Annual Meeting Continuing Education Credit Deadline

Last Chance! 2011 AACP Annual Meeting attendees have until Friday, Sept. 16 to submit for continuing education (CE) credits by going to the Learning Management System (LMS). The LMS will allow you to complete your evaluations, print your statements of credit and maintain a transcript of the continuing education you completed during the Annual Meeting. If you have questions regarding your CE from the Annual Meeting, including access code inquiries, please contact the VCU School of Pharmacy at 804-828-3003.  

AACP Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Available

AACP will provide opportunities for student pharmacists to learn the operations of the national association involved in academic pharmacy. The rotation schedule will be 4-6 weeks and is available September – April. No students will be accepted for the month of December. The rotation is intended to be an APPE elective opportunity for a college or school of pharmacy's experiential program. Requests to participate should be coordinated by the student through the experiential coordinator of the college or school of pharmacy. For more information visit the AACP Web site. AACP will accept applications until Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 5:00 p.m. EDT. Questions? Contact Jennifer L. Athay.  

U.S. Educators Elected to FIP Leadership Positions

At the FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Hyderabad, India earlier this month, several U.S. pharmacy educators were elected to FIP leadership positions. Dr. Ralph J. Altiere, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Colorado, was elected president of the FIP Academic Section. Joining him from the U.S. are Dr. Wafa Y. Dahdal, ACCP staff, as section secretary; Dr. Vimal Kishore, Bynum & Sons, Inc. professor of pharmacy at Xavier University of Louisiana, as treasurer; and Dr. Michael Z. Wincor, associate professor and associate dean of globalization and continuing professional development at the University of Southern California, as a member at large on the section executive committee.

Join AACP at National and Regional Meetings to Promote Academic Pharmacy

As part of AACP’s continuing commitment to make academic careers more visible, we will again be exhibiting at national and regional meetings in the coming months. These include the ACCP and APHA Annual Meetings, as well as the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. We will also be attending the APhA-ASP Midyear Regional Meetings. We invite faculty or staff that will be attending any of these meetings to assist us at our booth and promote academic careers to potential educators. For more information, contact Maureen Thielemans, communications manager, at 703-739-2330 ext. 1022.

Deadlines and Reminders        

• 2011 Annual Meeting CE Deadline
  Sept. 16, 2011
• AACP APPE Application Deadline
  Nov. 1, 2011

Partner Organizations

AMCP
The Academy for Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) has released a comprehensive glossary of comparative effectiveness research (CER) terms, which can be used as a resource across a variety of healthcare settings. The Comparative Effective Research: Glossary of Terms provides succinct definitions of more than 230 CER-related terms – from "a priori analysis" and "absolute risk difference" to "validity" and "variable." To access the glossary, visit the AMCP Web site.

ASPH

The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) and the Association of American Colleges and Universities are presenting a Summit on Undergraduate Education in Public Health on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 from 8:30 a.m.– 4:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC, in conjunction with the ASPH and American Public Health Association Annual Meetings. For more information about the Summit, please visit the ASPH Web site.

Duquesne University

The Inaugural International Conference on Education in Ethics, May 1-3, 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pa., is organized by the International Association for Education in Ethics (IAEE) and the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University. Anyone wishing to present a paper at the conference should submit an abstract (500 words maximum) before Dec. 1, 2011. For more information or to submit an abstract, please e-mail Professor Henk ten Have.

NHeLP

The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) released Enhancing Medication Safety for Patients with Limited English Proficiency, a continuing education course for pharmacists and technicians. Through exercises and video vignettes, pharmacists and technicians learn to communicate with limited English proficiency patients to improve medical outcomes. Visit the APhA Web site to learn more.