PHAR 351 GTA Manual (2012W1)

Manual for Graduate Teaching Assistants

Pharmacy 351 (P351) is the first in a series of four therapeutics courses taken by students in the B.Sc.(Pharm) program. It is taken by 2nd year pharmacy students, is worth 2 credits, runs from September to December each year, and is delivered to a class of ~225 students.

The content is primarily dermatology, pulmonary and gastrointestinal pharmacotherapeutics.

Each topic area is “streamed” in sequence from pathophysology (P371), to pharmacology (P341), to therapeutics (P351) and patient self-care/non-prescription therapeutics (P361).

All course management is done in the UBC LMS. The course GTA has “Designer” level privileges for the course. Login is via your usual UBC Campus-Wide Login (CWL).

A detailed course syllabus is posted on the main page in the LMS, including examination policies the course schedule, and all session-related content (handouts, prereading assignments, podcasts).

Responsibilities of the P351 GTA

Communicate with instructors to (a) remind them of their upcoming session(s); (b) solicit their slides/handouts for posting/printing; (c ) find out if they need parking passes, solicit exam questions from them after their session has been taught.
Proctor the final exams.
Support instructors in using, upon request, tools like Wikis
Mark P351 final exam (with or without a “marking team” as required)
Provide parking passes to off-campus instructors.
Other duties as required by the Course Coordinator

Required Skills/Resources/Behaviours

Regular (i.e., at least daily) monitoring of email.
Ability and resources to convert a PPT file to a PDF document in handout (1 slide/page) format.
Ability to use UBC LMS course management functions (e.g., editing “Schedule & Learning Materials” page, posting files, adding/editing quiz questions, others as required)
Ensure that all email communication about this course contains the word “P351” in the SUBJECT LINE.
Please ACKNOWLEDGE all emails sent by the Course Coordinator to confirm receipt/actions taken.
Please CC the Course Coordinator on all messages sent to instructors.
Please ACKNOWLEDGE all responses from instructors and remember to thank them for sending their materials.
Notify the Course Coordinator ASAP if any of the steps listed below result in non-response from instructors or any other unusual issues arise in the course of these activities.

COURSE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES BY GTA

1. 7 DAYS before their scheduled session, email instructor to solicit their teaching materials

Cut and paste the following text to facilitate this communication, substituting appropriate dates, times, topics, places, persons as required:

SUBJECT: Your P351 "XXX" session on 23SEPXX

Dear Dr X:

I am the Graduate Teaching Assistant for Pharmacy 351 (Therapeutics I).

In preparation for your session on XXSEPXX at 1400h in PHRM 1101, this is a friendly reminder to email me the handout for the session on or before 1100h on [3 working days before the session]. All students have been asked to read the corresponding chapter in the latest edition of Therapeutic Choices ahead of the session. If you would like them to read additional/different information please let me know.

Note THIS YEAR we will NOT be printing any materials for the students. They are required to access your session materials online and use/print them per their preferences. As we are going all electronic could you please send your handouts as a pdf document in the format of ONE slide per page. If you have trouble creating pdfs please just send me your presentation slides.

Let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to receiving your materials on or before [3 working days before the session].

[Your name here]

PHAR 351 GTA

2. Immediately upon receipt of the session materials (and at least 2 business days before the session), post them to Connect under the appropriate session. Also DELETE residual session materials from the previous year unless otherwise requested by the instructor.

NOTE: If the instructor sends a PPT file, you must convert this to a PDF file. This requires Adobe Acrobat software.

Instructors for Fall 2012

Dr. Marc Levine, UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | levine@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr. James McCormack, UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | jmccorma@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. Patricia Gerber, UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | gerberp@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr. Claire MacLeod, Pediatrics, Surrey Memorial Hospital | Claire.MacLeod@fraserhealth.ca
Dr. Paul Mackenzie, Opthalmology, Faculty of Medicine | pmack@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr. Elaine Lum, Vancouver Coastal | Elaine.Lum@vch.ca
Dr. Roxane Carr, Women and Children's and UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | rcarr2@cw.bc.ca
Dr. Anisha Lakhani, Vancouver Coastal | anisha.lakhani@fraserhealth.ca
Ms. Penny Miller, UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | pemiller@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr. Ed Dillon, Vancouver Coastal | Ed.Dillon@fraserhealth.ca