the Pharmacist and Patient Centered Diabetes Care

Catalog description

Pharmaceutical Care for Patients with Diabetes is an innovative and intensive certificate program that focuses on the pharmacist's role in the area of diabetes management. The program, which emphasizes a health care team approach, seeks to foster the implementation of pharmaceutical care interventions that will promote disease self-management. Pharmaceutical Care for Patients with Diabetes is conducted in three parts: Self-study activity, online learning reinforcement activities, case studies, and a live interactive training seminar. The goals of the certificate training program are to: ? Provide comprehensive instruction in the pathophysiology of diabetes and the acute and long-term complications of the disease ? Teach current approaches to the medical management of diabetic patients, with special emphasis on nutrition and pharmacologic therapies ? Help pharmacists understand their important role as drug therapy experts on the diabetes health care team ? Provide pharmacists with information about becoming a Certified Diabetes Educator, and about other diabetes management-related credentialing opportunities ? Introduce pharmacists to their broader responsibilities as a diabetes educator, with special emphasis on communication skills and the psychosocial aspects of diabetes An APhA Certificate of Achievement is awarded to participants who successfully complete all activity requirements which include the self-study and learning reinforcement exercises, the self-study final exam, the live training seminar and the live seminar final exam. Successful completion is defined as a score of 70 percent or greater on the self-study and seminar final exams.