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A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice
A continuing professional development (CPD) program for pharmacists practicing in community and team-based primary care settings was developed and evaluated using Moore’s framework for the assessment of continuing medical education. The program had three components: online lectures, a two-day traini...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32231164 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020055 |
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author | Crown, Natalie Sproule, Beth A. Luke, Miles J. Piquette-Miller, Micheline McCarthy, Lisa M. |
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description | A continuing professional development (CPD) program for pharmacists practicing in community and team-based primary care settings was developed and evaluated using Moore’s framework for the assessment of continuing medical education. The program had three components: online lectures, a two-day training workshop, and patient case studies. Knowledge (pre-post multiple choice test); attitudes, readiness, and comfort with applying pharmacogenomics in their practices (pre-post surveys); and experiences of implementing pharmacogenomics in practice (semi-structured interviews) were assessed. Twenty-one of 26 enrolled pharmacists successfully completed the program, and were satisfied with their experience. Almost all achieved a score of 80% or higher on the post-training multiple choice test, with significantly improved scores compared to the pre-training test. Pre- and post-training surveys demonstrated that participants felt that their knowledge and competence increased upon completion of the training. In the follow-up, 15 pharmacists incorporated pharmacogenomics testing into care for 117 patients. Ten pharmacists participated in semi-structured interviews, reporting strong performance in the program, but some difficulty implementing new knowledge in their practices. This multi-component CPD program successfully increased pharmacists’ knowledge, readiness, and comfort in applying pharmacogenomics to patient care in the short-term, yet some pharmacists struggled to integrate this new service into their practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-73562652020-07-31 A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice Crown, Natalie Sproule, Beth A. Luke, Miles J. Piquette-Miller, Micheline McCarthy, Lisa M. Pharmacy (Basel) Article A continuing professional development (CPD) program for pharmacists practicing in community and team-based primary care settings was developed and evaluated using Moore’s framework for the assessment of continuing medical education. The program had three components: online lectures, a two-day training workshop, and patient case studies. Knowledge (pre-post multiple choice test); attitudes, readiness, and comfort with applying pharmacogenomics in their practices (pre-post surveys); and experiences of implementing pharmacogenomics in practice (semi-structured interviews) were assessed. Twenty-one of 26 enrolled pharmacists successfully completed the program, and were satisfied with their experience. Almost all achieved a score of 80% or higher on the post-training multiple choice test, with significantly improved scores compared to the pre-training test. Pre- and post-training surveys demonstrated that participants felt that their knowledge and competence increased upon completion of the training. In the follow-up, 15 pharmacists incorporated pharmacogenomics testing into care for 117 patients. Ten pharmacists participated in semi-structured interviews, reporting strong performance in the program, but some difficulty implementing new knowledge in their practices. This multi-component CPD program successfully increased pharmacists’ knowledge, readiness, and comfort in applying pharmacogenomics to patient care in the short-term, yet some pharmacists struggled to integrate this new service into their practices. MDPI 2020-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7356265/ /pubmed/32231164 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020055 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Crown, Natalie Sproule, Beth A. Luke, Miles J. Piquette-Miller, Micheline McCarthy, Lisa M. A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice |
title | A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice |
title_full | A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice |
title_fullStr | A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice |
title_full_unstemmed | A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice |
title_short | A Continuing Professional Development Program for Pharmacists Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Practice |
title_sort | continuing professional development program for pharmacists implementing pharmacogenomics into practice |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32231164 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020055 |
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