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On Friday, July 30, 2021, from 08.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. (Bangkok local time), Dr. Thanika Pathomwichaiwat, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, participated as an invited speaker in the 2021 US-Thai Pharmacy Consortium (Post-Conference). Her topic was ’From case to class: Problem-based learning of steroid-adulteration in herbal medicine’. This international conference was virtually hosted by the Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University, and the Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, in collaboration with the Pharmacy Education Consortium of Thailand (PECT). Also, this online meeting was attended by more than 160 academic staff, scholars, researchers, pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, and registered pharmacists from 18 Thailand’s pharmacy schools, 16 US pharmacy schools, and the pharmacy schools in ASEAN countries.
The events of this online international conference included three academic lectures presented by three specialists from the University of Maryland’s School of Pharmacy, Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Mahidol University’s Faculty of Pharmacy. The conference’s focus was ’Laboratory Education in the Era of COVID: Lessons Learned and Best Practices,’ as online laboratory teaching has challenged all universities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This online conference aimed to provide an experience-sharing session that broadened their viewpoints in terms of laboratory teaching and learning techniques, resulting in advancing the pharmacy education for all of the pharmacy schools.
