Educational Competencies

Global Educational Competencies

• Think critically and solve complex problems.

• Communicate effectively verbally and in writing.

• Demonstrate interpersonal skills and a professional demeanor.

• Make rational, legal, ethical and responsible decisions.

• Demonstrate sensitivity and tolerance of the cultural, societal and economic diversity in patients.

• Assume responsibility for optimizing patient outcomes related to medication therapy.

• Identify and analyze emerging issues, products and services, in order to maintain professional competency.  Self-assess learning needs to design, implement, and evaluate strategies to promote intellectual growth and continued professional development.

Pharmacy Professional Educational Competencies

• Design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and adjust evidence based pharmacy care plans that are patient specific; address health literacy, cultural diversity, behavioral and psychosocial issues.

• Integrate and apply evidence-based knowledge of the biomedical, pharmaceutical and clinical sciences.

• Collect information to prevent, identify and solve drug related problems.

• Retrieve, analyze, and interpret the professional, lay, and scientific literature to provide drug information and counseling to patients, their families or care givers, and other involved health care providers

• Develop a patient centered pharmacy care plan.

• Monitor patients to determine if the therapy is appropriate, effective and safe.

• Effectively communicate information to patients, caregivers and other health professionals regarding rational drug therapy, wellness and health promotion.

• Document interventions and outcomes in writing.

• Provide initial emergency care by becoming certified in first-aid and CPR.

• Identify, prevent, manage and document adverse outcomes of medication therapy.

• Manage a successful patient-centered practice (including establishing, marketing, and being compensated for medication therapy management and patient care services rendered).

• Provide population-based care, through the ability to develop and implement population specific, evidence-based disease management programs and protocols based upon analysis of  epidemiologic and pharmacoeconomic data, medication use criteria, medication use review, and risk-reduction strategies.

• Manage and use resources of the health care system, in cooperation with patients, prescribers, other health care providers, and administrative and supportive personnel, to promote health; to provide, assess, and coordinate  safe, accurate, and time-sensitive  medication distribution; and to improve therapeutic outcomes of medication use.

• Manage medication use systems, through the ability to apply  patient- and population-specific data, quality improvement strategies, medication safety and  error  reduction programs, and research processes to minimize drug misadventures and  optimize patient outcomes; to participate  in the development of  medication use criteria and health policy; and help design pharmacy benefits.
   

  • Evaluate drug orders or prescriptions.

  • Accurately and safely compound and dispense drugs

  • Perform pharmaceutical calculations.

  • Insure that medications are properly administered.

  • Demonstrate expertise in informatics

•  Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with patients, communities, at-risk populations, and other members of an inter-professional team of health care  providers.