Journal via Rotation

For this rotation, my preceptor wants me to make sure that I keep a journal log to make sure that I get all the details as much as possible for future purposes. I'm gonna try to update on a weekly basis in order to make sure I don't lose any memory. First, I'm gonna go back in time to make up the time lost.

August 16
First day of rotation started at 2 pm. Dr Davis, Van, and I went over the binder and the syllabus of what he expects out of us on this rotation. We talk about the readings that are due for this week on Friday. It seems as if the projects are sort of free form to some degree and to have a high impact on the pharmacy school somehow. Van and I learned that we have to teach a class in anti-microbials on Sept 9 to the P3s. I've never really taught for such a long period of time, let alone my abx knowledge is almost gone. Not stepping foot in a hospital setting has really slowed me down a lot while most of my fellow classmates already completed one or is one right now.

August 17
Today I went over the surveys on the preceptors, the faculty, the students, and the Rx schools. The only thing I really noticed was the negativity and not really worried about the positivity of the surveys. Not sure what Dr Davis wanted from me and Van, but I anticipate that he wanted to see what our perspective was as a student and a "faculty" member. I updated my portfolio binder as well because I did not believe it was up to par to what Dr Davis wanted. I was missing signatures as well, so I have to make sure that I get the rest from my HEB preceptor.

August 18
Went up to HEB site again to get the last signatures for my portfolio and to actually show my preceptor what I have been doing during that rotations. She seemed impressed and was super busy as well. Van and I met up to see what we got on the surveys to see if we have any similarities or if we have any concerns about the surveys. We've gotten pretty similar answers and ideas to what to say to Dr Davis tomorrow.

August 19
Went to eat with Teisha and her little baby. I'm afraid of the little one cause it's so small and look so fragile. Pterry is still legit. Meeting today with Dr Davis, Dr Roberts, and Van to discuss about the surveys. Lot of unexpected ideas that I did not think of. It seems as if the positivity surveys sections are really important to discuss with the committee that Dr Davis and Dr Roberts will have to talk to in the future. We went really in depth with the surveys as well and didn't get to finish the other two. Dr Davis even forgot to give us one of the surveys and it was an important because it makes a comparison to the UT students and the other schools as well. With the student comparisons, we try to focus on what was higher in the UT students than the general overall survey with the other schools to see if we could make any improvements. Van is a talker for sure which puts me in a bad spot because I usually am not when it comes to big authority like Dr Davis. I feel as if my comments weren't as creative or unique when it comes to the surveys compared to Van. Read all of the readings. A lot to absorb about faculty shortages and Bloom's Taxonomy. Epic fail on my part for doing things last minute.

August 20
Morning meeting with Dr. Davis to discuss the readings, projects, essay, ideas, FYIs, VARK, Bloom's Taxonomy. Went over the portfolio. I felt so unprepared when he asked about ABX. Definitely will have to brush up on a lot of it next week so I don't get dominated. My essay was a bit vague and I just did not feel comfortable when he picked at it. Note to self: Read over Concept Mapping and Make one with TOP 200 Drugs. Project ideas finally starting to come in. I think I might be teaching Probiotics for the antimicrobials class.It's a start so far. I told Dr Davis I didn't know what to do for the final project because the high impact ideas seem to be pretty awesome. I couldn't think of anything that great.