1.
WELCOME TO CDM 4!
Alexa Carlson, PharmD, Med, BCPS
Associate Clinical Professor
a.carlson@northeastern.edu
Office hours by appointment
CDM Seminar
Mark Douglass, PharmD
Associate Clinical Professor
m.douglass@northeastern.edu
Office hours by appointment
CDM Course

2.
COURSE COORDINATORS
Office: 140 TF Rm 220
Practice site responsibilities
Office hours by appointment (please email)
We also have a discussion board with specific
questions
Goal is for everyone to be
successful
Keep communication open & professional
Come early, come often…get help if needed
We still care about your success even if we are off
site

3.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Content: psychiatry, neurology,
hematology, oncology, gender health, and
misc.
Similar in structure to all other CDM
seminar modules
Review syllabus, expectations, and
grading

4.
SEMINAR FACILITATORS
Seminar Session Faculty Mentor Post-Graduate Seminar Facilitator
AM
Sessions
PHMD4642-01
(31792)
Kariotis Hall 005 Michelle Jacobs
(m.jacobs@northeastern.edu)
Thy Ton-Morrison (t.ton-morrison@northeastern.edu) & Saloni Singal
(s.singal@northeastern.edu)
PHMD4642-02
(31793)
Ryder Hall 141
Donna Salib (d.salib@northeastern.edu) & Oreoluma Army
(o.army@northeastern.edu)
PM
Sessions
PHMD4642-05
(31796)
Ryder Hall 143 Mark Douglass
(m.douglass@northeastern.e
du)
Hannah Goddard (h.goddard@northeastern.edu) & Vivien Hien Tran-Vo
(tran-vo.v@northeastern.edu)
PHMD4642-06
(31797)
Kariotis Hall 304
Michael Burkett (mi.burkett@northeastern.edu) & Leanne Varga
(le.varga@northeastern.edu)
PHMD4642-07
(31798)
West Village F 114 John Devlin
(j.devlin@northeastern.edu)
Belema Somiari (t.somiari@northeastern.edu) & Hayoung Chang
(ha.chang@northeastern.edu)
PHDM4642-08
(31799)
Ryder Hall 202
Thao Luu (t.luu@northeastern.edu) & Amira Yusuf (t.luu@northeastern.edu)

5.
SEMINAR
To even out afternoon sections, some students had to be administratively moved.
Please attend the seminar section you are currently registered for.
Facilitators instructed to accept only those students who are on their roster.
If your name is not on the roster, please email Dr. Carlson by 01/09.
Please identify a leader for your group in the event your facilitator does not arrive on
time.
First seminar will be on 01/10 in your assigned classroom.

6.
CDM COURSE
OVERVIEW
Team teaching
Teaching styles and questions may be
different
We have weekly meetings with the
facilitators to review seminar and use
rubrics to try to standardize things as
best we can
Use this as a learning opportunity for
APPEs as each preceptor is going to
be different
Updates:
Further changes to the course may need to be made, such as scheduling different rooms for the CDM seminar debates. I
will be using the announcements section to keep you up to date.
CDM course syllabi are similar throughout

7.
SYLLABUS &
SCHEDULE
Schedule posted on Canvas under “Syllabus”
• Homework will be due the Thursday after seminar at 5pm. Adjustments have been made
for exam weeks.
• Exams:
• Exam #1: 02/08/23
• Exam #2: 03/22/23
• Final Exam: TBD
• Seminar Debates:
• 02/10/23: Annotated bibliography
• 03/16/23: Outline
• 03/16/23: Moderator and town hall questions
• 04/04/23 & 04/11/23: Debates
• Participation self-evaluation:
• 02/16/23
• 04/13/23
Important dates
• If you are going to be missing seminar (only a course coordinator can approve
absences)
• If you have concerns with the course
Please email Dr. C:

8.
SYLLABUS OVERVIEW
Class: Mon, Wed, Thurs from 8:30-10:20am in Richards Hall 236
Seminar: Tuesday 8:30-11:30 or 1:35-4:35
Course goals and objectives outlined in syllabus
Resources:
• Canvas: Hosts the seminar materials and will be where homework is submitted
• We encourage you to not use course notes as your primary resources in seminar. By the time you get to
APPE your notes will be out of date, so this is a great opportunity to use guidelines, review articles, primary
literature, and other resources to help prepare you for APPEs
• Drug Information Resources:
• DiPiro textbook available in AccessPharmacy
• Micromedex, Pubmed UpToDate via the library

9.
SEMINAR HOMEWORK POLICIES
•ALL assignments should be submitted via Canvas using the corresponding assignment links.
•All assignments may be assessed via TurnItIn for plagiarism. Accepted formats include Word, PowerPoint, and PDF.
•Directions:
• Log on to Canvas and enter into the corresponding course page.
• Click on the assignments tab on the left hand side of the Canvas page.
• Once in assignment, click on the assignment that is due for that week.
• Upload the assignment that is due.
•Submission of ALL assignments should be completed individually in your own words and submitted via Canvas by 5pm 2 days
following seminar (for example, if you have seminar on Wednesday your assignment is due by Friday at 5pm). On occasion,
students will be asked to submit work prior to coming to seminar. This work will be due at 11:59 PM the day before the seminar
(for example for a Wed seminar, you will need to submit work by Tuesday 11:59 PM).
• After the deadline, the ability to submit to Canvas will be locked, and NO further submissions will be accepted
• Do NOT contact your facilitator or course coordinator requesting credit for unsubmitted work or send it via email
• Students who experience technical difficulties submitting work in Canvas are responsible to provide evidence (e.g., screen shots) proving the work has
been completed before the deadline AND screen shots of error messages received AND ticket number of the report to the HELP desk. If all 3 are
available, the facilitator and course coordinator will use their discretion in accepting the assignment via another mechanism. It is the student’s
responsibility to obtain all 3 pieces of evidence as described above and submit it to the facilitator and course coordinator within an hour of the
deadline. Requests that do not comply with this policy with not be reviewed.
• The facilitator and/or course coordinators reserve the right to require an alternative deadline, which will be announced to the seminar as applicable.
•Feedback regarding the patient case scenarios will be returned to the students by the following seminar session unless otherwise
specified by the seminar facilitator. Feedback can be reviewed electronically by reading the comments in Canvas and the
corresponding rubric.
Note: Seminar homework feedback will not be
released to students until all homework is graded. Dr. C
will be regularly reminding the facilitators about their
duty to grade and make every effort to get them
graded in a timely manner.

10.
HOMEWORK TYPES
JCPP PPCP
patient cares
assessments
Written drug
information
questions
Vlogged Drug
information
questions
Other artifact Intervention
forms
Questions

11.
SEMINAR DEBATES
You will be given time to work in your debate group in seminar
Timeline:
• 02/10/23: Annotated bibliography
• 03/16/23: Outline
• 03/24/23: Moderator and town hall questions
• 04/04/23 & 04/11/23: Debates
More information can be found on Canvas

12.
COMMUNICATION
• For course related questions use Dr. Carlson
coordinator discussion board
• For content-related questions you can
• Post to faculty member specific forums
• Email each instructor if you would like to
arrange a meeting
Discussion Boards on Canvas
• Dr. C and facilitator about expected
absences
• Facilitator & faculty mentor about questions
regarding grading
Email

13.
TECHNOLOGY
Zoom
There will not be
hybrid seminars
Zoom will not be
used for remote
learning in seminar,
we will only be
having live seminars
Canvas & the
Library
Available through
Northeastern
Canvas will house
seminar materials
and assignments
Access pharmacy &
the library will have
additional resources
which may help with
seminar assignments
Social media,
online shopping,
etc.
Turn cell phone
off/silent
Distraction from
class is associated
with poor
performance

14.
CDM COURSE ASSESSMENT
Grade Calculation
Midpoint Participation 20%
Final Participation 20%
Homework Assignments 25%
CDM4 Seminar Debates 35%
Total 100%
A student must pass with a
minimum grade of 73% in each of
the following activities:
participation, homework, and
seminar project.
There will be no rounding in this
course

15.
BEST OF SUCCESS THIS SEMESTER!
Goal is for everyone to be successful and get you across the finish line to APPEs!
Make sure you are turning in your homework assignments! We have fewer
assignments in CDM4 to account for project work, so you do not want to skip turning
assignments in!
Keep up the participation! This is a great time to apply your skills to prepare you for
APPEs!
We still care about your success even if we are off site (please allow at least 24-
hours for email/post responses)

16.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING
WITH YOU!
Best of success in your final
semester of CDM!