College Online Pharmacology Course - Registration is Open Now

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Here is the link to the summer online course: https://www.dmacc.edu/programs/pdp/pre-pharmacy/Pages/online-pharmacology-class.aspx

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Welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I'm Tony Guerra, pharmacist and author of the Memorizing Pharmacology book series, bringing you mnemonics, cases, and advice for succeeding in Pharmacology. Sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/P/mobile. Let's get started with the show.

Okay, welcome. This is a video showing how to register for the online pharmacology class and the books you'll need. Tuition, try to get everything in here, questions that everybody has. So first, if you want to find it just put in DMACC pharmacology or DMACC pharmacology class. DMACC stands for Des Moines Area Community College. It's a 10-week class and it is completely online. It is completely asynchronous so that means that you have deadlines each week.

You do not have to be in a video at any time or any specific time. Rather, you watch the videos, complete the exercises, and then you're graded on your submissions there and the discussions as well. Okay, so we do have a limitation of the number of students that can register for it but you would register here. So again, you put in DMACC pharmacology, it's going to bring you to this page and then you register. If you're not from DMACC, you just register as a guest student. It takes like a day total to get you registered and that just means that you're not planning on getting a degree from here, you're just signing up. And then if you are a DMACC student, you can just normally register for classes through that registration started for non-DMACC students on the 15th of March 2023.

To find out if the syllabus is something that's appropriate for you, you can also find the summer syllabus from last year here and the fall syllabus as well. It'll be the same books, same content this summer as it was last except for those things when I update something as far as maybe a change in a drug that's approved or something new and things like that. Tuition is not non-resident tuition if you are out of state rather it is the online tuition. It's a four credit course and we did that because a lot of schools that are maybe four-year schools want to see an extra credit if it's coming from a community college but again 208 dollars per credit hour seems reasonable. It's 178 in tuition plus thirty dollars in online support fee per credit hour so you can do the math on that times four but again it is a 10-week course.

This was when everybody was able to register for summer so March 15th, you register for summer if you're thinking about spring or fall it's taught every single semester. It's just in summer we have so much demand for it we actually open two sections usually in the summer but that's not always the case hopefully we will again open two sections okay.

The dates start on May 23rd of 2023 and end on August 3rd of 2023. You will get if you are trying to transfer this out a couple of days after that you will be able to transfer it and what you can do is you can just say hold my transcript for final grades and that will allow it to transfer to wherever it is that you need it to transfer to make up for if for example you had a bad spring and weren't able to pass pharmacology some colleges allow this some don't and again it's really up to your college to decide if that's going to be appropriate for them.

For those of you that are in maybe high school or are thinking about medicine or nursing or Pharmacy as a career or maybe and this happens quite a bit if you have pharmacology coming up in fall and you want to take pharmacology now so that when you get into fall with some colleges if you fail pharmacology you would have to repeat the entire year and by doing this with your hardest class it makes sense that okay well I'm just gonna give myself some insurance I've already taken the class learned the pharmacology language so that when I go into the class I'm well prepared for it.

I did this with biochemistry I knew that I would be taking biochemistry in pharmacy school in the first year I knew that was the very hardest class available and so I took it and then ended up actually auditing it for non-credit because that was what I was doing and I didn't really necessarily want to take the tests and all that but I did attend the courses at Maryland and it was super helpful to have already taken it. I've already gone through the Krebs cycle, I've already gone through those things. So whether you're taking it and these are the biggest three reasons people take it: they either take it because they did not pass a pharmacology course and their college does not offer one in the summer or spring or fall or whenever it is. Two, if they're getting into PA school or they are getting into another type of program that requires pharmacology. Three, they are a student that is interested in the Health Professions, has a little bit of an opening in a class that they want that's relevant, that's going to help them in their next phase and this can be nursing or Pharmacy or medicine but many different people you'll have in the pharmacology class. But again, the fact that it's only 10 weeks and that is completely asynchronous is helpful to a lot of people.

So just with the course syllabus, just let you know, the CRNs are not what they are for this time but I'll just kind of go through the big pieces at the end here. These are the things that we're going to go over and again it's in the syllabus that you can download but this is the course schedule and again it's over 10 weeks. We're going to use three books and I'll show you those and give you the rationale for using each of them. These due dates obviously will be updated for 2023.

Okay, the first one is an open educational resource nursing pharmacology. Unfortunately, it was used for a two credit course so not enough of a book to completely cover everything that we need but because so many of our students are nursing, it was important that we use a nursing book as part of it so that these case studies relate to the nursing profession. Then, the pieces you know, the other credits that we need we use Pharmacology Made Simple and I wrote this book for Elsevier because what we wanted was a book that really makes things quite straightforward but the other big deal is that you can rent it for fifteen dollars for the semester usually around there fifteen to twenty dollars. And so, the OER book is free if you get the eBook and don't buy the print book. This one was fifteen dollars to rent.

And then one thing that I find is a real concern is students can't pronounce the names of the medications or if you're taking a course that's online and it's something like this where you really want to know the medication names an audiobook is an option for this one. You can get the paperback, you can get the audiobook and get the Kindle because I'm on my own Amazon you can't see it but the audiobook actually is free if you become a member of Audible. So if you decide to do that you can.

And then I think that was it yeah so again, the way to sign up for the online course is to go to that original page just put in pharmacology DMACC in a Google search, you'll get to this page whether you're a guest student or somebody who's trying to transfer in. It's a reasonable course to take over summer to kind of either get it out of the way to fix something that happened or again to just get that extra step ahead so that when you come in to take pharmacology at your own College, it is so much easier because you are helping other people rather than being lost in the weeds.

So if you've got questions there's my link to my email a-a-g-u-e-r-r-a at dmacc.edu. If you call me and leave a message it will actually email me that message so if that's the way you prefer to contact me as well that's fine but I'm happy to answer any questions about PHR185 Pharmacology completely asynchronous and online course that's 10 weeks this summer at Des Moines Area Community College.

Thanks for listening to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. You can find episodes cheat sheets and more at memorizingfarm.com. Again, you can sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/P/mobile. Thanks again for listening.

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