INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT An Objective Standardized Clinical Examination (OSCE) in an Advanced Nonprescription Medicines Course

SUMMARY Small group recitation periods were incorporated ina nonprescription medicine elective to make learningmore interactive. Also, an OSCE to assess student phar-macists’ counseling skills on nonprescription medicineswas added tothe course. Collegesof pharmacy have to beable to quantify students’ learning to assure that the com-petencies addressed by the course were actually learnedand canbeappliedbythe students.Small grouprecitationperiods and OSCE assessment are 2 good methods thatbuild upon each other to ensure students have learned thematerial that was taught. REFERENCES 1. In: Berardi RR, ed. Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: AnInteractive Approach to Self-Care. 16th ed. Washington, DC:American Pharmacists Association; 2009:3,5.2. Consumer Health Care Products Association, OTC Facts andFigures. http://www.chpa-info.org/pressroom/OTC_FactsFigures.aspx/. Accessed June 15, 2010.3. Hastings JK, Flowers SK, Spadaro DC. Integrating an elective self-care experience with a required advanced pharmacy practicecommunity experience. Am J Pharm Educ. 2006;70(6):Article 144.4. Sculli M. Profile of community pharmacy faculty in US schools/colleges of pharmacy [poster]. Annual Meeting of the NonprescriptionMedicines Academy, Cincinnati, OH, September 2009.5. Valdez C, Paulsen S. Design and implementation of a video-basedclinical examination. Med Educ Online. 2007;12:9.6. Leibowitz K, Ginzburg D. Counseling self-treating patientsquickly and effectively. Proceedings of the APhA Inaugural Self-Care Institute, Chantilly, VA; May 17-19, 2002.7. Center for Clinical Skills Education. University of Arkansas forMedical Sciences. http://www.uams.edu/csc/ Accessed June 2, 2010.