COMMITTEE TACKLES COMMUNITY PRECEPTOR SHORTAGE

Dangerous connections: healthcare community tackles tubing risks.

In a heart-wrenching article last year, The New York Times called public attention to a patient safety risk that has festered for years: tubing misconnections. The front-page story chroni-cled the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn daughter for a mistake that never should have happened. Hospitalized for complications to her pregnancy, the woman's feeding tube was mistakenly coupled with a...

MINING: EPA Tackles Fracking

Preceptor preferences for participating in electronic preceptor development

OBJECTIVES New guidelines require preceptors to deliver approximately 30% of the doctor of pharmacy curricula. With preceptor's increasing responsibilities, colleges are faced with the task of training preceptors as educators. Identifying preceptor's training format preferences (i.e. electronic vs. live) should contribute to the more effective and efficient creation of training materials and pr...

Nigeria Tackles Advance Fee Fraud

Roger Nicoll Tackles Learning/Disabilities

Roger Nicoll was doubly honored by the Society for Neuroscience this year. He was awarded the Ralph W.