Real World Testing

CP: I was thinking. . . 

CPP: I am moist with anticipation.

CP: I'm pretty sure those aren't related and you should see a doctor. 

CPP: <smirks> As you were saying?

CP: I believe Pharmacy Boards and Pharmacy schools should alter their testing procedures to more adequately represent the real world situations pharmacists will face when they graduate and enter the workforce. 

CPP: You're saying the tests should reflect more than the knowledge they were able to obtain and cram in their brains over 5-10 years at university? 

CP: Of course. How much of your job is using your brain? 

CPP: Most of it. 

CP: And the rest of it?

CPP: Juggling.

CP: When I coach my soccer teams, we start with endurance training and/or sprints to open practises. Then we move on to skills and touches and game play. Do you know why?

CPP: Sure. It's more difficult to make decisions when you and your brain are fatigued. 

CP: Exactly. It makes it more difficult to focus when you're tired and distracted. 

CPP: How are you planning to change the test taking to incorporate this?

CP: We're going to have the testees hanging out in the class. Next to the testees, we're going to have a bunch of other students, assholes, distracting them throughout the test. 

CPP: Asking where the bathroom is? Or the shoe polish? 

CP: A few will even be tasked with begging the testees to take them to their classroom and when they get there, tell them it's the wrong classroom. 

CPP: Or wrong building altogether. 

CP: Before the test, all testees must give their phone number to the professor. She and her TAs will randomly make calls to students during the test which they will have to take from their seats while continuing the test. 

CPP: Will they be giving shots as well?

CP: It wouldn't reflect the chaos if we omitted those. 

CPP: How about an insurance section?

CP: Cruel. I like it. Testees will randomly drop into a timed exercise where they will have to either successfully submit a prior auth claim, successfully bill a flu shot or shingles shot, or call for a vacation override. 

CPP: If they initiate this the first year of school, the students should be prepared to face anything thrown their way during their Boards and at work. 

CP: The final licensure exam by the Board will be shortened by a random amount at the anticipated midpoint. 

CPP: Ooooh. Like one of those wrinkles or surprise challenges on a cooking show!

CP: Yes. This will reflect corporate cutting help. Even though you still have to answer 350 questions, you now have less time. 

CPP: Surprise!

CP: At least the chains will get the pharmacists they actually want. 

CPP: Two men enter. One man leaves!

CP and CPP: Two men enter! One man leaves!

CPP: What do we call the test process?

CP: Between the testees and the assholes? #TaintFair