Moreover, health professional educators have specific needs to integrate knowledge from a range of primary disciplines, including chemistry, physiology, mathematics, and statistics. 10, 11 Pharmacology is one of several health science disciplines in which the explosion of biomedical knowledge troubles curriculum designers and educators. In biological sciences, for example, core concepts provide focus on what is important and encourage depth in the face of exponential growth in content. Concept inventories-valid and reliable tools to assess the attainment of core concepts-can be developed to assess and evaluate these conceptual curricula. Disciplines such as psychology 2, 3 information technology/cybersecurity 4 dietetics 5 biology, 6microbiology, 7, 8 and mathematics 9 have shown those core concepts can provide disciplines with evidence-based foundations for conceptual curricula. The strides made by physics educators, and more recently across a range of other disciplines, have yet to be made in the discipline of pharmacology.Ī consensus list of core concepts could advance pharmacology education in a number of ways. Well-documented gains in students’ deep understanding of core physics concepts, as well as in educators’ ability to promote and assess that learning, have been among the true success stories of higher education reform. Since then, dedicated scholarly efforts to improve conceptual learning have transformed physics education internationally. 1 demonstrated that even the best-prepared fourth-year physics majors at elite US institutions were unable to apply key concepts. In the early 1990s, physics educators were astonished to discover the low level of conceptual understanding of their graduates. We anticipate that these resources will advance further collaboration across the international pharmacology education community to improve curricula, teaching, assessment, and learning. The unpacking and articulation of these core concepts will also inform the development of a pharmacology concept inventory. These twenty core concepts, along with their respective definitions and sub-concepts, can provide pharmacology educators with a resource to guide the development of new curricula and the evaluation of existing curricula. Next, sub-concepts were established for each core concept. First, a one-sentence definition was developed for each core concept. Expert working groups of three to seven educators were formed to unpack concepts within specific conceptual groupings: what the body does to the drug (pharmacokinetics) what the drug does to the body (pharmacodynamics) and system integration and modification of drug–response. In the current study, CC-PEG used established methodologies to define each concept and then unpack its key components. The Core Concepts in Pharmacology Expert Group (CC-PEG) from Australia and New Zealand recently identified a set of core concepts of pharmacology education as a first step toward developing a concept inventory-a valid and reliable tool to assess learner attainment of concepts. The text is up-to-date and references abound … All in all, those with an interest in the subject of medical anthropology - especially in the African setting, whether observers, planners or teachers can expect to find much value in this book.Pharmacology education currently lacks a research-based consensus on which core concepts all graduates should know and understand, as well as a valid and reliable means to assess core conceptual learning. The illustrations are selected well, and in themselves a great reflection of practical social experience. 'The author's work, which expands over a period of twenty-five years, presents a unique style of anthropology of social experience … The student of anthropology and other readers not familiar with the African culture would find this an excellent piece of work. Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize 1997 for books on African Anthropology published during 1997.Based on 25 years' fieldwork, tracing change, continuities in suffering and solutions - from impotence to AIDS, divination to pharmaceuticals.Inspired by American philospher John Dewey, it combines a pragmatic theory of knowledge with a cultural analysis of personhood.Offers an unusually open-ended approach to the classical anthropological topic of misfortune, stressing uncertainty, ambiguity.
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