Training in Medication Therapy Management

As a pharmacist practitioner or student pharmacist, having current knowledge, skills and clinical training is essential to provide high quality MTM and obtain the best outcomes for your patients. APhA is the leading provider of targeted and informative MTM continuing education programs. Whether you are just starting out as an MTM provider, want to brush up on specific clinical skills or obtain certification through a full line of certificate training programs, APhA has what you need to guide your continual professional development plan.

›› Certificate Training Program – Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services in the Community – 20 hours of CE materials on delivering MTM services in your community.

MTM Monographs Series – Providing pharmacists and student pharmacists with a complete range of MTM educational programs that cover diverse topics on beginning and advanced MTM services.

›› Applying Principles to Optimize Care of Patients With Overactive Bladder – Overactive bladder is a common and distressing complex of lower urinary tract symptoms that lead to strong, sudden, and unpredictable urges to urinate and sometimes culminate in episodes of incontinence. By applying the principles of medication therapy management to the care of patients with overactive bladder, pharmacists can make a number of medication and disease-related interventions that help to ensure treatment success.

›› Applying Principles to Optimize Care of Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease – Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive—and ultimately fatal—neurodegenerative disorder manifested by memory impairment and cognitive disturbances that cause substantial impairment in social or occupational functioning. This monograph describes a model for pharmacist-provided MTM services and demonstrates how MTM services could improve treatment outcomes and medication use in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

›› Applying Core Elements of MTM to Optimize Care of Patients With Early Parkinson's Disease – More than 80% of adults in the United States use at least one medication per week, 7% use five or more, and 14% of the U.S. population use herbal products or supplements, often concomitantly with prescription medications. Collaborative care for individual patients treated by multiple prescribers may be lacking, which can lead to medication-related problems (e.g., duplicate therapy, adverse effects, drug interactions) and suboptimal use of medications. This monograph describes a model for pharmacist-provided MTM services and demonstrates how MTM services may improve medication use and treatment outcomes in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).

›› Opportunities for Pharmacists to Improve Medication Adherence in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – The costs associated with medication-related morbidity and mortality in the United States are estimated to exceed $177 billion per year. One important contributor to suboptimal medication use is lack of medication adherence. Suboptimal adherence has been linked to a number of adverse outcomes, including unnecessary disease progression, disease complications, reduced functional abilities, lower quality of life, and premature death.  This monograph describes a model for pharmacist-provided MTM services and explores opportunities within MTM services for pharmacists to improve medication adherence in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

›› Identifying and Addressing Medication Adherence Issues – Adherence has been defined as the extent to which a patient's behavior—including medication use, diet, exercise, and other lifestyle factors—coincides with medical or health-related advice. Medication adherence refers specifically to the degree of a patient's use of medications. One meta-analysis of the efficacy of various strategies to improve adherence found that one-to-one counseling was the most effective method for addressing adherence. This monograph discusses how medication therapy management (MTM) services provided by pharmacists and the resulting interventions and interactions between a patient and pharmacist may provide ideal opportunities to assess and manage patient adherence.

›› Applying Principles to Optimize Care of Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – As Americans live longer, a growing number of people develop chronic conditions that require ongoing use of medications. Many of these patients do not understand why they should use their medications or how to use them properly. This monograph describes a model for pharmacist-provided MTM services and demonstrates how MTM services could improve treatment outcomes and medication use in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

›› Documenting Pharmacy-Based Patient Care Services – Appropriate documentation is essential for high-quality patient care. This monograph serves to provide an overview of the documenting process for pharmacy-based patient care services and assist the pharmacist in the creation and organization of a structure to facilitate this process.

›› Creating a Patient Care Process for MTM in Your Practice – When developing MTM services, pharmacists should pay attention to a range of operations, including physical resources, training, documentation, payment, and marketing. This monograph serves to provide an overview of MTM services and how pharmacists, by providing MTM, are contributing to the safe and effective use of medications to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

›› Keys to Success in Helping Patients With Heart Failure – This monograph serves to provide an overview of HF and how pharmacists can play a valuable role in assisting patients in the management of their medications and lifestyle interventions and in helping to maximize their adherence to needed treatment regimens.

›› Applying Compliance and Adherence Principles to Optimize Care of Patients With Diabetes – Management of diabetes and comorbid conditions frequently involves the use of complex medication regimens and lifestyle interventions. Maintaining adherence to optimal diabetes schedules can be challenging, even for highly motivated patients.

Additional Certificate Training Programs—A combination of self-study and live training, these nationally recognized programs are designed to expand the roles of pharmacists in patient care.

›› Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery

›› Pharmaceutical Care for Patients With Diabetes

›› Pharmacy-Based Lipid Management