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Student Pharmacists Take Top Honors at National Competitions Student pharmacists at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the University of Washington (UW) took first place in the National Clinical Skills Competition at the midyear meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Pruitt-Schutte Business Plan Competition, respectively. Tamara Spraker and Sijy Mathew from UT Austin placed first among student teams representing 102 U.S. colleges of pharma-
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cy competing for the award at the ASHP meeting. The National Clinical Skills Competition is an interactive, team-based analysis of clinical scenarios for hospital/health-system pharmacists to help patients make the best use of their medications. UW third-year Pharm.D. candidates Alisha Fewins, Dana Ling and Rachel Merrill, and second-year candidate Zsolt Hepp, created a business plan for Frick’s Rexall Drug Store in Sequim, Wash. for the NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Business Plan Competition. In it they demonstrated how the pharmacy could grow its profits if the new owner forms a junior partnership agreement with Jim’s Pharmacy in nearby Port Angeles and receives a loan to modernize the facility and expand its services.
AACP Pharmacy-based Identification and Screening for Memory Decline:
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Curricular Guide for Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy • Increase awareness of and access to tools and resources for pharmacy-based memory screening • Facilitate meaningful teaching and training activities within colleges and schools of pharmacy
Pharmacy–based Identification and Screening for Memory Decline
• Use in professional practice laboratories, geriatric practice courses, service-based learning activities and student organization activities
Curricular Guide for Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy Prepared by: Jann B. Skelton, RPh, MBA Silver Pennies Consulting
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The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy July 2009
To access and download the Curricular Guide for Pharmacy-based Identification and Screening for Memory Decline, please visit the Curricular Resource Section of www.aacp.org. The Guide was developed by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) with financial support from Eisai Inc. The development of the Guide was directed by an Academic Advisory Committee composed of AACP members with experience implementing pharmacy-based memory decline screening and identification services.
academic Pharmacy now Jan/Feb/Mar 2010