OEIS along with faculty directors have partnered with three library services: Kanbar Center, Maker’s Lab, and the Learning Tech Group (LTG); in order to enhance practical and available technologies to further the student learning experience through hands-on learning, critical thinking and reflection, and communication tools and techniques. Since the 2018 launch of a theme-based curriculum, 2018 Curriculum and Beyond, the School of Pharmacy has been developing ways in which to engage students early on in the classroom in order to prepare them for their Pharmacy training and clinical and community experiences. 
 
The Applied Patient Care Skills (APCS) course is a longitudinal series that complements the Core, Inquiry, and Experiential Education elements of the curriculum. The purpose of the APCS course is to help students further build upon student knowledge to care for patients as a whole and enhance communication skills with patients and other healthcare providers both verbally and in writing. The APCS course is fully case-based and will focus on advancing 3 domains: hands-on skills, communication skills, and critical thinking skills. Additionally, various aspects of leadership, professionalism, cultural sensitivity, law and ethics, and self-care will also be taught throughout the course. APCS is designed to allow the students to reinforce the skills and topics that they have learned in class. As such, there will be minimal introduction of new material in the APCS sessions. The emphasis will be on new ways of thinking about what students have already learned.
 
In the first year of UCSF’s PharmD program, a new student learns how to prepare a medical history, provide drug and tobacco cessation counseling, take a basic physical examination, administer vaccinations, demonstrate Over-The-Counter drug use and administration, just to name a few. We were able to successfully pilot integrated technologies in three major ways: use of SAM II (Student Auscultation Manikin) mannequins from Kanbar for lung and heart sounds as well as physical examination simulation, 3D GI tract printing with the Maker’s Lab to simulate OTC counseling for GI products, and creating CLE video reflection assignments with LTG to assess student comprehension and verbal skills and for OSCE preparation. 
 
Staff representatives from OEIS, Kanbar, LTG and Maker’s Lab are excited to present on best practices, walk you through the steps it took from concept to operationalizing, and how partnering with on-campus services can improve the learning and teaching experience.

Slides: https://ucsf.box.com/s/0khxj6vpxo313bkql0wkkq6m79zrpb99 (MyAccess login required)