Low-Dose Aspirin: the ‘Heavy-Weight’ Champion for Primary Prevention in All Patients? – Pharmacists
Low-dose daily aspirin is ubiquitously prescribed in health practices and used over-the-counter by many patients. However, recent studies and expert guidance suggest that NOT everyone is a candidate and that low-dose, daily aspirin may cause more harm than benefit in certain instances. This application-based continuing pharmacy education course provides a ‘journal club format’ discussion for […]
Pharmacy Calculations: A Review for Technicians
Pharmacy technicians are required to use pharmaceutical math skills on a daily basis. This interactive continuing education course provides a hands-on review of common calculations that will benefit pharmacy technicians at any level of experience. Whether you’re preparing for the certification exam or looking for a refresher on various concepts, this course is for you!
Crucial Conversations in Experiential Education
Do you tend to avoid difficult conversations with learners? This continuing pharmacy education course provides useful tools to assist the pharmacy preceptor in awkward, sensitive, and difficult conversations in the experiential education setting. Emerge from this session with various tips and techniques to confidently navigate these situations and ensure a successful, rewarding experience for preceptors […]
Unlocking the Case: Overcoming Challenges in the Management of Depression
With an estimated lifetime prevalence of 13-16%, depression is a very common mental health disorder seen by pharmacists in all practice settings. With 29 different medications classified as antidepressants, a large “gray” area exists in choosing therapy and managing adverse effects. This course provides guidance for several scenarios including choosing optimal therapy, switching between agents, […]
Varenicline for Smoking Cessation: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?
Varenicline has long been a staple of smoking cessation therapy. This application-based continuing pharmacy education course provides a “journal club format” discussion for pharmacists, student pharmacists, and residents to review the cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric safety data of varenicline. Join us as we apply study results in order to decide which patients would be appropriate for […]
Managing Constant Change – Tehnicians
Change is no small thing – constant change is something else entirely! This course offers insight to pharmacy technicians on how to discuss change productively. Learn tips on where and how to gain an edge over the negative impacts of change and how to be a positive agent of change in your practice setting.
Preceptor Self-Assessment: Jump Start Continuing Professional Development
How do you approach obtaining continuing education hours for relicensure? Are the hours you fulfill based on convenience, or do you participate in learning activities that are necessary for professional development or improve your skills as an educator? This course is designed to introduce preceptors to a new approach in continuing education and professional development. […]
EduCon VIRTUAL to focus on serving and succeeding in COVID-19 crisis
APC’s Denver event was cancelled, so now EduCon2020 is coming to you as a VIRTUAL conference featuring CE sessions focused on issues you’re confronting here and now … * The latest on temporary regulatory guidance for compounding during the pandemic. * Holding your team together and keeping up morale in a crisis. * Best practices […]
Entrustable Professional Activities for Experiential Education
This continuing education activity will provide pharmacist preceptors with the opportunity to learn more about using entrustable professional activities when teaching student pharmacists. This session will describe how to promote consistent outcomes based on levels of trust, as well as lessons learned when incorporating this assessment strategy into experiential education.
Delafloxacin: A bigger and better fluoroquinolone?
This application-based continuing pharmacy education activity will provide a “journal club format” discussion for pharmacists and student pharmacists ondelafloxacin, a fluoroquinolone recently approved by the FDA approved for skinand soft tissue infections. Join us to discuss the key trial leading to its approval as well as highlight clinical pearls to clarify its place in therapy […]
