Design, implementation and evaluation of teaching module of liquid dosage form in a Flipped Classroom for pharmacy students

Flipped classroom represents a kind of blended learning in which educational content is delivered outside the classroom and classwork activities is done in the classroom.This study with the purpose of designing, implementing and evaluating of teaching dosage forms with flipped classroom method for pharmacy students has been done.

This was a SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) developmental study. It was performed as a flipped classroom for all pharmacy students (34 people) of the fifth term at Guilan University of Medical Sciences.The teacher distributed the content in a CD of PowerPoint to be studied. Subsequently, after a week, the students were  divided into six groups in the class, and the questions were proposed with handling a problem based small group strategy. With regard to evaluating, a focus group interview was conducted with the participation of 10 students who purposefully were choosen. Analysis of qualitative contents of data from focus group interviews was prepared by MAXQDA10 software.

34 students were participated in a study who 68% represent women and 32% represent men with 21 ± 0.5 average age. Evaluation results were extracted as 155 primary codes contain 4 main groups and 11 categories. Main group’s categories were attraction (innovation, challenge, subject and amusement), cheerful atmosphere (cooperation, engagement), preparedness (pre-reading, content type, volume of content) and class management (grouping, management of evaluation).

This method created more attractive and motivational than traditional learning. As the content was already presented to the students; by asking questions and interacting with students, the class was dropped out of teacher-centered and students were more willing to participate. Additionally, because of the applied contentof lesson, the level of engagement, discussion, and challenge was great.