Her program uses WebCT, a software package that offers a chat room and bulletin board and supplies enrollees with administrative information such as registration and grades. Through an interactive counseling session, a student will practice responding to a patient s questions and choosing the appropriate drug for the patient s condition. Feedback will be immediate and automatic. Her programs require students to come to campus once a month. For many of the students, distance learning presents the only way feasible option for obtaining continuing pharmacy education, given their rural locations and busy lives.
Distance learning is also a part of undergraduate pharmacy programs.
Megan Shryer, a sixth-year pharmacy student of Newton s, described her colleagues use of WebCT during clinical rotations in settings outside the university.