Innovative ideas, strategies, and resources to attract students to the pharmacy profession: Report of the 2023-2024 AACP Student Affairs Committee.

Over the past 2 decades, the Academy has witnessed an increase in new colleges and schools of pharmacy and, simultaneously, a decrease in student applications, resulting in a decline in enrollment across most institutions. Although the number of students pursuing a Doctor of Pharmacy degree has been dropping, the Academy is responsible for bolstering recruitment to effectively prepare a robust pharmacy workforce to care for our ever-growing and complex patient populations. The 2023-2024 Student Affairs Committee (SAC) was convened to explore new ideas, develop innovative strategies, and gather supportive resources that can be utilized by colleges and schools of pharmacy to attract students to the pharmacy profession. The SAC was charged with developing a framework for a video mini-series that utilizes the art of storytelling to promote the pharmacy profession to prospective students. Secondarily, the SAC was charged with developing a plan to engage with students who apply but do not ultimately get accepted into nonpharmacy health professions programs and consider recommendations for targeting pharmacy technicians to pursue a PharmD degree. To accomplish this work, we created videos and proposed other innovative tools and flexible pathways to assist in recruiting students into the pharmacy profession. We also conducted a literature and website review, engaged in professional networking across the Academy, and proposed best practices to enhance student recruitment. In addition, we offered 8 recommendations to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and 7 suggestions to colleges and schools of pharmacy to attract students to the pharmacy profession.

Research on the Effect of Executive Incentive Institutional Innovation on the Cost of Equity-Evidence From Chinese Listed Companies.

Executive incentive has long been a hot topic among academics and practitioners. With the continuous development of China's manager market, the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship among executives has exerted a greater influence on corporate performance. Enterprise innovation is an important part of the entrepreneurial spirit. Moreover, China's supply-side reforms and compensation system of the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been advanced and innovative. Therefore, based on the manager human capital theory and the organizational innovation theory, and using 15,492 firm-year observations from China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies for the period 2005-2018, we constructed various models, including the Gorden model, the Growth Rate of Price-Earnings Ratio model (PEG), the Ohlson and Juettner-Nauroth model (OJ), and the Capital Asset Pricing model (CAPM), to measure the cost of equity. We investigated the effect of the institutional innovation of executive incentives on the cost of equity, and the heterogeneous influence of China's special property rights system on the relationship between the two. We found that the innovations of the executive incentive system have a positive governance effect on the cost of equity. In particular, executive compensation incentives significantly reduce a company's equity costs. We also find that the state-owned property rights may weaken the positive effect of institutional innovation of executive incentives. Furthermore, China's executive incentives system and corporate governance mechanism are imperfect; and therefore, institutional innovation is a matter of great urgency and more innovative ideas for the manager market need to be introduced. China's listed companies should give full play to the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, constantly innovating incentive-based compensation systems of companies, and establishing a scientific and innovative concept of the cost of equity. The findings are robust after controlling for potential endogeneity concerns.

New situation and new strategy-novel ideas of research on classical Chinese medicine prescriptions / 中国药理学与毒理学杂志

This article summarizes and highlights the opinions by experts at the "The Modern Research Forum of Classical Chinese Medicine Prescriptions 2018 & the First Annual Conference of Shanxi Pharmacological Society", co-sponsored by the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine Pharmacology Committee of the Chinese Pharmacological Society (CNPHARS) and the Shanxi Pharmacological Society (SPHARS). Their ideas and proposals will play a positive role in promoting research and development, globalization, and regional innovation of Chinese medicine prescriptions. Meanwhile, we summarize different ideas on "multidisciplinary collaboration and persistence in research of classic Chinese medicine prescriptions", "research ideas and strategies of Chinese medicine prescriptions", and "novel ideas of new drug research and development of classical Chinese medicine prescriptions". There is the conviction that the combination of the original thoughts of Chinese medicine with modern technologies will produce original achievements.

Innovation Strategy in the Modern Chinese Medicine Based on Scientific Representation of Classic Herbs Dosage Forms / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

Excavating and characterizing the dosage forms characteristics of classic Chinese medicine preparations is the basis for the innovation of modern preparations of Chinese medicine. Through the combing statistics of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on the establishment of traditional Chinese medicine preparations, the research literature on Chinese medicine preparations at home and abroad, and the registration of new Chinese medicines in the past ten years, this paper finds that the research projects of classic Chinese medicines have been greatly reduced. The market share of traditional Chinese medicine classics has shrunk year by year. The modern preparation produced in the "preparation of traditional Chinese medicine by western medicine technology" mode dominates the market. However, because of its "degraded" effect, it is less competitive. Therefore, with the wave of classic dosage forms research promoted by national policies, accelerating the study of classical Chinese medicine preparations will not only promote the development of pharmaceutical discipline of traditional Chinese medicine, enhance the classic medical culture literacy, but also promote the protection and inheritance of classic medicine.

Does drywall installers' innovative idea reduce the ergonomic exposures of ceiling installation: A field case study.

OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to assess an intervention suggested by the workers to reduce the physical or ergonomic exposures of the drywall installation task. METHODS: The drywall installers were asked to brainstorm on innovative ideas that could reduce their ergonomic exposures during the drywall installation work. The workers proposed the idea of using a 'deadman' (narrow panel piece) to hold the panels to the ceiling while installing them. The researcher collected quantitative exposure data (PATH, 3DSSPP) at the baseline and intervention phases and compared the phases to find out any change in the exposure while using the 'deadman'. RESULTS: Results showed that ergonomic exposures (such as overhead arm and awkward trunk postures and heavy load handling) were reduced at the intervention phase while using the 'deadman' with an electrically operated lift. CONCLUSION: The concept of the 'deadman', which was shown to help reduce musculoskeletal exposures during ceiling installation, can be used to fabricate a permanent ergonomic tool to support the ceiling drywall panel.

Improving core medical training--innovative and feasible ideas to better training.

A recent survey of UK core medical training (CMT) training conducted jointly by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and Joint Royal College of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) identified that trainees perceived major problems with their training. Service work dominated and compromised training opportunities, and of great concern, almost half the respondents felt that they had not been adequately prepared to take on the role of medical registrar. Importantly, the survey not only gathered CMT trainees' views of their current training, it also asked them for their 'innovative and feasible ways to improve CMT'. This article draws together some of these excellent ideas on how the quality of training and the experience of trainees could be improved. It presents a vision for how CMT trainees, consultant supervisors, training programme directors, clinical directors and managers can work together to implement relevant, feasible and affordable ways to improve training for doctors and deliver the best possible care for patients.

On Building a Grand View of Hospital Propaganda in the New Era / 中国医学伦理学

A grand view of hospital propaganda should be built in the new era to manifest the characters of healthcare services,transmit health and medical information to the general public,promote mutual communication between society and hospitals,and construct a harmonious circumstance between hospital staff and patients.We should aim to optimize the image of the whole medical industry and change the parochialism in current hospital propaganda.We should innovate the operational ways and means of hospital propaganda to strengthen the working quality and effect,aiming to advance both the social and economic benefit of hospitals.