APhA Pharmacist & Patient Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program

APhA Pharmacist & PatientCentered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program

8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Zoom Online Presentation

Faculty – Hyma Gogineni, PharmD, MSc, BCACP, TTS

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) developed The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program, is an educational experience designed to equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. The program provides comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care and incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered—as well as the services most needed—in community and ambulatory care practice settings. Participants will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results, and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions.

Activity Type: Application and Practice-based
Target Audience: Pharmacists in all practice settings

Goals and Learning Objectives

The goal of The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care is to teach the pharmacist how to integrate diabetes education and management into practice. This overriding goal incorporates the goal of pharmaceutical care, which is to ensure that patients make the best use of their medications and achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes. Specific program goals are to:

Provide comprehensive instruction on current standards of care for patients with diabetes.
Increase pharmacists’ ability to apply pharmacotherapeutic information and serve as the drug therapy expert on the diabetes health care team.
Refresh pharmacists’ knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes and the acute and long‐term complications of the disease.
Familiarize pharmacists with important concepts in nutrition, exercise, and weight control that contribute to optimal diabetes care.
Provide training on the use of diabetes-related devices and physical assessments involved with optimal diabetes care.
Describe business opportunities and roles for pharmacists in improving health outcomes for patients with diabetes.
This ACPE activity does not provide a certification in this topic but rather advanced professional training which upon successful completion the learner will be able to download a certificate of achievement.

Accreditation Information

The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care certificate training program is approved for a total of 23.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit (2.3 CEUs). The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for this activity are listed below.

Successful completion of the self-study component involves passing the self-study assessment with a grade of 70% or higher and will result in 15 contact hours of CPE credit (1.5 CEUs). ACPE UAN: 0202-0000-18-121-H01-P / 0202-9999-18-121-H01-P
Successful completion of the online live seminar component involves attending the full live seminar, successfully demonstrate competency in the utilization and/or evaluation of these devices, and completing the online assessment and evaluation. Successful completion of this component will result in 8 contact hours of CPE credit (0.8 CEU). ACPE UAN: 0202-0000-18-122-L01-P / 0202-9999-18-122-L01-P
To obtain 23.0 contact hours of CPE credit (2.3 CEUs) for APhA's The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care certificate training program, the learner must complete all components listed above, and CLAIM credit for each component. Participants will need to have a valid APhA (pharmacist.com) username and password, as well as a CPE Monitor account to claim credit. After credit has been claimed, please visit CPE monitor for your transcript. The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant’s My Training page on www.pharmacist.com.

APhA continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully complete the continuing pharmacy education assessment. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit the assessment a third time. The current policy of the APhA Education Department is not to release the correct answers to any of our CPE tests. This policy is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.

Release Date: January 31, 2018

Expiration Date: January 31, 2021 - PLEASE NOTE: NO Home Study credit granted after this date; Live Credit can only be granted within 60 days from the day of the seminar attended.

REFUND POLICY: Cancellations made 10 days in advance of class date are fully refundable less a $125 administrative fee. If cancelled in less than 10 days, there is no refund. However, you may reschedule for the same WesternU COP/APhA course within 24 months from the date of the original course, if available

Technology Requirements: Live Seminar

The Live Seminar portion will be conducted online. To participate, the registrants must:

Join Zoom webinar by computer, tablet, or any mobile device
Must have a working camera and have video enabled throughout the entire program
Must be present for the entirety of the program to be eligible for completion of the certificate training
There is a Zoom app that can be downloaded on mobile devices through the App Store or Google Play. Search for Zoom Cloud Meetings app.
In planning to use a MacBook, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, etc., please navigate to https://zoom.us/ (using the Mac computer that will be used for the Zoom session), click on the Download link a the right side of the screen, download and install/run the installer program (named Zoom.pkg).
Join the meeting 15-30 minutes early to test that your microphone and camera is working properly and to check-in
Please refer to the following webpages to troubleshoot any audio/visual difficulties:https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362283-How-Do-I-Join-or-Test-My-Computer-Audio- https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362313-How-Do-I-Test-My-Video

The pre-course work must be completed prior to the course.
You will be mailed a kit for use during this course. Please be aware that you are required to have a person available during the course to be your partner and if that person does not live in your residence they must have proper PPE equipment.