Pharmacy Curriculum Managment System

System Access:

Technical questions or system access? Contact Clyde Hughes

News

Thanks to everyone who participated in the PCMS Input Day on May 20th!

We appreciate all who came and participated in this important curricular update.

Thank you!!

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"Did you know..."

Stream Team Members - The Stream Team Guide to Using PCMS is located in the Curriculum Committee section Main Menu, in the lower right link box under "Stream Team Documents." Please note that instead of "Search All Courses," as the guide mentions, the "View All Courses" section is currently used for searching course materials. Each column is sortable.

To get started (if you are a member of the Curriculum Committee), follow the "Curriculum/Assessment Committee" link to the immediate right, and log in. >
If you are not a member of the Curriculum Committee, please click on the "Course coordinators and faculty, peer review members" link and log in. >

Please make note of a very important change to PCMS.
PCMS now has its own URL (web address), which is now:

http://pcms.ouhsc.edu/ams/

Please bookmark this link for your convenience.

Overview

In fall 2002, the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy began its curricular evaluation on the Doctor of Pharmacy professional program, which consists of three years of didactic course work and one year of experiential learning. Didactic courses were evaluated on a rolling semester basis starting with professional year one. As program evaluation continued, the paper-based evaluation data complied in binders became unmanageable. It was difficult to search content information within and between courses using static paper-based evaluation data. Also, access to the evaluation data was limited (can only be viewed by one user at a time). Evidently, we needed an on-line management information system. Market research revealed no existing on-line system met our needs, so internal solution (PharmacyCMS) was initiated.

About PharmacyCMS

In a broad overview, PharmacyCMS is a unified system which integrates the efforts of many in the College to meet the needs of stakeholders participating in the academic program. Its main function is to map the doctor of pharmacy program and to track student performance throughout the curriculum. By electronically mapping of the program, the curriculum will consist of an organized structure of knowledge, concepts, principles, and understandings. By tracking student performance, student workload can be assessed more accurately and their needs can be better addressed, as well. Therefore, the system aims to provide a guide to a balanced curriculum with a definite set of logical relationships.

Target Outcome and Goals of PharmacyCMS

The target outcome of implementing database management information system for professional pharmacy program evaluation is to promote continuous quality improvement of teaching and student learning throughout the doctor of pharmacy degree programby achieving the following goals:

Provide a systematic and efficient manner for managing evaluation data
Make the curriculum transparent to all stakeholders
Facilitate ongoing curricular evaluation

Objectives

Pharmacy Curriculum Management System (PharmacyCMS) and is designed to:

Maximize communication within and between stakeholders.
Perform a broad comparative view of the learning objectives, program outcomes, assessment methods of all courses in the curriculum.
Integrate content (e.g. what is taught), instructional strategies (e.g. how is taught), course sequencing (e.g. when is taught) and assessment measures (e.g. how are students assessed) within each course.
Provide access to program evaluation data including student performance throughout the curriculum, student workload and their needs.
Evaluate how well students are achieving the intended program outcomes.