{"id":6122,"date":"2014-08-28T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sop.washington.edu\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:31:55","slug":"teach-topic-changes-fast-qa-dr-doug-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/twentzel\/wordpress\/teach-topic-changes-fast-qa-dr-doug-black\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you teach when the topic changes so fast? A Q&amp;A with Dr. Doug Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hsnewsbeat.uw.edu\/story\/how-teach-about-rapidly-changing-topic-ebola\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4681\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ebola-BlackandStudents-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Black\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/twentzel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ebola-BlackandStudents-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/twentzel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ebola-BlackandStudents-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/twentzel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ebola-BlackandStudents-108x81.jpg 108w, https:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/twentzel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ebola-BlackandStudents.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Doug Black, UW associate professor of pharmacy practice, confers with students in the Bracken Pharmacy Learning Center. From left are Zsolt Hepp, Mitul Patel and Tulip Younes.<\/h6>\n<p>With the Ebola virus grabbing headlines, we sat down to talk with UW Pharmacy professor Dr. Doug Black, an infectious-disease specialist, to learn more about how he teaches students about a topic that changes so fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hsnewsbeat.uw.edu\/story\/how-teach-about-rapidly-changing-topic-ebola\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/about\/news\/\">Link to SOP news archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Black, UW associate professor of pharmacy practice, confers with students in the Bracken Pharmacy Learning Center. From left are Zsolt Hepp, Mitul Patel and Tulip Younes. 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