Pharm.D.

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»Pharm.D. Learning Outcomes

  1. Domain 1: Demonstrate Foundational Knowledge
    1. Foundational Knowledge: Demonstrate foundational knowledge of scientific content areas and pharmacotherapeutic topics.
  2. Domain 2: Demonstrate Professional Skills
    1. Innovation: Use critical thinking skills and innovation to address challenges and promote positive change within the profession of pharmacy.
    2. Communication: Engage, listen, and communicate verbally, nonverbally, and in writing, when interacting with or educating others.
    3. Cultural Awareness: Mitigate health disparities by considering, recognizing, and navigating cultural and structural factors to improve access and health outcomes.
    4. Advocacy: Promote the best interests of patients and/or the pharmacy profession within healthcare settings and at the community, state, or national level.
    5. Patient Safety Stewardship: Optimize patient healthcare outcomes using human, financial, technological, and physical resources to improve the safety, efficacy, and environmental impact of medication use systems.
    6. Leadership: Demonstrate the ability to influence and support the achievement of shared goals.
  3. Domain 3: Demonstrate Professional Attitudes
    1. Self-Awareness: Examine, reflect on, and address personal and professional attributes (e.g., knowledge, metacognition, skills, abilities, beliefs, biases, motivation, help-seeking strategies, and emotional intelligence) that could enhance or limit growth, development, and professional identity formation.
    2. Professionalism: Exhibit attitudes and behaviors that embody a commitment to building and maintaining trust with patients, other health care providers, and society.
  4. Domain 4: Engage in Patient-Centered Care Activities
    1. Collect: Collect information necessary to identify a patient’s medication-related problems and health-related needs.
    2. Assess: Analyze information to identify medication-related problems, determine the effects of medication therapy, and prioritize health-related needs.
    3. Plan: Establish patient-centered goals and create a care plan for a patient in collaboration with the patient, caregiver(s), and other health professionals that is evidence-based and cost-effective.
    4. Implement: Implement a care plan in collaboration with the patient, caregivers, and other health professionals.
    5. Monitor: Follow-up and monitor a care plan.
  5. Domain 5: Engage in Professional Activities
    1. Collaborate Interprofessionally: Collaborate with other health care providers or students as a member of an interprofessional team.
    2. Promote Population Health & Wellness: Identify patients at risk for prevalent diseases in a population.
    3. Promote Population Health & Wellness: Minimize adverse drug events and medication errors in a population.
    4. Promote Population Health & Wellness: Maximize appropriate use of medications in populations.
    5. Promote Population Health & Wellness: Ensure patients have been immunized against vaccine-preventable diseases.
    6. Master Information: Educate patients and professional colleagues regarding the appropriate use of medications.
    7. Master Information: Use evidence-base information to advance patient care.
    8. Manage a Practice: Oversee pharmacy operations for an assigned work shift.
    9. Manage a Practice: Fulfill a medication order.
    10. Develop Professionally: Create a written plan (e.g., a CV) for continuous professional development.