The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE)

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The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education
(ACPE)

• Library and Learning Resources Subcommittee
• Students Subcommittee
• Faculty Subcommittee
• Physical and Practice Facilities Subcommittee
• Financial Resources Subcommittee
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Mission, Planning and Assessment Subcommittee
• Organization and Administration Subcommittee
• Self Study Parent Committee

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The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education
(ACPE)
Accreditation Survey Progress Target Group
Respondents Response Rate ACPE Student
Survey P1 (2008) 93 76.2 P2 (2007) 97
85.1 P3 (2006) 86 71.1 P4 (2005) 79
79.8 Overall 355 77.9 ACPE Faculty
Survey 43 100.0 ACPE Alumni Survey 47
15.1 ACPE Preceptor Survey1 26 14.0
Notes 100 response rate based on the
participation of all full-time active faculty.
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The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education
(ACPE)Standard No. 3. Systematic Assessment of
AchievementStandard No. 13. Evaluation of
Student AchievementStandard No. 14. Curriculum
Evaluation
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Standard No. 3. Systematic Assessment of
Achievement
The College or School should show evidence of
using analysis of outcome measures throughout the
educational, research, service, and pharmacy
practice programs, for purposes of continuing
development and improvement, including revisions
in curriculum, and modifications of faculty and
student policies.
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Standard No. 13. Evaluation of Student
Achievement

• The College or School of Pharmacy should
  establish principles and methods for the
  formative and summative evaluation of student
  achievement.

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Standard No. 14. Curriculum Evaluation

• Evaluation measures focusing on the efficacy of
  the curricular structure, content, process, and
  outcomes should be systematically and
  sequentially applied throughout the curriculum in
  pharmacy. Evidence should exist that evaluation
  outcomes, including student achievement data, are
  applied to modify or revise the professional
  program in pharmacy.

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Curricular AssessmentSurvey Breakdown

• Last Semesters P1 P3 Fall Semester
• Graduating Class P4 Spring Semester
• Alumni 13- 5 years out
• Early Assurance vs.
• PharmCAS applicants

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Curricular Survey SummaryGraduating Classes
2002-2004Degree of Preparedness
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Curricular Assessment Interpretation of the
Survey Findings

• Communication
• The students feel they are moderately prepared
  for the communication skills pharmacists must
  have in their activities. They appear more
  confident to talk with patients versus other
  health care professionals.
• Pharmacotherapy and Patient Care
• Students believe they are moderately prepared to
  recommend drug therapy and resolve medication
  related problems.
• Professional Practice
• Students feel very positive in determining the
  legitimacy of a prescription, providing
  counseling to their patients, and devising
  methods to ensure patient adherence.

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Curricular Assessment Interpretation of the
Survey Findings

• Drug Information/Pharmacoinformatics
• Students are very well prepared to collect
  information to prevent or resolve a medication
  related problem, respond to a request for
  information from another health care provider,
  and to respond to a patients request for
  information.
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Since 2002, student confidence in making
  reasonable assumptions and drawing reasonable
  conclusions when the data is incomplete has
  seemed to decrease.
• Pharmacy Management
• This was consistently the area that students
  reported they were the least prepared to do upon
  graduation.

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Curricular Assessment Interpretation of the
Survey Findings

• Professional Ethics and the Health Care System
• The students confidence in recognizing and
  explaining how social and cultural issues impact
  the health care environment has shown a decrease
  to moderate level of preparation since 2002.
• Leadership
• For this question the students answered they
  feel only moderately prepared to assume a
  leadership role in community and professional
  matters.

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Overall Most Common Responses

• Have a mandatory over the counter drug class
• Have less paperwork in the P4 year
• Need more information on pharmacist to patient
  interaction (perhaps tied into communication)
• More on DME
• Learn drugs before disease
• Instructors seem to look down upon doing retail
  pharmacy when most students stated they plan on
  doing that.
• Medical students are more knowledgeable about
  drugs and therapeutics in their 4th year then the
  Pharm. D. students are.

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Areas not covered in the Pharm.D. Curriculum

• Anatomy
• Herbals

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Courses that should be added to the Pharm.D.
Curriculum

• Insurance
• Anatomy
• Pathology
• OTCs
• Pharmacy Management
• More on Pharmacy Law

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Courses that should be deleted from the Pharm.D.
Curriculum

• Informatics
• Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics
• Pharmacoeconomics

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Rotation Survey breaking out different
specialties instructors

• Endocrinology - 10/6/04 - 10/13/04
• Angela Wisniewski
• Nicole Paolini
• Psychiatry - 10/19/04 -10/26/04
• Terry Bellnier
• Drug Alcohol - 10/19/04 - 10/26/04
• Abuse Gayle Brazeau
• ADHD - 10/19/04- 10/26/04
• Karl Fiebelkorn
• Dermatology - 12/7/04 - 12/14/04
• J Frederick Bennes

• Neurology - 12/7/04 - 12/14/04
• Francis Gengo
• Gastrointestinal - 12/7/04 - 12/14/04
• Timothy Bosinski
• Integrated Case Studies - 12/7/04 - 2/14/04
• Patrick Smith
• Angela Wisniewski
• Nicole Paolini
• Course Evaluation - 12/07/04 - 12/14/04 Patrick
  Smith

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Fall 2002
Rotation Survey breaking out different
specialties instructors
Fall 2004

• PHM 512
• ADHD 78.18
• CE 87.27
• Drug Alcohol Abuse 78.18
• Dermatology 87.27
• Endrocrinology 81.82
• Neurology 87.27
• GI 87.27
• Integrated Case Studies 87.27
• Psychiatry 78.18
• Average 83.63

• PHM 512
• Neurology 93.4
• Psychiatry/ADHD 79.1
• Drug and Alcohol 62.6
• Abuse /
• Gastroenterology
• Endocrinology 61.5
• Dermatology/Course 58.2
• Average 71.0

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Fall 2003 Fall 2004

• Back to Back comparisons

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On Deck

• New Student Orientation
• Admissions
• Focus Groups
• Peer to Peer
• Exit Interviews

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