Pharmacy Fika
The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Making Time for Reading the SoTL Literature: Not Your Mama's Journal Club
The Fika Crew welcomes Carrie Vogler, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Southern Illinois Edwardsville, and Heather Folz, PharmD, BCACP, Associate Professor o…
Reporting from Chicago: Discovering What's Salty and Sweet at the AACP Annual Meeting
The Pharmacy Fika Crew brought their posh new microphones and their smartphones to the AACP Annual Meeting in Chicago. We talk with a select few speakers about their presentations and the lessons le…
Cultivating the Jedi of the Future: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Make System Change
The Fika Crew welcomes Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH — Clinical Professor, St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — who shares her concerns about leadership, systemic tension, and …
Draw Large and Startling Figures: Telling Your Scholarship Story
The Fika Crew has a wide-ranging conversation about viewing scholarly work beyond the narrow confines of end products but rather how to capture the people, processes, and products to express its full…
Bridging the Know-Do Gap: Practice + Feedback + Incentives + Environment + Context
The Fika Crew contemplates the know-do gap ... the gap between what we know research has documented is a helpful improvement and what we actually do. It's NOT a lack of knowledge or know-how, but ra…
Balancing Act: Trauma-Informed Teaching While Avoiding the "Coddling" of Learners
Prompted by avid Fika fan Dr. Judith Deluca from Binghamton University (SUNY), the Fika Crew explores two concepts that have been widely discussed in higher education over the past few years but rare…
Creating Space for High-Impact Educational Practices: It Requires Leadership and Commitment
The Fika Crew talk about rusk bites and the AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities) high-impact educational practices — learning experiences that have disproportionate long-term b…
Co-production of Instruction: Engaging Learners and People with Lived Experience
The Fika Crew talk with Sophie Soklaridis, PhD and Holly Harris, MA from the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health affiliated with the University of Toronto and the Collaborative Learning College abo…
Developing Adaptive Expertise: Grappling with Novel Problems and Failure to Promote Future Learning
The Fika Crew invited (and she accepted!) Naomi Steenhof, BScPhm, PhD from the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto to talk about the nature of expertise. She explains how pha…
The Science of Learning: Using Neuroscience to Create Powerful Learning Experiences
The Fika Crew talks about the science of learning. Neuroscience has uncovered a few evidence-based learning strategies that improve retention and skill acquisition. These simple strategies can be use…
What is the Role of Humans in Instruction Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
The Pharmacy Fika Crew talks with Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, BCPS, BCIDP from the University of California San Francisco about the best uses of artificial intelligence (AI) to support learning. …
Educational Fads: They Have Sticky Appeal but Let's Not Be Dogmatic
The PharmacyFika crew critically examines educational trends, how fads develop, and why they fade. In this episode, you'll discover: 1) Tina loves boiled peanuts but is circumspect about the nutriti…
Travel Misadventures, CBE Trekkies, and Seeing Around Corners - Meetings Recap 2024
The Fika Crew share their pharmacy educator meeting experiences at the Monash Pharmacy Education Symposium in Prato, Italy, and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting …
The Work of Critical Reflection: Using Four Lens
Critical reflection is an important part of our work as teachers. Kristin, Jeff, and Stuart discuss the four lenses through which teaching practices can be examined: the personal lens, the student le…
Feeling Drained? You're Not Alone! Managing Your Energy
The Fika Crew explores the things that boost and drain our mental and physical energy. Energy management (personal and organizational energy, not national energy policy) seems like an appropriate to…
Aspiring Academics: Preparing the Next Generation of Pharmacy Educators
The Fika Crew talks with Sara Stallworth, PharmD, MPH from the University of Kentucky and Mira Haddad from The Ohio State University about their journey toward a career in academia. Joining a college…
Upping Your SoTL Game & Tapping into Intrinsic Motivation
On the heels of March Madness (the NCAA College Basketball Tournament) and the Spring Rx Writing Challenge, the Fika Crew talks with Zachary Noel, PharmD, PhD, BCCP—Associate Professor at the Univers…
Skillfully Receiving Feedback: Managing Emotions, Remaining Receptive, Asking Questions, Taking Action
The Fika Crew (back in full force this month) talk about the challenges of receiving feedback. How we receive feedback is colored by our identity (and beliefs about self), the relationship with the p…
The Art of Delivering Feedback that Fuels Success
Three of the Fika Crew (missing Kristin's wisdom) talk about their challenges and successes in delivering meaningful feedback to learners. Using a consistent and shared framework for providing feedb…
Counting What Counts - Cultivating Impactful Service in the Academy
The Fika crew invited Caroline L. Ko, PharmD, BCCCP - Associate Clinical Professor at the University of the Pacific - and Ila M. Saunders, PharmD, BCOP - Health Sciences Clinical Associate Professor …