Objectives. To determine student perceptions regarding online lectures and quizzes during an introductory drug information course for first-year professional doctor of pharmacy students. Design. Formal and online lectures, online quizzes, written semester projects, a practice-based examination, a careers in pharmacy exercise, and a final examination were used to deliver the course content and assess performance. A multiple-choice survey instrument was used to evaluate student perceptions of WebCT and online lectures. Assessment. More than 47% of students reported that online lectures helped them learn the material better, 77% reported that lectures would be used to study for the final examination, and 59% reported that they would use WebCT lectures for future classes. Approximately 40% of students agreed that online lectures should be used in future courses. Conclusion. Students reported that WebCT was easy to use; however, the majority of students preferred in-class lectures compared to online lectures. A positive correlation was observed for those students who performed well on the online quizzes and those who performed well on the final examination.

The purpose of this study was to obtain students' attitudes and opinions at Samford University regarding plagiarism and academic misconduct by means of an internetbased survey system composed of yes/no questions and Likert-type rating scales. Data from 681 of approximately 4,500 Samford University students (15% return rate) were analysed. Research indicates that plagiarism and other incidents of academic misconduct are on the rise for a variety of reasons. Students seemingly have the notion that internet information is public knowledge and is thus free from intellectual property rights; therefore, they do not seem to think internet information needs to be cited for academic purposes. The vast majority of Samford students agreed that if one submits a paper written by someone else, this would constitute plagiarism; and that it was unacceptable to copy/paste information from the internet without proper citations. Slightly less than a majority of students disagreed that cheating was widespread at Samford; and a majority indicated that faculty should clarify their expectations regarding academic integrity. The results are somewhat similar to other plagiarism and academic misconduct studies.

Drug'mterocliontexts 204 33.8 R f w n t w n e t 1 02 16.9 uspa# 97 16.1 AHB § 73 121 M i i d X 54 8.9 14 2.3 bels indicated that Alabama had 1,197 retail/ community and 159 hospitaVmenta1 health pharmacies. Based on this estimate, the total survey return rates for these facilities were 34% and 46%, respectively. AVAILABLE RESOURCES BY ALL PHARMACIES Enumeration of available D1 resources for Alabama pharmacies was one of the major objectives for this study: Table 1 depicts the survey results of the resources in ascending order of availability for all pharmacies. Slightly over 90% of all pharmacies indicated that Drug Facts and Comparisons was available, and 51 % indicated that the PDR was available. Micromedex and Mosby's Drug Consult were the least available of the options provided. AVAILABLE RESOURCES BY PHARMACY TYPE Table 2 illustrates survey results for the major drug monograph texts available by pharmacy type. Table 3 also depicts resources by pharmacy type; however, these resources are more by groups of resources (eg, OTC references) rather than a specific single text, except for the Drug lnformation Handbook and Micromedex. RetaiVCommunity Pharmacies. The survey results (Table 2) indicated that Drug Facts and Comparisons had the highest availability among retail/community pharmacies, and slightly less than half (44.2%) indicated that they had the PDR. Of the 480 retail/community pharmacies that responded to the survey, half (50.8%) indicated that they had OTC references available (see Table 3). HospitaVMental Health Pharmacies. Drug Facts and Comparisons also had the highest (95.9%) availability (Table 2) among hospital/ mental health pharmacies; medicaVpharmacy journals were second with 60.8%, and the Drug Information Handbook (58.1%) had the highest availability among grouped references (Table 3). Other Pharmacies. The other pharmacy types group included compounding pharmacies, long-term care facilities, clinics, hospices, nuclear agencies, home infusion agencies, and so on. Again, Drug Facts and Comparisons (Table 2

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The two primary objectives of this study were to identify available electronic drug information (DI) resources in licensed Alabama pharmacies and to identify common electronic resources to teach in the doctor of pharmacy curriculum at the McWhorter School of Pharmacy. A survey consisting of 10 questions was mailed to all licensed medication-dispensing pharmacy practices in Alabama (N = 1,562), of which 699 (44%) were returned for analysis, primarily by community and hospital practices (78.8% and 10.7%, respectively). The survey identified type of pharmacy, demographics, and availability and usage of electronic DI resources. Drug Facts and Comparisons, Internet search engine, the Pharmacist's Letter, and Clinical Pharmacology were the most available electronic DI resources (59.5%, 48.6%, 42.3%, and 31%, respectively) among responding pharmacies. Drug Facts and Comparisons was the most common print-based resource; Lexi-Comp and Epocrates were the most utilized handheld DI resources. Assessment of Electronic Drug Information Resource Availability in Alabama Pharmaciesd r u g i n f o r m a t i o n 797 i n t r o d u C t i o nThere has been a proliferation of electronic drug information (DI) resources due to ease of use, accessibility, low cost, and perceived comprehensiveness. A decade ago one had to consult a print drug monograph such as the AHFS Drug Information, Drug Facts and Comparisons, Drug Information Handbook, or the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) to locate DI. 1 However, someone who desired information regarding nonprescription products would have to consult a print specialty book or journal pertaining to those products. Currently, a publisher can have all this information in one electronic resource (database) to include drug interactions, adverse reactions, geriatric considerations, patient information, or any other pharmaceutical information, even clinical practice guidelines. Additionally, these databases can easily be updated to represent the most accurate information at the time of access versus the publication lag time associated with print resources. Electronic DI resources are limitless as to their amount of information, and for this reason utilization trends among pharmacy professionals appear to be shifting from paper-based resources to Internet-based resources (1). Even with the proliferation of electronic DI resources, studies cataloging which or what type of elec-tronic resources a pharmacy has available for use are sparse (2).The primary purpose of this study was to assess availability of electronic resources within Alabama pharmacy facilities. With utilization trends favoring electronic resources for all types of pharmacies, it is viewed that this study is especially important. No study cataloging availability and use of electronic resources has been performed for Alabama pharmacies or, to the authors' knowledge, within the United States. o B J E C t i V E STwo objectives were identified for this study. The first objective was to identify available electronic DI resources in Alabama pharmac...