Enhance your meeting experience by participating in a workshop! You must be a full Midyear Clinical Meeting registrant and pay a separate fee to attend pre-meeting workshops.
New this year, for full-day sessions there will be an hour break for lunch; lunch is on your own.
ASHP reserves the right to cancel a pre-meeting workshop for reasons that make it impractical or unreasonable to conduct. If that occurs, each registrant will be issued a full refund.
Enrollment for these sessions is limited and they fill up quickly. There is no on-site registration available for workshops, so register soon. Registration must be received on or before November 23. (Registration for PharmPrep is available on-site.)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5
ASHP's PharmPrep Live!
Date/Time: December 5, 8:30am - 5:00pm
Workshop Fee: $60 (pre-registration) | $75 ( onsite)
Board Review Workshop: Separate fee required
Registration is limited. Lunch is on your own
Preparing for the Pharmacy Board Exam? We've got the workshop for you! Ask around faculty, advisors, and workshop alum will all agree that this is the must attend board review of the year. The editors of ASHP's PharmPrep Interactive Case-Based Board Review bring the text to life at a full-day workshop to help you prepare for the board examination to become a licensed pharmacist. The workshop will incorporate evidence-based approaches to decision making and important disease states you are likely to encounter on the board exam.
Don't forget to bring a calculator!
Design Your Residency Program Using the Residency Learning System
Date/Time: December 5, 8:00am – 12:00pm
ACPE Program #: 204-000-09-291-L04P
Contact Hours: 4.0 / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $100
Registration is limited.
New this year! In this highly focused workshop, residency program directors and preceptors will participate in interactive sessions and learn from experts how to design or redesign PGY1 and PGY2 residency programs using a systematic approach as required by the residency accreditation standards. You will emerge with ideas and tools to design, deliver, and evaluate your residency program preparedness to meet the requirements of the accreditation standards for PGY1 and PGY2 residency programs.
You must select one of the following areas when registering:
- PGY1 New Programs
- PGY1 Existing Programs
- PGY2 New and Existing Programs
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the benefits of using a systematic approach for the design, delivery, and evaluation of a residency program.
- Apply the steps of a systems-based decision process to the design of your residency program.
Manage Your Residency Program Using the Residency Learning System
Date/Time: December 5, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
ACPE Program #: 204-000-09-292-L04P
Contact Hours: 4.0 / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $100
Registration is limited.
New this year! Residency program directors and preceptors will participate in interactive sessions focused on maximizing assessments of resident performance, designing and revising resident customized plans, and designing processes for continuous quality improvement for residency programs. Participants will learn methods to establish, implement, and evaluate a plan for preceptor development. You will emerge prepared to meet the requirements of the accreditation standards for PGY1 and PGY2 residency programs.
Prerequisite: PGY1 and PGY2 residency program directors and preceptors should have attended a previous Residency Learning System Workshop or Design Your Residency Program Using the Residency Learning System.
You must select one of the following areas when registering:
- PGY1 Residency Programs
- PGY2 Residency Programs
Learning Objectives:
- Apply skills for effective implementation of the residency program assessment strategy.
- Describe and apply processes for developing and revising customized plans for residents.
- Assess different approaches for establishing, implementing, and evaluating preceptor development plans.
- Describe approaches for continuous quality improvement for your residency program.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6
Basic Statistics: A Non-Threatening Approach to the Use of Statistics in Clinical Trials
Date/Time: December 6, 8:00am - 5:00pm
ACPE Program #: 204-000-09-299-L04P
Contact Hours: 8.0 / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $200
Registration is limited to 35 participants. Lunch is on your own.
Learn how to apply basic statistical tests to research reports typically seen in medical literature. This workshop explores the most commonly used tests including: t-tests, analysis of variance, tests for equivalence, z-test of proportions, odds ratios and relative risk ratios, chi-square, correlation, and linear regression. Practical examples and problems drawn from scientific research will be used to illustrate statistical concepts and mathematical procedures. Emphasis is on the appropriate use of statistics and the interpretation of their results.
Learning Objectives:
- Define statistical terms commonly encountered in the literature.
- List various graph and numeric methods for presenting descriptive statistics.
- Discuss the major type of variables and define the general rule of probability in inferential statistics.
- Select the appropriate statistical test given the type of data presented.
- Evaluate example problems to identify the type of variables involved and the most appropriate statistical test(s) to use.
Pain Management: Optimizing the Care of Patients with Comorbid Behavioral Health Conditions
Date/Time: December 6, 8:30am - 4:30pm
ACPE Program #: 204-000-09-294-L01P
Contact Hours: 7.0 / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $200
Registration is limited to 60 participants. Lunch is on your own.
The treatment of chronic pain is one of the more common and complicated conditions addressed by clinicians in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Often the patient with chronic pain has co-morbid behavioral health conditions such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, insomnia, or substance abuse disorder. Optimal treatment can be marred by bias and emotion and guidelines can be subject to different interpretations. This workshop will assist pharmacists in best managing their patients in these situations.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify comorbid conditions that complicate the management of pain and other symptoms in the pain and palliative care population, including psychiatric illness and substance abuse.
- Assess patients to identify presence of risk factors for opioid or controlled substance misuse.
- Identify strategies to manage risk associated with opioid or controlled substance therapy, including assessment tools, urine drug screening, and treatment modification.
- Design a treatment regimen intended to optimize outcomes while managing risk, including substance abuse risk, and incorporate available treatment tools into the plan (e.g., treatment agreements, urine drug screens, psychiatric care).
Clinical Leaders Boot Camp: Practical Tools for Promoting and Establishing Services
Date/Time: December 6, 8:30am - 4:30pm
ACPE Program #: 204-000-09-297-L04P
Contact Hours: 7.0 / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $200
Registration is limited to 60 participants. Lunch is on your own.
Do you have an idea for a new clinical service or have been asked to lead a clinical initiative in your institution? As a clinician you may be challenged by these leadership responsibilities for which you have not received formal training. In this workshop, learn how to build key relationships and teams within your organization, develop your staff, track performance, and develop strategic plans. This full-day workshop will feature instructional presentations, facilitated case exercises, and lively discussion.
Topics to be covered in case exercises:
- Antimicrobial stewardship program
- Pharmacy anticoagulation management program
- ER pharmacy services
- Expanding your residency program
- Discharge education and medication reconciliation
Learning Objectives:
- Identify actions for you to meet leadership expectations that best enable your department and/or organization to be successful.
- Distinguish effective and ineffective basic healthcare financial management strategies in given scenarios and develop improvements for those strategies that are ineffective.
- Discuss an eight-step project management approach for driving change.
- Develop a preliminary business proposal to justify a new clinical program, service, or personnel.
- Apply strategies for effective pharmacy and interdisciplinary team leadership.
Managing Anticoagulation Therapy: An Advanced Workshop for Pharmacists 2009
Date/Time: December 6, 8:30am - 4:30pm
ACPE Program #: 204-000-09-298-L01P
Contact Hours: 7.0 / Application-based
Workshop Fee: $200
Registration is limited to 60 participants. Lunch is on your own.
The National Patient Safety Goal on anticoagulation has generated new opportunities for pharmacists to develop professionally in this area. Designed for pharmacists who already have some experience in managing anticoagulation therapy, this advanced workshop employs a case-based approach to developing and implementing safe, effective management plans.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify situations potentially predisposing patients to adverse anticoagulation related events and discuss approaches to initiating and monitoring anticoagulant therapy.
- Describe approaches to switching between, overlapping, holding, or reversing anticoagulants.
- Develop and communicate an anticoagulant management plan.
- Discuss approaches to establishing and revising protocols for anticoagulation therapy.
- Describe approaches to documenting and supporting continued activities related to managing anticoagulation therapy.