title: Faculty attitudes and scholarly productivity resulting from a seminar course.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine faculty attitudes toward a professional seminar course for PharmD students, document scholarly production derived from the course, and ascertain whether that scholarly production or other faculty characteristics affected attitudes toward the course.
  
  
  METHODS
  Faculty members served as facilitators for pharmacy students enrolled in a professional seminar course. A 34-item survey instrument intended to identify faculty attitudes toward the course and document scholarly productivity was developed. All 40 faculty facilitators involved in the course were asked to complete the survey instrument.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 30 (75%) faculty members who completed the survey instrument, 20 had an overall positive attitude toward the course. Faculty members had generated approximately 90 peer-reviewed scholarly works over a 9-year period as a result of the course. Significant associations were found between faculty members' attitudes toward the course and academic rank, academic department, and scholarly production derived from the course.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Faculty members who had advanced academic rank, an appointment in the pharmacy practice department, and scholarly productivity as a result of serving as a facilitator for a Professional Seminar Course were more likely to have positive attitudes toward the course.
authors.affiliation: McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Samford University, USA.
authors.forename: Jon Bradley
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Marshall E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Cates
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Woolley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003625:Data Collection; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000592:standards*; D004526:Efficiency; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012106:Research; D013339:Students, Pharmacy; D014956:Writing