Skip to main content
2024 Annual Meeting Main banner
X
ViewAttendees 17

Curricular Design / Teaching Strategies

Well-being

Fostering Ambiguity Tolerance in Doctor of Pharmacy Education

Sunday, July 21, 2024
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
Location: Hynes: 302/304/306
CE: 0.50

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Select didactic teaching strategies that improve pharmacy students’ tolerance for ambiguity in healthcare.
  • Describe methods for assessing pharmacy students’ ability to effectively cope with situations and problems that lack clear and straightforward solutions or present uncertainty.
Evidence-based pedagogy for improving student pharmacists’ tolerance of ambiguity in healthcare is limited. This session describes how ambiguity tolerance training was threaded into a new pharmacy course using backwards design. Following the session, participants will be able to structure learning objectives that embrace the complex, ambiguous and unpredictable world of healthcare; develop learning activities focused on ambiguous situations and associated coping strategies; and identify strategies to assess tolerance of clinical areas of gray or uncertainty.