Preceptor Newsletter November 5, 2021 “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ― William Arthur Ward
Katie Ellis, PharmD, BCPPS, AE-C Assistant Professor & Faculty Preceptor Patewood Children's Hospital Outpatient Center, Greenville, SC Dr. Ellis serves as preceptor for students on ambulatory care rotations in a pediatric pulmonology clinic. The experience in ambulatory care is designed to provide student pharmacists with advanced training and experience in the outpatient management of patients with cystic fibrosis and asthma. The experience will allow students to apply didactic knowledge to patient care and build general professional abilities developed in the preceding professional years. Also, the experience is designed to instill in the student an appreciation for how pharmacists are integrated into an interdisciplinary team in order to assist in optimizing pharmaceutical care.
Dr. Ellis also precepts students in a Research APPE that builds research skills through performing a systematic review, writing a manuscript for publication, creating a research protocol, presenting journal club presentations and creating a professional research poster.
From her students: "Dr. Ellis is very encouraging and gives great feedback. She allows you to shadow and then gives you independence to do tasks on your own. She gives plenty of examples on how she would like assignments done and will give you constructive feedback on how to improve for next time. She is flexible and considerate of your time. I really learned a lot while on this rotation about pediatric CF/asthma patients as well as other important skills I will need to be a pharmacist."
My Favorite Rotation Whitney Hopkins, Class of 2022 P4 students on an Academia APPE in August were tasked with writing a reflection on their favorite rotation Out of all the rotations that I have completed here at PCSP, I would say my favorite one so far was at Publix pharmacy with Dr. Tasha Coursey. It was my very first APPE, so I was a little nervous, but Dr. Coursey brought me into her pharmacy with open arms. Dr. Coursey, her partner Dr. Molly Evans, and her wonderful team of technicians took the time to orient me to the pharmacy and their computer system, so I never felt lost. I enjoyed this rotation so much because I felt like I got a very wellrounded experience in the community pharmacy world. With COVID-19 in full swing, I was able to become very comfortable educating patients about the coronavirus and the various vaccines available, as well as perfect my vaccination injection technique. Dr. Coursey was very open to questions and showing me various aspects of pharmacy that I never had the opportunity to look at in depth. I was able to spend time learning about the Statewide Immunization Online Network (SIMON) and Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP), as well as become familiar with Outcomes for Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services. Outcomes was something I was particularly excited about because it gave me the chance to talk to patients and discover if they are taking their medications correctly and if there were any medication gaps that they had. Above all I believe that one of the most valuable lesson I learned while at Publix was how to get comfortable reaching out to doctors for various reasons, such as medication refills, change in therapy, or prescription clarification. In my experience, a preceptor who is approachable and truly devoted to learning makes a major difference in how much a student takes away from the rotation. My tips to making a good rotation great would be to always orient your students to your workplace, make expectations clear at the start of the rotation, and to be open to questions as much as possible.
Journal Monitor There’s a lot in the literature about trends and improvements in experiential education. So we’ve created an easy way for you to
keep up: The Journal Monitor. In each preceptor newsletter, we’ll provide you a brief look at some current articles. And we’ll provide the source information as well so you can take a look at the entire article yourself.
IPPE students spent 2 hours each week using information from Veterans Affairs (VA) clinical dashboards and electronic health records (EHR) to perform population health activities, including women's health initiatives. Clinical initiatives included: Prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) assessments and reviewing urine drug screening for opioid safety Reviewing cervical and breast cancer screening results Assessing need for pneumococcal vaccination Lab monitoring for medication safety (such as hepatic and bone marrow toxicity association with methotrexate and sulfasalazine) Lab monitoring for diabetes screening (annual glycosylated hemoglobin, microalbuminuria, lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol)
The addition of women’s health initiatives to an established remote population health introductory pharmacy practice experience Sian M. Carr-Lopez, Lorrie Strohecker, Randell Miyahara, Yvonne Mai, Allen Shek, The addition of women’s health initiatives to an established remote population health introductory pharmacy practice experience, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2021, ISSN 1544-3191, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh .2021.09.005.
Through the pandemic, the activities were held remotely. Students surveyed increased in knowledge and confidence of population health skills from baseline to completion of the IPPE.
APPE Updates
IPPE Updates
Need to update your syllabus? There are several resources on the eValue homepage!
Updates to the SC Board of Pharmacy Inspection Form
APPE Syllabi templates Acute Care Advanced Community Hospital/Health System Ambulatory Care Elective
Don't forget to share your new syllabus with Talisha Ratliff (tpratliff@presby.edu) for our records. All APPE syllabi should be on file for each rotation.
One of the activities of the P2 Community IPPE workbook is to complete a mock inspection of the site. The form can be found here. There is a new item on the form: "The pharmacist-in-charge must be assisted by a sufficient number of licensed pharmacists and registered pharmacy technicians as may be required to competently and safely provide pharmacy services." Citation: 40-43-86(B)(4)
Preceptor Development
Three-part blog series on interprofessional collaboration that was recently published by members of our Section of Pharmacy Educators Advisory Group on the Development of the Educational Workforce: What is Interprofessional collaboration? (Part I) by Sonia Mathews Best practices for creating interprofessional collaborations (Part II) by Linsday Davis The four P's for building successful interprofessional relationships (Part III) by Ashley Smith
Upcoming Important Dates November 24-26 - Thanksgiving Break for P1-P3 students December 5-9 - American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Residency Showcase (virtual) January 12-February 18 - Spring-1 IPPE (P1-P3 students) February 21-25 - IPPE make-up week, if needed March 2-April 22 - Spring-2 IPPE (P1-P3 students) March 14-18 - Spring Break (P1-P3 students) April 15-18 - Easter Break (P1-P3 students) April 30 - All APPE evaluations due
Live Continuing Education With the Great American Smokeout coming soon (Nov 18), I wanted to make you aware of live webinar trainings being offered by Purdue/UCSF on the topic of pharmacists’ prescribing for tobacco cessation medications. Pharmacy continuing education units (2.0 hrs) and tools to assist with implementation of tobacco cessation services are provided at no cost through a grant from the National Cancer Institute. These tools include a laminated pharmacologic product guide, laminated drug interactions with tobacco smoke table, a “We are a Quit-Smoking Pharmacy” window cling, and "Ready to Quit? I can help" buttons for pharmacists and their staff members to wear on their pharmacy jackets.
Saturday Nov 6, 2021 10AM-12PM
May 1 - Class of 2023 starts APPEs
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May 6 - Class of 2022 Graduation
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Reading Rewards Congrats to Tasha Coursey, PharmD (Publix Pharmacy, Greenville, SC) for answering the
last question correctly! Your package will head your way soon! Answer this next question correctly (email to mdsmith@presby.edu) for a chance to win PCSP merch: When is the Great American Smokeout?
Office of Experiential Education
(left to right) Mrs. Lynn Thompson (Coordinator), Dr. Mary Douglass Smith (Director of Experiential Education), Mrs. Susi Carbonneau (Assistant Director of Experiential Education), Dr. Talisha Ratliff (Assistant Dean of Experiential Education)
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