Preparing Pharmacy Students for Success in Community Pharmacy Practice

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Preparing Pharmacy Students for Success in
Community Pharmacy Practice

• Basketball Perspectives
• on the Game of Pharmacy

Daniel Brown, Pharm.D. Dean, Gregory School of
Pharmacy
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GSOP PharmD Class of 2009

• EMPLOYMENT
• 68 Community Pharmacy
• 15 Institutional Pharmacy
• 17 Post-graduate Residency

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Community Pharmacies in the U.S.

• Stores by Type (2008)
• 21,000 Chain Stores
• 17,000 Independents
• 9,000 Supermarkets
• 7,000 Mass Merchants

Over 53,000 stores
Over 3.5 billion prescriptions filled per year
Over 250 billion in annual prescription sales
Data from NACDS.org
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Inside a Supermarket Pharmacy
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Pros and Cons of Community Pharmacy

• Advantages
• Enhanced Accessibility
• Fosters Ongoing Relationships
• Potential to Influence Lifestyle Behavior

• Disadvantages
• Heavy R.Ph. Workload
• Patients Impatience
• Limited Access to Medical Records
• Product-based Reimbursement

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Similarities Between Community Pharmacy
Basketball

• Knowledge skill are not enough to succeed
• Players must shoot the ball in order to score
• Ability stems from attitude as much as talent
• Its a team sport players win or lose as a team

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Progressive Level of Skills in Playing the Game
of Basketball
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Progressive Level of Skills in Community Pharmacy
Practice

• Osteoporosis
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Cholesterol
• Brown Bag

• Smoking
• Weight Control
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Immunization

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Key Educational Goals for Developing Basketball
Skills
Basketball Game Plan
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Key Educational Goals for Developing Patient Care
Skills
Community Pharmacy Game Plan
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Millers Triangle of Clinical Competence(Assessin
g Progressive Levels of Performance)
Does
Shows How
Knows How
Knows
Miller, GE. The assessment of clinical
skills/competence/performance. Acad Med. 1990
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The Educational Pursuit of Ability(Developing
Progressive levels of Performance)
An ability, unlike a skill or an objective, is
itself a combination of knowledge, skills,
attitudes, values, motivations, and habits.
Ability
Affective
Motivation Wants to do it
Skill Is
able to do it
Knowledge
Knows how it is done
Cognitive
Quote from Zlatic, Thomas D. Revisioning
Professional Education An Orientation to
Teaching. ACCP, 2005.
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Motivation The Critical Element of Ability

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
  lighting of a fire.
• William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish
  Poet)

You miss 100 of the shots you never
take. Wayne Gretzky
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The Key to Being a Great Coach

• The mediocre teacher tells.
• The good teacher explains.
• The superior teacher demonstrates.
• The great teacher inspires.
• William Arthur Ward (1867-1931, US Author)

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Educational Strategies for Ability-Based Learning

• Active and Self-Directed Learning Activities
• Problem-Based Learning Critical Thinking
• Practice Simulations
• Experiential Learning with Reflection
• Service Learning with Reflection
• Professional Socialization

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Dimensions of Professional Ability
Personal Reliability
Interpersonal Compatibility
Patient Care Ability
Professional Capability
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My Prayer for your outcome in this endeavor
NOTHING BUT NET!
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Thank You!