Pharmacy Technician Series: Understanding Depression Medications

Overview: This activity is designed to familiarize pharmacy technicians with commonly prescribed antidepressant medications that they may encounter on a daily basis. This includes a general understanding of how the medication works and common side effects. The activity will include a brief description of technician roles in helping patients with depression (e.g. A technician notices that […]

Common Drug Interactions: A Practical Review for Pharmacy Technicians

Overview:  Drug interaction alerts are extremely common, but which ones are clinically important? This course educates pharmacy technicians on common drug interactions involving both prescription and over-the-counter medications. Boost your knowledge of which medications to watch for and hear strategies on handling a drug interaction alert to apply in your practice setting!

Crucial Conversations in Experiential Education

Overview: 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 […]

Decades in Waiting: Practice Changes in the Treatment of AML – Spotlight on Enasidenib

Overview: Since the treatment modalities for AML have remained relatively stagnant for decades, the approval of enasidenib is much needed as it affords patients a first-in-class, oral, single-agent targeted therapy for a difficult to treat diagnosis. This application-based continuing pharmacy education course provides a ‘journal club format’ discussion for pharmacists and student pharmacists to evaluate […]

Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder -Review the pharmacology of buprenorphine in opioid use disorder-Describe the induction of buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder-Identify considerations for the use of buprenorphine in special populations

Pharmacy Technician Series. Demystifying the Mist: Inhalers for Chronic Respiratory Conditions

Pharmacy Technician Series. Demystifying the Mist: Inhalers for Chronic Respiratory Conditions  Pharmacy technicians commonly fill prescriptions for inhalers but rarely understand the different types of medications contained in them. Better understanding this can aid patients and the pharmacist in ensuring the medication is being used appropriately by patients.  The overall goal of this activity is […]

HIV Infection An Update on Antiretroviral Therapy – Techs

HIV Infection An Update on Antiretroviral Therapy – Techs Thirty seven years after the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was reported, 36.7 million people world-wide are living with HIV. About 1.8 million new HIV infections and 1 million AIDS-related deaths were reported in 2016. However, there has been significant progress in battling the […]

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: Pharmacist Focus on the Evolving Treatment Landscape

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: Pharmacist Focus on the Evolving Treatment Landscape Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) accounts for approximately 90% to 95% of diabetes cases and is challenging to manage, with contributing pathophysiologic abnormalities ranging from predominant insulin resistance with relative insulin deficiency to predominant insulin secretory defect with […]

New Considerations in Diabetes Management – Techs

New Considerations in Diabetes Management – Techs This issue highlights the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, sodiumglucose transport protein-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, newer insulin formulations, and the expert guideline recommendations focused on individualization of therapy. In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control reported that over 30 million people in the US (~10% of the […]

Update in Contraception: Expanding Pharmacist Roles and Responsibilities

Patients often reach out to their pharmacist with questions about contraception. Do you feel confident making recommendations and counseling patients on this topic? This course provides a clinical refresher to equip you to screen for contraceptive use or pregnancy planning, promote appropriate product selection and minimize side effects for your patients. Walk through patient cases […]