{"id":1222,"date":"2013-04-02T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2013-04-02T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:17:27","slug":"uri-college-of-pharmacy-professor-honored-for-research-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2013\/04\/02\/uri-college-of-pharmacy-professor-honored-for-research-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"URI College of Pharmacy professor honored for research publication"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newport resident brings together health care students for team-based learning<\/strong><\/h3>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 2, 2013 \u2013 Ask Celia MacDonnell<\/a> what her reaction was when she found out she had been honored for the best pharmaceutical publication in 2012, and her answer may surprise you. \u201cI had no idea what the award even was,\u201d she said, humbly. \u201cI had no idea it was such a big deal.\u201d
\nAnd a big deal it is: MacDonnell, clinical associate professor of pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island, has been honored with the Rufus A. Lyman Award, presented annually by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for the year\u2019s best publication involving original research and\/or other scholarly work in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. In 2012, 150 research articles were published, and 24 of those were selected to be finalists for the award; MacDonnell\u2019s was chosen the winner.
\n\u201cThe journal is the gold standard for publications in pharmacy education,\u201d MacDonnell explained. \u201cSo this really is quite an honor.\u201d
\nAlong with three of her colleagues and a graduate student, the Newport resident authored \u201cAn Introductory Interprofessional Exercise for Healthcare Students.\u201d The article describes her research in how students from the pharmacy and nursing programs at URI and medical students from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University work together to diagnose and treat patients.
\n\u201cOur piece is a timely one,\u201d MacDonnell said. \u201cThe emphasis right now is on group work and working in teams. The literature out there right now is rife with this subject.\u201d
\nMacDonnell submitted the manuscript in March 2012. It was returned to her with comments for resubmission\u2013 one of them asking the group to rerun their data. \u201cI collaborated with my T.A., who is working on his Ph.D in pharmacoepidemiology, to rerun the data \u2013 and it turned out even better than the first time that we ran it,\u201d she said. \u201cHe is the second author on the piece.\u201d
\nIn total, there are five authors of the article, including MacDonnell. \u201cThey are an amazing group,\u201d she said. \u201cWe each have our own schedules and obligations, so we completed much of the article online. It was a group effort.\u201d
\nMacDonnell has pioneered the interprofessional education effort at URI. Before coming to the College of Pharmacy, she worked as a civilian clinical pharmacist at the Naval Hospital in Newport. \u201cTheir work has a strong team-based focus,\u201d she said. During her time there, MacDonnell worked in the emergency room. \u201cI worked with physicians and nurse practitioners, and I was always included in discussions regarding patients,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes there were differences of opinion, but you just sort of had to get over it and work together to treat the patient.\u201d
\nWhen MacDonnell came to the URI College of Pharmacy, she began working on bringing the team-based approach to the curriculum. Armed with her idea, MacDonnell began implementing interprofessional education in the undergraduate health sciences programs at URI. She started collaborating with the College of Nursing in 2005. In 2007, MacDonnell approached Dr. Richard Dollase, director of Medical Education at Brown\u2019s Alpert Medical School, about collaborating with Brown medical students. \u201cHe accepted my idea without hesitation,\u201d she said.
\nToday, interprofessional education has become an integral part of the College of Pharmacy curriculum. \u201cIt is part of the laboratory curriculum, but it\u2019s actually more of a practicum,\u201d MacDonnell said. The program today consists of 300 students. Groups of third year doctor of pharmacy students, second year medical students, and senior nursing students are formed into teams. Each team meets with a \u201cpatient\u201d, actually an actor trained in the disease that he or she is representing. A grading rubric tailored to the lab exercise is given to both the patient and College of Pharmacy faculty members, who observe and grade the students. \u201cWe want to evaluate how they act as a team,\u201d MacDonnell said.
\nMacDonnell acknowledges that previously, medical providers worked autonomously. \u201cEvery medical professional has a different skill set. For example, nurses are the first ones to see the patient, and they notice things that doctors don\u2019t necessarily see at first. You cannot expect medical professionals to have an \u2018esprit de corps\u2019 if they don\u2019t know what other medical professionals do,\u201d she said.
\nForming the teams for the workshop was difficult at first. \u201cFiguring out the correct level of education was so important. Everyone has to have the same level of knowledge for the teams to work and the students to be comfortable,\u201d she said. Finding space for the lab was also a challenge. \u201cInitially, we held it in the dining hall of the Pembroke Campus at Brown,\u201d she said. \u201cWe just needed a big enough space to hold everyone!\u201d Today, the lab is held in the new medical school facility at Brown. \u201cFor a state university and a private university to collaborate like this is really unusual,\u201d MacDonnell said. \u201cWe\u2019re unique in that way.\u201d
\nThe future is promising for interprofessional education at URI. Currently, the group is in talks with the URI physical therapy program to involve doctoral candidates in the curriculum. \u201cWe\u2019ve also recently had graduate students in social work at Rhode Island College join the program,\u201d MacDonnell said. \u201cSocial workers have an entirely different job than nurses, doctors, and pharmacists. For example, they\u2019re the ones who make sure that the patient is going home to a safe environment. It adds a new dimension to the team.\u201d
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Dr. MacDonnell & Saumitra Rege<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWhile her focus is on interprofessional education, MacDonnell\u2019s interests are varied. She serves as the chair of the advisory board for URI\u2019s Office of Admission, as well as on a medication management committee at South County Hospital. MacDonnell also recently worked on a \u201ctelemedicine\u201d project with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where students in the pharmacy program at URI FaceTimed with pharmacists at UNC about infectious diseases and possible treatments. Named Project PETCO (and modeled after Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico), the focus was on communicating with pharmacists who see different factors for infectious diseases due to different locations. \u201cIt\u2019s not a winner yet,\u201d MacDonnell admits, \u201cbut it could be. I have to tweak it more. But that\u2019s the nice thing about working in this environment \u2013 you can tweak things.\u201d
\nMacDonnell earned both her bachelor of science and doctor of pharmacy degrees from URI.
\nPaul George and Richard Dollase, both of Brown University, Kara Misto of the URI College of Nursing, and Saumitra Rege, a graduate student studying pharmacoepidemeology, also contributed to the publication.
\nThis release was written by Rachel Donilon, a URI Marketing and Communications intern and writing and rhetoric major.
\nMedia Contact:\u00a0Dave Lavallee<\/a>, 401-874-5862<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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