The Fika Crew welcomes Carrie Vogler, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Southern Illinois Edwardsville, and Heather Folz, PharmD, BCACP, Associate Professor of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy at Notre Dame of Maryland University, to talk about the online faculty journal club called "Not Your Mama's Journal Club." At the AACP Annual Meeting, they described how they engage faculty in interactive discussions about papers related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). We wanted to learn more!

Intro and Fika Snack Sharing: 0:00 to 3:48

Resources

Charrios TL, Janke KK, Covvey JR, Aronson BD. Making space for reading as a faculty member. Am J Pharm Educ 2023; 87 (10): Article 100115.

Rubin G. The four tendencies: The indispensable personality profiles that reveal how to make your life better (and other people's lives better, too). New York: Harmony Books, 2017.

McGuire SY, McGuire S. Teach students how to learn: Strategies you can incorporate into any course to improve student metacognition, study skills, and motivation. New York: Routledge, 2015.

Ambrose SA, Bridges MW, Lovett MC, DiPietro M, Norman MK. How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Lang JM. Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2021.

Leslie I. Curious: The desire to know and why your future depends on it. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Palmer P. The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life. 20th Anniversary Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

The Pharmacy Fika Crew brought their posh new microphones and their smartphones to the AACP Annual Meeting in Chicago. We talk with a select few speakers about their presentations and the lessons learned experimenting with new frameworks, techniques, and technologies. Kristin talks with Alex Isaacs (Purdue) about expectancy value theory and its application to assessments. Stuart interviews Jennifer Clements (South Carolina) and Kashelle Lockman (Iowa) about implementing greater transparency in their teaching using the TILT framework. Tina bumps into Professor Louise "Lou" Brown (University College London) and marvels at the curricular changes needed to prepare graduates for a new identity - prescriber! Jeff was attracted to the session on Smart Leave Practices and tracked down Katelyn Alexander (East Tennessee) to find out how we can be more thoughtful and intentional about time off from work. Stuart pigeonholes Todd Sorensen (Minnesota), who chaired the 2025 Argus Commission, to discuss the Forecast Report and the trends that may materialize over the next five years. And Kristin wanted to learn more about how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a partner to be a more effective educator, and interviewed Jacqui MacLaughlin (North Carolina) about the use of AI to assess learners.

Intro and Fika Snack Sharing: 0:00 to 3:30

• Expectancy Value Theory (Isaacs) [3:31]
• Transparency in Teaching and Learning (Lockman & Clements) [10:27]
• Curricular Change and Professional Identity (Brown) [18:26]
• Smart Leave Practices (Alexander) [25:05]
• Argus Commission Forecast (Sorensen) [29:20]
• Generative AI for Assessments (MacLaughlin) [33:53]

Resources

Holdford D, Lovelace-Elmore B. Applying principles of human motivation to Pharmaceutical Education. J Pharm Teaching 2001; 8(4): 1-18.

Website: TILT Higher Ed: Transparency in Teaching and Learning

Ambrose SA, Bridges MW, DiPietro M, Lovett MC, Norman MK. What Factors Motivate Students to Learn? In: How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Jossey-Bass, 2010: 66-90.

Sorensen T, Cox C, Haines ST, Lin A, Melchert R, et al. AACP Argus Commission Forecast 2025. 2025;89(8):101441.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

The Fika Crew welcomes Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH — Clinical Professor, St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — who shares her concerns about leadership, systemic tension, and cultivating new voices. Are we so bogged down in administrative tasks that the system is taking away the time and space needed to think, invent, and be creative? How might an appreciative inquiry approach enable us to honor the progress we've made while fostering change for the future?

Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 to 4:47

Discussion about Leadership: 4:48

Resources

Ashton M. Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff. N Engl J Med 2018: 379 (19): 1789-91.

The Center for Appreciative Inquiry. What is Appreciative Inquiry?.

Merriel A, Wilson A, Decker E, et al. Systematic review and narrative synthesis of the impact of Appreciative Inquiry in healthcare. BMJ Open Qual 2022; 11(2): e001911.

Cockell J, McArthur-Blair J. Appreciative inquiry in higher education: A transformative force. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

The Fika Crew has a wide-ranging conversation about viewing scholarly work beyond the narrow confines of end products but rather how to capture the people, processes, and products to express its full impact. Use a framework. Consider using visuals. Speak the language of your audience.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 to 4:05

Discussion about Scholarship: 4:06

Resources

Albon SP, Cooley JH, and Janke KK. A tool for creating snapshots of faculty contributions to pharmacy education. Am J Pharm Education 2022; 86 (2): Article 8628.

Janke KK, Cooley JH, Albon SP. Interrogating our views on education-related scholarship. Am J Pharm Educ 2023; 87 (6): Article 100085.

Simpson D, Fincher RM, Hafler JP, et al. Advancing educators and education by defining the components and evidence associated with educational scholarship. Med Educ 2007; 41 (10): 1002-9.

Educational Leadership Mapping (ELM) Tool. University of British Columbia Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.

Education Performance Standards Framework. Monash University, April 2019.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

The Fika Crew contemplates the know-do gap ... the gap between what we know research has documented is a helpful improvement and what we actually do. It's NOT a lack of knowledge or know-how, but rather a complex mix of factors that prevent us from translating what we know into practice. We explore some of these factors, but there are likely more!

Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 - 2:51

Discussion about the Know-Do Gap: 2:52

Resources

Clear J. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. New YorK: Avery, an imprint of Peguin Random House, 2018.

Duhig C. The Power of Habits: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. New York: Random House, 20212.

Hulme PE. Bridging the knowing-doing gap: know-who, know-what, know-why, know-how, and know-when. J Appl Ecology 2014; 51 (5): 1131-1136.

Livet M, Haines ST, Curran GM, et al. Implementation Science to Advance Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists and Other Health Professionals. Pharmacotherapy 2018; 38 (5): 490-502.

Winget M, Persky AM. A practical review of mastery learning. Am J Pharm Educ 2022; 86 (10): 8906.

Nelson A, Eliasz KL. Desirable difficulty: Theory and application of intentionally challenging learning. Med Educ 2023; 57(2): 123-130.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

Prompted by avid Fika fan Dr. Judith Deluca from Binghamton University (SUNY), the Fika Crew explores two concepts that have been widely discussed in higher education over the past few years but rarely together! There is a tension between coddling young adults and employing trauma-informed teaching strategies. Jeff, Kristin, Tina, and Stuart discuss whether protecting students too much hinders their ability to cope with adversity. They consider whether increased accommodation is beneficial or detrimental to student development and independence, particularly at a time when more students come to college with adverse life experiences.

Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 - 3:49

Discussion about coddling learners and trauma-informed teaching: 3:50

Resources

Lukianoff G and Haidt J. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.

McClinton A, Laurencin CT. Just in TIME: Trauma-Informed Medical Education. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 2020; 7(6): 1046-1052.

Arbour M, Walker K, Houston J. Trauma-informed pedagogy: instructional strategies to support student success. J Midwifery Womens Health 2024; 69(1): 25-32.

Kaurman SB. How to stop being a victim of your past. Victimization comes from the outside. Victimhood comes from within. Psychology Today, March 2025.

Rose F. Safe spaces on college campuses are creating intolerant students. Huffpost, May 30, 2017; updated June 12, 2017.

Nelson A, Eliasz KL. Desirable difficulty: Theory and application of intentionally challenging learning. Med Educ 2023; 57(2): 123-130.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

The Fika Crew talk about rusk bites and the AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities) high-impact educational practices — learning experiences that have disproportionate long-term benefits for students. These high-touch, complex, longitudinal experiences are resource-intensive and challenging to implement in an already all-too-packed curriculum. Measuring their effectiveness is no easy task, and determining what "low-impact" classes and activities should be eliminated is harder still. We need the "Brock List of Low-Impact Practices" to help guide us!

Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 - 3:40

Discussion about high-impact educational practices: 3:41

Resources

Kuh GD. High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter. American Association of Colleges & Universities, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9796181-4-7

Fink LD. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, 2nd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013.

White A. Understanding the University and Faculty Investment in Implementing High-Impact Educational Practices. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2018; 18(2): 118–135.

Kilgo CA, Ezell Sheets JK & Pascarella ET. The link between high-impact practices and student learning: some longitudinal evidence. High Educ 2015; 69: 509–525.

Forrester CA, Lee DA, Hon E, et al. Preceptor perceptions of pharmacy student performance before and after a curriculum transformation. Am J Pharm Education 2023; 87 (2): 8575.

Lepp GA, Westberg SM, Lee J, Janke KK. Exploring the unanticipated value of an oral exam integrating content across courses. Curr Pharm Teach Learn 2025; 17 (5): 102302.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika

The Fika Crew talk with Sophie Soklaridis, PhD and Holly Harris, MA from the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health affiliated with the University of Toronto and the Collaborative Learning College about their work using "different knowledges" to co-produce instruction and a research agenda. How might pharmacy education co-produce instruction drawing upon the "different knowledges" of our students, the patients we service, and the stakeholders who are the benefactors of the work of pharmacists?

Fika Beverage Snack Sharing: 0:00 - 6:28

Discussion about co-production of instruction: 6:29

Resources

Whitney R, Shepherd G, Slade M. Recovery colleges as a mental health innovation. World Psych 2019; 18 (2): 141-142.

Harris H, Donner K, Rovet J, et al. The trials and triumphs of co-producing an evaluation plan: A principles-focused evaluation. Res Involv Engagem 2024; 10: 132.

Soklaridis S, Harris H, Shier R, et al. A balancing act: navigating the nuances of co-production in mental health research. Res Involv Engagem 2024; 10: 30.

Agrawal S, Capponi P, López J, Kidd S, Ringsted C, Wiljer D, & Soklaridis S. From surviving to advising: A novel course pairing mental health and addictions service users as advisors to senior psychiatry residents. Academic Psychiatry 2016; 40(3): 475–480.

Brooks CF, Lund S, Kryl D, Jones SL, Myall M. "We all see things through a different lens based on our life experiences": co-production of a web-based implementation toolkit with stakeholders across the health and social care system. Front Health Services 2024; 4: 1356961.

Elliot IC, Robson I, Dudau A, et al. Building student engagement through co-production and curriculum co-design in public administration programmes. Teach Pub Admin 2021; 39 (3): 318-336.

Stigma Unraveled Addiction Unmasked. A community of practice for health professionals co-produced with learners and people with lived experience.

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The Pharmacy Fika podcast is a positive and compassionate “place” (a virtual community) where pharmacy and other health professions educators gather to discuss teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic life… plus the snacks that support their best work. So grab your favorite beverage and listen to the Pharmacy Fika podcast with your colleagues.

The Co-Hosts are:

• Stuart T. Haines (Executive Producer), University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy – sthaines@olemiss.edu
• Tina Brock, University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences - tina.brock@unimelb.edu.au
• Jeff Cain, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - jeff.cain@uky.edu
• Kristin Janke, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy - janke006@umn.edu

Disclaimer (inspired by Whad’Ya Know?): All opinions expressed on the Pharmacy Fika podcast are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are ours and our guests alone, and not those of our employing institutions.

Even though we don’t accept advertising and don’t have any sponsors, we seem to mention Trader Joe’s snacks and various water-based drinks a LOT.

Not sure what fika is all about? Watch this brief video: How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance.

Got a great idea for a discussion topic? Drop us a line (pharmacyfika@gmail.com) or leave us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/PharmacyFika