Objective. To develop, deliver, and evaluate an innovative curriculum, designed to increase student pharmacists' skills and confidence in addressing unmet patient care needs and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim goals in the community pharmacy setting. Methods. Course modules developed collaboratively between the University of Washington andWashington State University focused on student pharmacist exposure to and direct application of leadership theory in addressing real world challenges. Both programs delivered the curriculum to all second-year student pharmacists during the fall 2015 and 2016. Student teams were asked to identify a new or enhanced service for a community pharmacy based on a needs assessment and the IHI's Triple Aim goals. Pre-course and post-course assessments of student confidence, comfort level in leadership Results. Pre and Post assessments of individual student progress in leadership, innovation, selfawareness, and professionalism were completed. For all confidence questions, a statistically significant relationship was found between the mean of PRE and POST scores along with a decrease in the THEN score from the PRE score indicating students felt more confident in their ability to lead. At the conclusion of the course, the students reported improved confidence in their ability to Communicate Decisions (73%), Create a Vision (64%), and Form a Guiding Coalition (55%). Conclusion.A five-module curriculum with corresponding project proposal successfully increased the confidence and comfort level of student pharmacists' in their leadership skillset.
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