Slow down you are going too fast

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Slow down you are going too fastA workshop
I couldnt get to

• Dr Paul Collier
• School of Pharmacy

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Slow down you are going too fast

• The situation
• Students with differing mathematical abilities
• All have GCSE Maths
• Approximately
• 1/3 have GCSE Additional Maths
• a further 1/3 have GCE A level Maths
• GCSE only
• No knowledge of
• Logarithms
• Exponentials
• Calculus

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Slow down you are going too fast

• The Problem
• Clinical Pharmacokinetics
• Requires knowledge of
• Logarithms
• Exponentials
• Calculus

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Single IV Bolus Dose

• Rearranging gives
• Integrating between limits of time 0 ? t

• Which gives
• Expressed as concentration

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Single IV Bolus Dose

• This can also be written in the form of
  natural logs (i.e. ln or loge)
• This is equation of a straight line with slope
  -k

Slope -k
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Slow down you are going too fast

• The Problem
• Clinical Pharmacokinetics
• Requires knowledge of
• Logarithms
• Exponentials
• Calculus
• Traditional Lectures
• Too fast for GCSE-only students give up
• Too slow for A level students go to sleep
• Just right (?) for Additional Maths

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Slow down you are going too fast

• The Answer (?)
• Students learn at their own pace
• e-learning using Microsoft Producer
• Mini lectures recorded (video MP3 audio files)
• Lectures made available on CD (and/or stream from
  server)
• Hard copy of PowerPoint slides provided
• Feedback
• Self-assessment questions at end of each mini
  lecture
• Workshops

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Student Evaluation 1
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Student Evaluation 2
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Student Evaluation 3
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Student Comments 1

• Having a video that could be stopped/started/repea
  ted was helpful especially for more complicated
  topics, however, I would not like all lectures to
  be replaced by video lectures would be a useful
  addition to the rest of the lecture series as
  pharmacokinetics is quite confusing.
• It was helpful to be able to rewind back and go
  over any points that I didnt completely
  understand the first time round.
• A lot easier to listen to than normal lectures!
  I get bored of listening to the monotone, you can
  pause it, or rewind it to make sure we get any
  extra points!! Much more beneficial than real
  lectures.
• Can listen to lectures many times, therefore, can
  pick up on any points that were missed.

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Student Comments 2

• The video lectures were very useful and compared
  to lectures you could stop the video and take
  down notes and go over any points you missed.
• Although I wouldnt want all my lectures like
  this it was useful to be able to rewind over
  points I didnt understand the first time.
• I found the CD very helpful because if I didnt
  understand anything I could go back over it at my
  own pace.
• I found the CD really good because it was easy to
  rewind any bits I didnt understand to
  listen/watch again, which you obviously cant do
  in a normal lecture.

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Student Comments 3

• You could do it in your own time at a time that
  suited you in the comfort of your own home.
• Thought that the CD was very useful, as you could
  go over the lectures in your own time and were
  able to take it in more.
• It was good to be able to do the lectures in your
  own time.
• Video lectures are great more!
• The entire pharmacokinetics lectures should be on
  video. It would be better if there is a
  frequently asked question section in the CD.
• Very good, perhaps put all on CD instead of just
  5 lectures.
• CD is a good idea, but not for pharmacokinetics
  lectures.

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Student Comments 4

• Not all the PCs in the Heaney Library could play
  sound
• Make video files larger/higher quality.
• Overlay bullet points onto video.
• Add more dynamism to lecture.
• Useful for revision purposes.
• You cant ask a CD Rom for help if you have
  specific difficulties during a lecture.

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Postgraduate Education for PharmacistsPart-time
by distance learning

• Certificate/Diploma/Masters
• Clinical Pharmacy
• Community Pharmacy
• 2006 intake 109 Home/EU 9 Overseas
• Course material
• Format printed and online
• Workshops held at Queens
• recorded on video
• distributed on CD

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Pharmacy Workshop at a Distance (postgrad)