Now dean of the UNMC College of Pharmacy, Dr. Ueda, who has earned his Pharm. D. and Ph.D., said this type of faculty-focused instruction alone is no longer effective in an age where students are bombarded with information. They need to understand the difference between what's nice to know and what they need to know. The College of Pharmacy at UNMC is implementing the second year of its new professional curriculum. This approach to teaching, Dr. Ueda said, places the instructor as a facilitator.
Students actively participate in the learning process.
They learn from one another. Dr. Ueda discussed the college's new curriculum and how health-care education is pushing aside old ways of teaching while placing students at the forefront. First of all, we're living in an era of information explosion. Information is being generated at an exponential rate, while the curriculum has remained essentially the same size, or four years, for decades. Something has to give.