Pharmacists at Salem VAMC play a key role in assisting affiliated schools of pharmacy and our own pharmacy residency programs with meeting accreditation standards set forth by their respective regulatory agencies. Precepting skills are vital to professional growth and development of pharmacy students, residents, and pharmacists and to the future of the pharmacy profession. Pharmacists rely on experienced practitioners to become preceptors and pass down knowledge and experience to their students and residents. Precepting involves a partnership for education, investment of time and energy, negotiation and individualization of learning activities, teamwork, coaching, evaluation of performance, and professional role modelling and guidance. Preceptors ensure that their learners attain competency at the practice of pharmacy much in the same way that the apothecary supervised their apprentices in developing the skills of the trade. Service is exchanged for education and training The purpose for this knowledge-based, live virtual series is to provide a formal curriculum for current preceptors and potential preceptors within our facility who interact with student pharmacist and pharmacy residents. This series will provide pharmacists access to peer-developed content which will offer additional knowledge and tools to enhance the experiential education process for student pharmacist and residents. Presentations are in-depth and reflect the presenter s ability to assist the audience with applying an understanding of various clinical teaching and learning strategies to improve precepting skills. The objective of this formal presentation is for preceptors to develop a personalized toolkit to assist broad preceptor development dissemination at the institution. At the completion of this knowledge-based Preceptor Development Series, the audience will gain practical knowledge and insight on the topics and incorporate the literature/data presented into daily experiential practice as appropriate. The audience will be able to effectively employ appropriate preceptor roles when engaged in teaching residents, students, pharmacy technicians, or fellow health care professionals related to the care of patients. A secondary objective of this series is to provide a regularly scheduled forum for the sharing of ideas and information relating to experiential teaching, education, research, and other program- or profession-related issues.
- Provider:Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
- Start Date: 2024-03-13 05:00:00
- End Date: 2024-03-13 05:00:00
- Credit Details: Pharmacy: 1.0 hours
- Commercial Support: No
- Activity Type: Regularly Scheduled Series
- CME Finder Type: In-House Seminar
- Measured Outcome: Community/Population Health, Learner Knowledge, Learner/Team Competence, Learner/Team Performance, Patient Health
- Provider Ship: Directly Provided
- Registration: Open to all