.2.4. Persuasively communicate goals to the team to help build consensus.

4.2.5. Empower team members by actively listening, gathering input or feedback, and fostering collaboration.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

4.3.1. Demonstrate initiative when confronted with challenges.

• PHA 333 - Pharmacy Management

• Example of SLOs documented in the syllabus:

- Evaluate the skills needed for success

- Appraise readiness to become an entrepreneur

- Describe the ability to mesh personal and business goals

- Describe the ability to conceptualize and plan

- Explain the personal, financial and marketing considerations

4.3.2. Develop new ideas and approaches to improve quality or overcome barriers to advance the profession.

4.3.3. Demonstrate creative decision making when confronted with novel problems or challenges.

4.3.4. Assess personal strengths and weaknesses in entrepreneurial skills.

4.3.5. Apply entrepreneurial skills within a simulated entrepreneurial activity.

4.3.6. Conduct a risk-benefit analysis for implementation of an innovative idea or simulated entrepreneurial activity.

Professionalism

4.4.1. Demonstrate altruism, integrity, trustworthiness, flexibility, and respect in all interactions.

• PHA 325 - Pharmacy Practice and Ethics

• PHA 322 - Professional Communication

• PHA 449 - Dispensing and Pharmaceutical Care

• PHA 515- Seminar

• IPPEs and APPEs

• Students Societies - Orientation Sessions -Service on School Committees

• Workshop for P4 students, given by the Outreach and Civic Engagement Unit, entitled: “Hands on Strategies for Building Confident and Collaborative Star Performers”

• Example of SLOs documents in syllabi of identified courses

• IPPEs and APPEs scoring rubrics

• Students societies activities

• Orientation Sessions for IPPEs and APPEs- Checklist

• PharmD student manual

• Documentation of students service on school committees