Meeting the Requirements for Accreditation of an PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency Program – A
Skills Workshop
APhA Meeting the Requirements (MTR): Quality Improvement is a pharmacy residency education and
training
program created to assist programs with learning, practicing, and applying skills for quality
improvement of your residency program. Participants engage in an interactive experience that guides
you
through the review, analysis, evaluation, and quality improvement of your program structure and
materials, including learning experience descriptions, resident development plans, and formative and
summative evaluations. Join this can’t miss series to meet with experts in small group sessions for
targeted input on your program with easy-to-use checklists and thoughtful strategies to achieve
accreditation standards.
The training program is designed for pharmacy residency directors, coordinators, preceptors, and other
individuals involved in an existing pharmacy residency program administration and coordination. It is
expected
that participants have baseline knowledge of pharmacy residency program administration and facilitation.
APhA
MTR is ACPE-accredited and is comprised of a 2-hour home-study and a 2-hour live seminar for a total of 4
hours
of CPE credit for pharmacists.
Pricing
- Member Price: $279
- Nonmember Price: $379
If your company or organization is interested in offering this program to your pharmacists and/or
student pharmacists, please contact Chris
McKerrow.
Learning Objectives & Module Details
At the completion of this Application-Based activity, participants will be able to:
- List required elements of learning experience descriptions.
- Describe effective strategies for learning experience development
and
use.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify core learning experiences and
competency areas through the use of case examples.
- Discuss examples for providing formative and summative feedback.
- Identity strategies to enhance resident development plans.
- Explain the use of criteria-based tools for the evaluation of
residency
program materials and products.
- Employ criteria-based tools to systematically and critically review
and
evaluate provided examples of materials.
Live Workshop
At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Describe the use of a specific criteria-based tool, the origin of the criteria, and
the
application of the criteria as an effective strategy for quality improvement in your
pharmacy residency program.
- Demonstrate the use of a criteria-based tool in the evaluation of a provided example
of
materials from a community-based pharmacy residency program.
- Demonstrate use and application of the criteria-based tool in the evaluation of the
participant materials.
- Analyze findings from evaluation of participant’s program materials, identifying
specific deficiencies and other areas for quality improvement.
- Design specific action steps that can be used to address identified deficiencies or
other areas of quality improvement.
How to Obtain a Certificate of Completion
- Complete self-study module, which consists of a webinar, an assessment, and a module evaluation.
- Achieve a passing grade of 70% or higher on the module assessment.
- Attend the full live seminar and achieve a passing grade of 70% or higher on the final assessment.
- Credit must be claimed for each course (self-study, live seminar, and post-live training) in order
to
obtain credit.
- Participants will need to have a valid APhA (pharmacist.com) username and password, as well as a CPE
Monitor account to claim credit. After credit has been claimed, please visit CPE Monitor for your
transcript.
- The Certificate of Completion will be available online upon successful completion of all activities
on
the participant’s My Training page.
- APhA continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully
complete a
continuing pharmacy education assessment. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit an
assessment a third time. The current policy of the APhA Education Department is not to release the
correct answers to any of our
CPE tests. This is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.
Accreditation Information
The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. APhA Meeting the Requirements
(MTR):
Quality Improvement Series is approved for a total of 4.0 contact hours of
continuing
pharmacy
education (CPE) credit (0.4 CEUs). The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for this activity
are
listed below.
- APhA Meeting the Requirements (MTR): Quality Improvement Series Home Study
is
approved for 2 hours (0.2 CEU) of CPE credit. ACPE UAN 0202-0000-23-194-H99-P
- APhA Meeting the Requirements: Applying Skills in Quality Improvement Live
Workshop is approved for 2 hours (0.2 CEU) of CPE credit. ACPE UAN
0202-0000-23-204-L99-P
- Target Audience: Pharmacists
- Initial release date: March 6, 2023
Expiration date: March 6, 2026 – No credit can be earned after this date
Technology Requirements and Tips
Computer and Internet access are required to complete this activity. If you experience technical
difficulties, try a different web browser.
Please be aware that if the system detects no activity for an extended amount of time while the
screen is open in the interactive activity,
the Next button may freeze, and you will need to Restart that activity
again.
The recommendation is that if you cannot complete the activity within one sitting and need to step
away, close the activity so that your place is bookmarked.
If you continue to experience difficulties, please reach out to education@aphanet.org
with the name of
course, detail of your
experience, which web browser(s) used and if possible, screenshots.
Brigid K. Groves, PharmD, MS
Vice President, Pharmacy Practice; Science Affairs
American Pharmacists Association
Washington, DC
Disclosure: Author has nothing to disclose