The holidays are over and that means the second year students are all trying to get back into the swing of things at school. It can be a little difficult adjusting back to early mornings but we're surviving like always with a little caffeine and a lot of determination.
This week I wanted to tell you all a little about our school's active learning techniques. Let me first start out by explaining the concept of active learning. Active learning is a style of education that uses direct student participation to learn or reinforce course material. PCOM uses active learning techniques in a lot of our classes and throughout both second and third years everyone takes a set of courses that are basically all active learning. They are called Case Study courses. The Case Study courses follow hand in hand with our Integrated Therapeutics classes so that as we study each major disease state and how to treat it, we then are able to apply it in the case studies. Most Fridays this year we get together in groups and discuss the case study we have been presented. Usually is a fairly complex patient case with multiple disease states we have to consider. We then decide and document what we believe is the best course of action for the patient. After our plans are complete, the class all comes together with our professors to discuss our ideas and plans. It's been a great way to apply the things we've learned and it's great practice for when we get into the real world because patient cases are often complex.
On another note next month is GPhA's VIP day at the state capitol and a bunch of us are signing up to go and represent our school and also have a fun day downtown.
Here's a picture from last year when we got to meet Georgia Governor Nathan Deal:
Katie
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