Successful Pharmacology course completion requires students to mentally overlay complex mechanisms of drug action onto intricate body physiology to make sense of how drugs both correct and cause disease. Unfortunately, many students (undergraduate – health professional) lack the needed study/critical thinking skills required to navigate this complex curriculum. Providing students with lecture content and study guides is only a partial solution as they often fail, alone, to adequately convey the thought structure required for student success. Therefore, this series of application/critical thinking worksheets was developed to demystify, model, and guide students through the critical thinking processes that need to be employed when engaging the Pharmacology curriculum.
Type of Material:
Tutorial worksheets that can be printed and completed.
Recommended Uses:
The worksheet resources can be used as a self-paced tutorial, in-class/discussion, clinical remediation, group work, homework and in a flipped classroom environment.
Technical Requirements:
Internet access
Web browser
Worksheets open as PDF files
Identify Major Learning Goals:
After use, the learner will
Improve critical thinking related to pharmacology by applying critical thinking processes specific to pharmacology knowledge.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division
This resource can be used by students in programs that require completion of a pharmacology course.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
The document is in pdf format and opens in Google Chrome, Firefox, Explorer. Does require Adobe to open the PDF.
Knowledge of pharmacology is needed to complete the worksheets. A printer is needed if one wishes to print the worksheets.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Variety of critical thinking questions and case studies. The diagrams included in the tutorial are clear.
This comprehensive resource covers basic pharmacological concepts and is outlined by body systems (Neuro, Cardio etc.).
The interactive resource (coloring, labeling etc.)provides enough detail for students to complete the worksheets and practice their critical thinking/knowledge translation.
The diagrams are excellent.
All questions are clear.
Concerns:
For question #3 under Discussion #2- Most drugs behave . . . Behave is a word that closely correlates to an individual's behavior. Would recommend changing this verb to a different word such as "act"
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Content is placed in a format that is easy to navigate and helps students understand concepts, while appropriately challenging student thinking, safety and knowledge translation.
The PDF is fillable, so the student can continue to work through the worksheets online or print off and complete by hand.
The author has also included student feedback on the resource. This is available through the link below the worksheets. Both links work.
These worksheets will help improve critical thinking skills in healthcare professionals. They will help students to apply the knowledge of pharmacology to real world examples.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The worksheet is easy to navigate and scroll.
All pages are clear.
The PDF link to download is easy to access and save to the student's individual laptop, iPad etc. Instructions for each question are clear and understandable.
The layout was easy to read and appropriately structured.
The section headings were appropriate and reflected the content within each section.
Concerns:
The student will need Adobe to access and utilize the worksheets fully.
Creative Commons:
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