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Columns::September 2, 2003

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Professor named pharmacy college’s teacher of the year

By Sheila Roberson
roberson@rx.uga.edu

Catherine White, an associate professor in the department of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, has been named 2003 Teacher of the Year for the College of Pharmacy. The award includes an engraved memento, a cash award of $1,000, an invitation to present a lecture at the college’s Family Day event, funds to attend the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting and recognition at UGA Honors Day.
White says she never expected to be named teacher of the year, because most students find the clinical pharmacokinetics course that she teaches very difficult.
“It has a lot of applied math and calculations in it, and that can be intimidating to students,” she says. “It’s also considered one of the hardest and least popular courses since it has material that has not already been covered in the curriculum. Students from previous classes tell the upcoming third-year students that it’s difficult; they dread it, and it becomes a self-perpetuating myth.”
Since she started teaching the course, White has revised it to make the material more relevant and less theoretical. Students, she says, need to see the utility of the concepts as applied to patient care; when they see how to use the information in practice settings, they respond better.

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