That there is a great deal of stress that negatively affects the the mental health of pharmacy students due to having to learn vast amount of infomation in relatively short time periods. I think this is an important claim, having personally seen how incredibly stressful learning so much compicated information can be. There are well presented points, such as how it's better to study smart, rather than hard. 

While these claims may not necessarily be novel (it's common knowledge that graduate school is difficult..) the tables and figures appear to be novel. 

Yes, there are multiple references right after states to which they are directly linked. This forms much of the basis for the actions taken on this project (the creation of these figures.)

There are no results posted, rather a disscussion addressing the potential of the creation of these figures. After reviewing them, I think that many of them are very well constructed- they aren't to verbose, they include color indications, and link concepts to visual aids (specifically with the Pharmacokinetic figures.)

There is however no evidenve presented that the result of the creation of these figures has led to improved test scores and or reduced stress on pharmaceutical students. A retrospective study done on students who used these figures and their relative test scores would be required to see if an actual difference was aquired by using these study materials.

There is no protocol; however the discussion section very clearly defines the reasoning behind why the figures were constructed the way they are. There are citations to studies which obsevred the best ways to construct visual aids, and why their visual aid construction techniques are justifyably legitiamate based on prior literature. 

The answer to this question is similar to the one above- there is a great deal of information provided which details the logic in why the autors constructed the visual aids the way they do. The autors provide clear logic as to techniques which have been proven to be effective in the construction of visual aids. 

yes- as mentioned above, a study which observed the performance of students who used these figures vs students who did not could be helpful (probably a study given much more thought than just that). But some sort of study to provide actual results would be an excellent addition to this work to prove the legitmacay of these techniques. 

I wouldn't say that this is a particularly outstanding paper in the discipline of pharmacy education- however it has done a great job to use all available prior literaure to attempt to make the best study figures possible. While it's nothing incredibly groundbreaking- it shows the actual application of studies regarding the most useful visual aid techniques. 

I enjoyed the figures (especially the pharmacokinetic ones) as well as the justification behind why the figures are the way they are. The references actually reflected information stated, and even though there was no study done regarding the actual effect of the creation of these visual aids, I believe that this study provides a great example of applying previously done research. 

I am Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kentucky who spent a semester in Pharmacy school before switching to the Research side of pharmaceuticals.