Program Overview
APhA’s The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Programis an educational experience designed to equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. The program provides comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care and incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered—as well as the services most needed—in community and ambulatory care practice settings. Participants will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results, and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions
Course Information
The goal of The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care is to teach the pharmacist how to integrate diabetes education and management into practice. This overriding goal incorporates the goal of pharmaceutical care, which is to ensure that patients make the best use of their medications and achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes. Specific program goals are to:
- Provide comprehensive instruction on current standards of care for patients with diabetes.
- Increase pharmacists’ ability to apply pharmacotherapeutic information and serve as the drug therapy expert on the diabetes health care team.
- Refresh pharmacists’ knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes and the acute and long‐term complications of the disease.
- Familiarize pharmacists with important concepts in nutrition, exercise, and weight control that contribute to optimal diabetes care.
- Provide training on the use of diabetes-related devices and physical assessments involved with optimal diabetes care.
- Describe business opportunities and roles for pharmacists in improving health outcomes for patients with diabetes.
- Apply key concepts of diabetes care, including selection of appropriate treatment approaches, to patient cases.
- Demonstrate effective communication strategies for educating patients with diabetes to manage their condition.
- Demonstrate how to perform a fingerstick for assessing blood glucose levels and inject medications with syringes or pens.
- Discuss the clinical value of CGM for patients living with diabetes
- Evaluate data from various blood glucose logs, including those generated by continuous glucose monitoring.
For a complete list of learning objectives and for all APhA accreditation information and policies, please visit APhA’s website, http://www.pharmacist.com/pharmacist-patient-centered-diabetes-care.
- Anthony Albert, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM
- CDR Kimberly Langley, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
- Mary Jo Zunic, PharmD, MHA, PhC, BC-ADM, BCACP, CDCES
Faculty displayed are all those involved with the program. To see which faculty will be conducting a given offering, please see individual current offering pages.