Biomedical subjects

D J Belsheim

Publications and source records attributed to D J Belsheim.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1988

Developing a videocassette program for pharmacy education.

The development of a videocassette program to educate pharmacists about congestive heart failure (CHF) is described. The CHF videocassette program was developed to provide the equivalent of four hours of instruction to pharmacists in continuing-education programs or Pharm.D. degree programs. CHF was chosen as the topic because it is a common medical problem that pharmacists likely would encounter, and the material would lend itself well to visual illustration. A program-development team consisting of a pharmacist-author, an educational-design specialist, and a writer-producer was established. The group dealt first with treatment of ideas, or discussions of ways in which the educational material could best be illustrated. The pharmacist-author developed the text for the program, and the writer-producer converted the text into a script with numbered scenes. Information that could be presented more appropriately in written format was gathered into a supplemental guidebook. A storyboard script that linked the text with the audio and visual elements was developed with the help of a professional director and medical illustrator, and the program was filmed using volunteer and professional actors as well as simple animation. The program comprises two videocassettes that are 40 and 44 minutes long, respectively. The estimated cost of the production was +28,000, which includes estimates of the value of time volunteered by the pharmacist-author, educational-design specialist, nonprofessional talent, and secretaries. The program has been used for six continuing-education programs and two classes of Pharm.D. students; subjective evaluations of the program have been favorable. Videocassette technology can be applied successfully to educational programs for pharmacists.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1986

Models for continuing professional education.

Three models for continuing professional education (CPE) are described: an education model, which reflects the mainstream of CPE practice and focuses on educational objectives, teaching methods, organization of educational experiences, and assessment; a social change model, which considers the total environment in which CPE occurs; and a problem-based model, which focuses on the professional context and order of complexity of professional problems. Each model is described, and its strengths and drawbacks as applied to continuing medical education are discussed.

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PubMed1986

The design and evaluation of a clinical clerkship for hospital pharmacists.

Forty hospital pharmacists participated in a two week pilot of a postgraduate clinical pharmacy clerkship, utilizing different hospital services as teaching sites at the University of Illinois and Cook County hospitals in Chicago. The clerkship provided eighty hours of instruction in the clinical setting under the guidance of experienced clinical faculty. Though designed as an introductory clerkship for teaching basic clinical skills, general medicine floors were used as instruction sites as well as specialized services including emergency medicine, neonatology, surgical oncology, cardiology and an out-patient rheumatology clinic. Key findings include: the two week clerkship and its emphasis upon basic clinical skills was a meaningful educational experience for both participants and faculty; the limited time frame of the clerkships made crucial the instructional design including systematic development of objectives and faculty preparation; an improvement in participant performance on all but one objective was observed between the 3rd and 10th day; the clerkship enhanced the confidence of participants with respect to the performance of basic clinical skills; and the clerkship experience broadened participants' conceptions of the depth and scope of the clinical pharmacists role. These results indicate that a two week clinical clerkship can be a useful vehicle for pharmacy postgraduate education.

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