ASHP is one of the largest providers of continuing pharmacy education accredited by ACPE—the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. In accordance with ACPE’s Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education, ASHP fully supports:
- Active Learning - A basic principle and best practice in adult learning, active learning means interaction with faculty and other participants to improve learning, retention, and application of new knowledge and skills. Even in large sessions, faculty use participatory instructional techniques intended to engage you more fully as a learner.
- Learning Assessments and Feedback - The Standards call for learning assessments to be part of every activity; assessments and mechanisms for feedback to participants are part of every CE sessions.
- Activity Categories - ACPE’s Standards designate three activity types: knowledge-, application-, and practice-based. CE learning activities at the 2010 National Residency Preceptors Conference are knowledge- and application-based.
- Evaluations - ACPE’s Standards require us to develop and conduct evaluations of each CE activity. Beyond this requirement, your feedback is important to us for evaluating achievement of the learning objectives, quality of faculty, effectiveness of teaching methods and materials, and perceptions of commercial bias.
- Non-Commercialism and the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support - ACPE has adopted the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support. These standards require complete separation of continuing education and promotion. Instructional materials for CE activities, including presentation slides, undergo an intensive review process at ASHP to ensure compliance with the Standards for Commercial Support. Disclosures of relevant financial interest by everyone involved in the planning or delivery of ASHP’s CE content have been included in slides and announcements in sessions; and, in accordance with these standards, any actual conflicts of interest were resolved prior to the CE activity taking place.
Whichever ASHP continuing education activities you choose to take part in while at the Summer Meeting, we hope you’ll take home learning that “sticks” so you can better serve your patients. We’re honored to be your partner in that endeavor, and we welcome your feedback and questions to educserv@ashp.org.
Educational Objectives
Educational programs offered in this meeting were developed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of residency program directors and preceptors through instruction on important issues in postgraduate pharmacy residency training and preceptor development. The educational goal of this meeting is to provide preceptors with instruction on a variety of topics to enhance the training of pharmacy residents, to provide increased skills in developing preceptors, and to provide guidance in complying with standards used in postgraduate pharmacy residency training.
Who Should Attend
Residency program directors and preceptors (both current and prospective), deans of schools of pharmacy, directors of pharmacy, pharmacy residents, and others who are interested in strengthening preceptor development in postgraduate pharmacy residency training.
Continuing Professional Development
You may be aware of increasing interest in an approach to lifelong learning known as Continuing Professional Development (CPD)—a process of active participation in learning activities geared to helping individuals develop and maintain continuing competence, enhance their professional practice, and support achievement of their career goals.
ASHP and other national organizations support the concept of CPD which emphasizes self-appraisal, educational plan development, implementation, documentation, and evaluation. CE sessions or other activities you participate in at this meeting may form part of your own CPD self-appraisal or plan.
Poster Presentations
Poster sessions encourage registrants to informally discuss current projects in pharmacy practice with colleagues. This is your opportunity to pick up ideas from successful programs that have worked in other healthcare systems. CE credit is not available for poster sessions.
Continuing Education Information
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
Some states have special requirements for program content to meet state requirements for continuing education. Please check with your state to determine if such requirements exist and to determine if these programs meet those requirements.
For Pharmacists
ASHP determines the number of contact hours for each session. Registrants may earn up to 9.5 contact hours (0.95 CEUs) at the National Residency Preceptors Conference. Workshop participants earn an additional 8 contact hours (.8 CEUs). To initiate this process, attendees must request their CE online at http://ce.ashp.org.