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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

How It Works

This program is conducted in two parts: 

  1. Online interactive self-study with assessment
  2. Live Training Seminar

The live training seminar includes demonstrating competency in blood pressure testing, self-injection techniques, diabetic foot exam, and blood glucose testing, followed up with online evaluation and assessment.

 

A Certificate of Achievement is awarded to participants who successfully complete all activity requirements:

  • Successful completion of the self-study component involves involves passing the self-study assessment with a grade of 70% or higher .
  • Successful completion of the live seminar component involves attending the full live seminar, successfully demonstrate competency in the utilization and/or evaluation of these devices, and completing the online assessment and evaluation

 

APhA continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully complete the continuing pharmacy education assessment. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit the 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 policy is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.

Continuing Education

Activity Type: Application and Practiced Based

Target Audience: Pharmacists in all practice settings

Learning Level: 3

Successful completion of the entire program will result in 8 contact hours of CPE credit (0.8 CEU).

  • 4 hours (0.4 CEU) is awarded for completion of the self-study learning portion | ACPE UAN: 0202-0000-23-436-H01-P
  • 4 hours (0.4 CEU) is awarded for completion of the live training seminar | ACPE UAN: 0202-9999-23-437-L01-P

Once credit is claimed, Statements of Credit will be available online within 24 hours on participant’s CPE Monitor profile at www.nabp.net.  The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant’s "My Training” page on www.pharmacist.com.

For more information on the program curriculum or agenda, contact the Certificate Training Department by e-mailing ctp@aphanet.org or calling 202-429-7512. Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program was developed by the American Pharmacists Association.

 

 

Accreditation

The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as providers of continuing education.

 

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Course Information

Course Goals

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.

Key Learning Objectives of the Live Training Seminar

  • 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.

Course Faculty

  • 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.