Academic Affairs

Team Leader Description

UIC COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

EDUCATIONAL POLICY COMMITTEE

P-1, P-2, P-3 CURRICULUM TEAM LEADER

Description:

The College curriculum provides a structure which enables students to develop into reflective practitioners who can anticipate change and modify pharmacy practice in a rapidly transitioning health care arena.  The first three years of the curriculum accomplish two important goals. The first goal is to help students attain a fundamental core of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they can put into practice in experiential components of the curriculum.  The second goal is to learn the basic and applied science necessary to help them prepare for licensure and a successful practice.  The curriculum promotes fulfillment of the adopted professional competencies and skill outcomes for a generalist practitioner who provides pharmaceutical care.

Curricular success is predicated on developing a structure that supports course implementation, ongoing evaluation, and constant revision.  An integral part of the structure that helps ensure success and connectedness within the curriculum is the position of Team Leader.  There shall be two Team Leaders assigned to each of the first three academic years - one from a basic or administrative discipline and the other from a clinical discipline. These faculty members are charged with oversight of teaching and learning that occurs in a given academic year.  They are responsible for integrating topics across courses, facilitating new ways of faculty teaching, and working proactively to improve the educational experiences of students.

Qualifications:

 Full-time faculty member at the rank of Associate or Clinical Associate Professor or higher, who is not a department head or a dean; demonstrated commitment to educating pharmacy students.  Preferably, the Team Leader must not be assigned to the same class year that he/she serves as a course coordinator.

 

Responsibilities:

·        Work closely with course coordinators to insure successful course outcomes

·        Organize and conduct periodic meetings of course coordinators to discuss important teaching and learning issues (e.g., sequencing content across courses, developing consistent course syllabi and policies, minimizing the number of back-to-back examinations, etc.)

·        Provide regular updates at EPC meetings about the curriculum including problems and resolutions

·        Coordinate dissemination and collection of Student-Course Evaluations for core courses

·        Assist faculty in developing innovative teaching and learning strategies

·        Assure, in concert with course coordinators, that course content allows students to meet terminal competencies associated with UIC Professional Practice-Based Outcomes.

·        After the first exam and then as needed, meet with the class representatives for each course and serve as conduits of student opinion about course improvement

 

Accountability:

Team leaders will be accountable for their activities to EPC.