College of Pharmacists of BC Marshall Moleschi, Registrar

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College of Pharmacists of BCMarshall Moleschi,
Registrar

• Going upstream with Patient Safety
• Regulation of health professionals to promote and
  contribute to public safety
• May 2006

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College of Pharmacists of B.C.

• Our Mission
• To ensure British Columbia pharmacists provide
  safe and effective pharmacy care to help people
  achieve better health.

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College of Pharmacists of B.C.
DLeong

• College has a dual role
• public accountability
• regulate and support the profession
• Regulation Professional, Place, Product.

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Quality Assurance Programs

• Entry to Practice
• Quality Outcomes Specialists (QOS)
• Inquiry/discipline process
• Framework of Professional Practice (Standards)
• Professional Development Assessment Program
  (PDAP)

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Framework of Professional Practice

• Blueprint of good pharmacy practice
• Describes what BC pharmacists do and how they
  know they are doing it well
• Details Roles, Functions, Activities and
  Indicators of good practice
• Serves as B.C.s standard of practice
• Foundation for all College programs and services

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Professional Development and Assessment Program
(PDAP)

• Program purpose
• Ensure safe and effective pharmacy practice
  outcomes
• Promote continuous learning and professional
  development
• Pharmacists must have an opportunity to
  demonstrate their public accountability
  (essential to self-regulation)

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PDAP

• Six-year cycle
• One-half the membership selected every 3 years
  (2003, 2006)
• Three phases
• If standard met in Phase 1 (over 90), then
  program requirements met for the six-year cycle

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Phase 1

• If you meet the standard on either of these
  assessments, you will meet Program requirements
  for a six-year period (until August 2012)
• If you do not meet the standard, you will enter
  Phase 2 to complete another assessment (including
  self assessment)

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Phase 2

• Professional Development and Secondary Assessment
• Assessment options
• Learning and Practice Portfolio
• Knowledge Assessment
• Practice Audit (fee)
• Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
  (fee)

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Phase 3

• Individualized remediation and reassessment
• Peer Practice Committee and College staff will
  review your assessment results and work with you
  to develop an individualized remediation program
  and define your re-assessment requirements
• Participants will be required to cover all
  relevant assessment, remediation and transfer
  fees

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Other College Roles

• Entry to practice BC, Canada, International
• Drug Scheduling I,II,III,IV
• Inquiry and Discipline
• Registration
• To ensure British Columbia pharmacists provide
  safe and effective pharmacy care to help people
  achieve better health.

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Guiding Philosophy

• Catch the pharmacist doing something right!
• Linda Lytle, Retired Registrar, College of
  Pharmacists of BC
• Questions?
• marshall.moleschi_at_bcpharmacists.org
• 604.676.4201 or 866.676.4201 direct /
  www.bcpharmacists.org