Elective course in nutrition taught by a pharmacy student

Objectives. Create, implement, and evaluate an elective nutrition course to increase students' awareness and knowledge of nutrition in pharmacy practice. Design. A doctor of pharmacy student, who was also a registered dietitian, designed and taught a 2-credit- hour elective nutrition course with the assistance and oversight of 2 faculty members. Assessment. Students who completed the final course evaluation ( 45% of the total) felt that the course would be useful to them in their pharmacy practice and highly recommended that other PharmD students take the course. Mean scores on the first and second knowledge- based examinations were 83% and 84%, respectively. Conclusions. This project reflects an innovative approach to developing and delivering a course in an important area of the pharmacy curriculum and provided a pharmacy student the opportunity to explore an academic career in pharmacy.