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Pharmacy Fika

The Pharmacy Fika Crew

The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

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31:36

Mid-Career Doldrums - Navigating the Logjams and...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/12/09

In this epidose, the Fika Crew welcomes Brooke Griffin, PharmD, BCACP, from Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove, to talk about the mid-career / midlife demands that can put you in a rut. Coaching is one approach that can help you regain perspective, clarify values, and move toward actions (tiny experiments!) that positively support the journey.Intro and Fika Snack Sharing: 0:00 - 4:17 Midcareer Discussion: 4:18 Resources 5 Minute Pep Talk with Brooke Griffin

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37:21

Experimenting with Open Educational Resources: A Path...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/11/11

The Fika Crew talks about the promise and peril of free open educational resources (OER) and how they might be used to support faculty and students. OER grants permission to teachers to use teaching and learning materials freely and to adapt them as needed to their specific circumstances. The team debates the incentives for faculty to create OER, the cost savings for students, and the challenge of establishing a sustainable business model while promoting knowledge accessibility.Dr. Glaucomflecken

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45:25

Reporting from Chicago: Discovering What's Salty and...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/08/05

The Pharmacy Fika Crew brought their posh new microphones and their smartphones to the AACP Annual Meeting in Chicago. We talk with a select few speakers about their presentations and the lessons learned experimenting with new frameworks, techniques, and technologies. Kristin talks with Alex Isaacs (Purdue) about expectancy value theory and its application to assessments. Stuart interviews Jennifer Clements (South Carolina) and Kashelle Lockman (Iowa) about implementing greater transparency in

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27:31

Cultivating the Jedi of the Future: Using...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/07/08

The Fika Crew welcomes Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH — Clinical Professor, St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — who shares her concerns about leadership, systemic tension, and cultivating new voices. Are we so bogged down in administrative tasks that the system is taking away the time and space needed to think, invent, and be creative? How might an appreciative inquiry approach enable us to honor the progress we've made while fostering change for the future?Fika Beverage

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33:30

Draw Large and Startling Figures: Telling Your...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/06/03

The Fika Crew has a wide-ranging conversation about viewing scholarly work beyond the narrow confines of end products but rather how to capture the people, processes, and products to express its full impact. Use a framework. Consider using visuals. Speak the language of your audience.When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by

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31:33

Bridging the Know-Do Gap: Practice + Feedback +...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/05/06

The Fika Crew contemplates the know-do gap ... the gap between what we know research has documented is a helpful improvement and what we actually do. It's NOT a lack of knowledge or know-how, but rather a complex mix of factors that prevent us from translating what we know into practice. We explore some of these factors, but there are likely more!Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 - 2:51 Discussion about the Know-Do Gap: 2:52 Resources Clear J. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build

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33:21

Balancing Act: Trauma-Informed Teaching While...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/04/01

Prompted by avid Fika fan Dr. Judith Deluca from Binghamton University (SUNY), the Fika Crew explores two concepts that have been widely discussed in higher education over the past few years but rarely together! There is a tension between coddling young adults and employing trauma-informed teaching strategies. Jeff, Kristin, Tina, and Stuart discuss whether protecting students too much hinders their ability to cope with adversity. They consider whether increased accommodation is beneficial or

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32:08

Creating Space for High-Impact Educational Practices:...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2025/03/04

The Fika Crew talk about rusk bites and the AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities) high-impact educational practices — learning experiences that have disproportionate long-term benefits for students. These high-touch, complex, longitudinal experiences are resource-intensive and challenging to implement in an already all-too-packed curriculum. Measuring their effectiveness is no easy task, and determining what "low-impact" classes and activities should be eliminated is

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34:43

What is the Role of Humans in Instruction Powered by...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/11/05

The Pharmacy Fika Crew talks with Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, BCPS, BCIDP from the University of California San Francisco about the best uses of artificial intelligence (AI) to support learning. There are lots of "cool tools" that can summarize content and generate ideas (efficiently and effortlessly), but the work of learning requires some degree of desirable difficulty. How do we find the right balance and use AI tools wisely?_______________________ Resources Bastani H, Bastani O, Sungu A, et

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33:30

Educational Fads: They Have Sticky Appeal but Let's...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/10/01

The PharmacyFika crew critically examines educational trends, how fads develop, and why they fade. In this episode, you'll discover: 1) Tina loves boiled peanuts but is circumspect about the nutritional value of fish sticks, 2) Jeff, the grittiest guy we know, is ironically skeptical about measuring and teaching grit, 3) Stuart thinks learning styles aren't something that should influence teaching approaches, and 4) Kristin finds general ability outcomes appealing but challenging to implement when

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33:57

Travel Misadventures, CBE Trekkies, and Seeing Around...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/09/03

The Fika Crew share their pharmacy educator meeting experiences at the Monash Pharmacy Education Symposium in Prato, Italy, and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Kristin shares her travel misadventures, Tina wants to turn the "dark caves" of convention centers into "delightful" learning spaces, Jeff is positively effusive about the Aspiring Academics graduates, and Stuart can't tell the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek. It's all there

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33:36

The Work of Critical Reflection: Using Four Lens

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/08/06

Critical reflection is an important part of our work as teachers. Kristin, Jeff, and Stuart discuss the four lenses through which teaching practices can be examined: the personal lens, the student lens, the colleague lens, and the theoretical lens. Sadly, Tina had technical difficulties and couldn't join us for this discussion. But don't feel too badly about her plight — she was in Prado, Italy._______________________ Resources Brookfield SD. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, 2nd Ed. San

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36:37

Aspiring Academics: Preparing the Next Generation of...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/06/11

The Fika Crew talks with Sara Stallworth, PharmD, MPH from the University of Kentucky and Mira Haddad from The Ohio State University about their journey toward a career in academia. Joining a college or school of pharmacy (or other academic institution) as a faculty member can be enormously rewarding, but it is not right for everyone. How do programs like AACP's Aspiring Academics and formal training programs help people determine if academia is a good

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34:42

Upping Your SoTL Game & Tapping into Intrinsic...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/05/07

On the heels of March Madness (the NCAA College Basketball Tournament) and the Spring Rx Writing Challenge, the Fika Crew talks with Zachary Noel, PharmD, PhD, BCCP—Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy—about his recently published paper on ungrading individual readiness assessment tests (iRAT) and its impact on student performance and motivation in a team-based learning course. We then go on tangents to discuss how to become a better education

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32:49

Skillfully Receiving Feedback: Managing Emotions,...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/04/02

The Fika Crew (back in full force this month) talk about the challenges of receiving feedback. How we receive feedback is colored by our identity (and beliefs about self), the relationship with the person giving feedback, and our beliefs about what is "true." Few of us have had formal instruction on how to receive feedback well - but perhaps this should be explicitly addressed in our curricula.We'd love to receive your feedback! Please rate our podcast and provide comments about this episode

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34:00

The Art of Delivering Feedback that Fuels Success

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/03/05

Three of the Fika Crew (missing Kristin's wisdom) talk about their challenges and successes in delivering meaningful feedback to learners. Using a consistent and shared framework for providing feedback to learners in various contexts (assignments, practice laboratory, OSLEs, and experiential education) can make feedback more apparent, more actionable, more efficient, and more effective. We'd love to receive your feedback! Please rate our podcast and provide comments about this episode using your

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32:23

Counting What Counts - Cultivating Impactful Service...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/02/06

The Fika crew invited Caroline L. Ko, PharmD, BCCCP - Associate Clinical Professor at the University of the Pacific - and Ila M. Saunders, PharmD, BCOP - Health Sciences Clinical Associate Professor at the University of California San Diego - to talk about their work to create the PharmGradWishList and how service can be uplifted and recognized in the academy. Ultimately, faculty bear the responsibility of telling the story of how their service work makes the world and the academy a better place.

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35:25

Competency-based Education: From Knowing, to Knowing...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2024/01/09

In this epidose, we speak with Denise H. Rhoney - Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy - and Zubin Austin - Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto - about Competency-based Education (CBE). There is a movement afoot to transform health professions education to de-emphasize time and focus on a core set of competencies. However, defining the competencies, creating authentic assessments,

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31:11

It’s a Journey: The Pleasures of Academic Writing

Pharmacy Fika ·

2023/12/05

The Fika Crew talks about scholarly writing — the process, discipline and activation, joy and pleasure, technology, and success. If you've ever felt you were in a writing rut, you're not alone! Kristin, the mastermind behind the Rx Writing Challenge, guides us through a discussion about our writing habits.Introductions and Fika Sharing from 0:00 to 2:10 Our conversation about scholarly writing starts at 2:11 ______________________________ Resources The Spring 2024 Rx Writing Challenge will be

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32:47

Does Teamwork Make the Dream Work in Health...

Pharmacy Fika ·

2023/11/07

In this epidose, we speak with Lindsey J. Yates, DDS - Associate Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine and Assistant Director, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus - about the benefits and challenges of interprofessional education. There are lots of natural connections and topics that faculty, practitioners, and students could explore together ... but often, the incentives are

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