Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services

Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services is an innovative and interactive advanced competency training (ACT) program that explores the pharmacist’s role in providing travel health services to patients. This application-based activity is the first step for pharmacists interested in learning the essential skills necessary to successfully provide travel health services.

Pricing

Member Price: $195
Nonmember Price: $455

To see a list of our current partners offering this course, please click here.

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

This course contains the following contents:

Module 1: Introduction to Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services
Module 2: Collect and Assess
Module 3 Part 1: Plan
Module 3 Part 2: Plan
Module 4: Implement, Follow-up, Monitor and Evaluate

Self-Study Learning Objectives

1.1 Navigating the Opportunity of Team-based Care

At the completion of the self-study program, the participant will be able to:

Describe the extent of U.S. travel abroad and the incidence of morbidity and mortality in travelers.
Identify key factors that determine travelers’ health risk including: mode of transportation; destination; duration and season of travel; purpose of travel; standards of lodgings, food hygiene, and sanitation; lifestyle or behavior of the traveler; and underlying health of the traveler and pharmacotherapies used.
Describe the common diseases and other health problems encountered by international travelers.
Evaluate vaccines and medications commonly used in travel health.
Evaluate travel health issues of special populations including: pregnant/nursing mothers; infants/children; travelers with significant underlying medical conditions; disabled travelers; students studying abroad; humanitarian/relief workers; families adopting internationally; and people visiting friends and relatives abroad.
Identify appropriate travel health resources for patients and health care providers.
Summarize the signs and symptoms of travel-related illnesses.

Live Seminar Learning Objectives

At the completion of this application-based activity, the participant will be able to:

Distinguish the information necessary to obtain from patients to conduct a quality travel health risk assessment.
Explain elements of a 20-minute pre-travel consultation in the community pharmacy setting.
Demonstrate appropriate health risk communication and management for international travelers.
Justify the use and timing of vaccinations to prevent diseases associated with travel to certain geographic regions.
Select appropriate prescription, over-the-counter, and ancillary prophylactic and therapeutic products related to travel health.

How to Obtain a Certificate of Completion

Complete 4 self-study modules, each of which consists of an interactive eLearning module. Achieve a passing grade of 70% or higher on the self-study assessment.
Attend the full live seminar and achieve a passing grade of 70% or higher on the final assessment.
Complete all course evaluations.
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 components of the program and will be available 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's Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services is approved for a total of 10 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit (1.0 CEUs). The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for this activity are listed below.

Self-study component is approved for 6 hours (0.6 CEUs) of CPE credit. ACPE UAN 0202-0000-24-174-H06-P
Live seminar component is approved for 4 hours (0.4 CEUs) of CPE credit. ACPE UAN 0202-0000-24-175-L06-P / 0202-9999-24-175-L06-P
Target Audience: Pharmacists who have completed the APhA Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program and received a Certificate of Achievement or have previously completed an immunization training program and are authorized to provide immunizations in the state in which they practice.
Activity Type: Certificate Program
Release Date: February 16, 2024
Expiration Date: February 16, 2027 - PLEASE NOTE: NO Home Study credit granted after this date; Live Credit can only be granted within 60 days from the day of the seminar attended or before the expiration date, whichever is sooner.

Technology Requirements and Tips

Computer and Internet access is 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.

Faculty

Jeff Goad, Pharm.D., MPH, FAPhA, FISTM, FCPhA, FCSHP (Advisory Board Chair)

Professor & Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Chapman University School of Pharmacy
Irvine, CA

Merck Vaccines – Speakers Bureau; Consultant – Travax

Karl Hess, Pharm.D., APh, CTH, FCPhA, FAPhA, AFTM RCPS (Glasg

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Director of Community Pharmacy Practice Innovations
Chapman University School of Pharmacy
Irvine, CA  

Merck Vaccines – Speakers Bureau

Dennis Stanley, BPharm

Vaccine and Travel Health Specialist
Certificate in Travel Health, ISTM
Publix Supermarket Pharmacy
Richmond, VA

Merck Vaccines – Speakers Bureau

Development

APhA's Education staff involved in the review of this content declare no conflict of interest or financial interest in any product or service mentioned, including grants, employment, gifts, stock holdings, and honoraria. For a full listing of APhA Staff Disclosures, please see the APhA Disclosure Statement webpage at APhA Staff Disclosures.

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