CIPhER Friday Seminar – “Improving Educational Efficiency and Effectiveness Using Design-based Principles”

Jacqui McLaughlin, MS, Ph.D., Director, Education Research & Scholarship, CIPhER

Michael Wolcott, PharmD, BCPS, PhD Candidate, Learning Sciences and Psychological Studies

Is your course well designed? Have you created an environment that maximizes your efficiency and optimizes student learning? Design thinking is a popular methodology in healthcare, business, and biotechnology for improving processes and products through problem solving. More recently, educators have begun using design thinking to inform course design and teach critical thinking skills to health professionals. In this session, you will learn what design thinking is and how you can use it to improve your own educational practice.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 3, at 5 p.m.

Event FAQ

• Lunch will be provided from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM in Beard 212A. On the registration form, please indicate if you will attend the lunch session and include any dietary restrictions.
• A Zoom link will be provided prior to the session via a confirmation email for registrants who indicate that they will attend the session remotely.
• Parking passes are available only for guests and visitors employed at locations outside of the UNC campus. Please bring your parking deck ticket to the event to receive a pass.

Presenter Information

Jacqui McLaughlin, Ph.D., received her undergraduate degree in biological engineering from North Carolina State University, her master of science in biomedical engineering from the University of Memphis, and her doctorate in educational research and policy analysis from North Carolina State University. She spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow with the Office of Strategic Planning and Assessment (OSPA) at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and currently serves the school as an assistant professor of educational innovation and research and as the associate director of OSPA. Currently, McLaughlin is involved in educational research that examines relationships between student characteristics, engagement, and performance over the course of a curriculum. Her research experience and interests extend across the context of admissions, classroom engagement, experiential learning, and extracurricular activities.

Michael Wolcott, PharmD, BCPS. is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina School of Education and a clinical infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist at Duke University Hospital. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2014 followed by a pharmacy practice residency at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. His work with UNC Eshleman School of Pharmacy includes implementing educational research initiatives with a focus on preceptor development, design thinking, assessment, and technology-enhanced learning.