Emmanuel Chemla, Isabelle Charnavel, Isabelle Dautriche, David Embick, Fred Lerdahl, Pritty Patel-Grosz, David Poeppel, Philippe Schlenker
Formal Models at the Core
Cognitive science
increasing aging populations united states means increasing number persons parkinsons disease pd alzheimers disease ad requiring competent pharmaceutical care workshop designed implemented integrate pharmacology therapeutics management pd ad evaluate efficacy students highcognitive thinking selfrated knowledge improvement confidence interest subject thirdyear pharmacy students participated threehour workshop comprised foundational knowledge quiz pathophysiology pharmacology therapeutics performance highcognitive thinking clinical scenarios handson activities pharmacology therapeutics related pd ad care pre posteducation likertstyle questions assessed students selfrated confidence interest knowledge improvement descriptive statistics paired ttest chisquare analyses performed using stata 101 statistical software college station tx stata corp lp eightyfour 93 students 903 completed workshop activities students ability apply knowledge complex case mediation problems associated performance baseline quiz questions pearson r 003017 completion structured handson active learning integrating clinical pharmacology therapeutics measurable immediate benefit solving highcognitive order problems clinical scenarios p 005 handson activity also increased mean selfrated confidence p 001 students 856 reported knowledge improved somewhat much activity mean scores handson activity associated interest topic structured handson workshops aid comprehension taughtlectured material application pd ad way instructors close gaps didactic lecture clinical practice