Adaptation of a Hypertext Pharmaceutics Course for Videoconference-Based Distance Education

A hypertext pharmaceutics course was adapted for a videoconference-based long distance pharmacy education program. In the long distance program, live lectures given to one group of students were simultaneously broadcast to a remote group at a site 60 miles away. The pharmaceutics course consisted of a hyperlinked lecture series on dosage forms and routes of drug administration, along with relevant compounding labs. This manuscript describes the long distance program, how the pharmaceutics course was adapted to meet the needs of remote-site students, and the effect of the student location on exam question performance. A statistical analysis revealed that, for this course, the performance of students at broad cast sites did not significantly differ from the performance of students at remote sites