title: An elective course to promote academic pharmacy as a career.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To implement and assess an elective course that engages pharmacy students' interest in and directs them toward a career in academia.
  
  
  METHODS
  A blended-design elective that included online and face-to-face components was offered to first through third-year pharmacy students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward academic pharmacy were measured by pre- and post-course assessments, online quizzes, personal journal entries, course assignments, and exit interviews. The elective course promoting academic pharmacy as a profession was successful and provided students with an awareness about another career avenue to consider upon graduation. The students demonstrated mastery of the course content.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Students agreed that the elective course on pharmacy teaching and learning was valuable and that they would recommend it to their peers. Forty percent responded that after completing the course, they were considering academic pharmacy as a career.
authors.affiliation: School of Arts and Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science, Albany, NY 12208, USA. patricia.baia@acphs.edu
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baia
authors.forename: Aimee
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Strang
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003479:Curriculum; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009790:Occupations; D010604:Pharmacy; D013339:Students, Pharmacy