Report of the 2014-2015 Professional Affairs Standing Committee: Producing Practice-Ready Pharmacy Graduates in an Era of Value-Based Health Care

Efficient and effective precepting of pharmacy students in acute and ambulatory care rotations: A Delphi expert panel study

“…7,8 Briefly, the OMP model includes these steps: (1) the laborative models of care delivery." 2 Likewise, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) residency accreditation standards mandate that resident training-primarily conducted by preceptors-include competencies in "teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge." 3 With the growth in numbers of pharmacy students and residents nationally, recruiting and training preceptors who can meet these demands and high expectations are continuing challenges.…”

Practice‐Readiness of U.S. Pharmacy Graduates to Provide Direct Patient Care

“…However, uncertainty remains in the academy as to what practice‐ready means. For example, a 2015 report of the Professional Affairs Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) recommended that the AACP should collaborate with pharmacy practice associations, pharmacy practice entities, and boards of pharmacy to define student pharmacist “practice readiness.” An ACCP report defining clinical pharmacist competencies, which are more related to direct patient care, stated, “Although many pharmacists possess some clinical knowledge or skills and perform some clinical functions or tasks, they must demonstrate comprehensive clinical competence in order to be clinical pharmacists.” This report also suggested that reporting of outcomes achieved by many doctor of pharmacy programs is based predominantly on subjective data and that the licensure board examinations only evaluate minimal practice competency . Because of the variation in expectations of practice‐ready that include many job functions that are not DPC, it would be difficult to assess the practice readiness of graduates to provide DPC.…”

A Qualitative Study Designed to Build an Experiential Education Curriculum for Practice-Ready Community Pharmacy-Bound Students

“…8 In their report to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), members of the 2014-2015 Professional Affairs Committee proposed that AACP encourage its member schools and colleges to define and inform the practice readiness of professional pharmacy program graduates. 9 The majority of student pharmacists will enter practice as community pharmacists upon graduation. 10,11 They will be expected to provide services well beyond dispensing, including medication management and reconciliation, educational and behavioral counseling, and preventive health care services.…”