Abstract
The Children’s Cancer Hospital of Egypt (CCHE) and the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS) collaborate to offer a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree to international pharmacists holding a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy. The experiential training is provided by CCHE’s clinical pharmacist preceptors at CCHE. Clinical pharmacists at CCHE had prior experience precepting baccalaureate pharmacy students, but not Pharm.D. students when this program commenced. Therefore, the SSPPS faculty provided a live preceptor development program for select CCHE clinical pharmacists in 2017. Primary deliverables of the program included the preparation of individual preceptor development plans and experiential syllabi for program participants. Preceptor development plans and experiential syllabi were evaluated by the SSPPS faculty. Program participants were also evaluated on their assessment of learner case scenarios using introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) and advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) assessment tools created for the CCHE program. Participant performance on submitted preceptor development plans and experiential syllabi, and performance on the learner cases were all utilized for participant selection as Pharm.D. preceptors in the CCHE Pharm.D. program. This paper describes this preceptor development program, the process utilized to determine selection of Pharm.D. preceptors, and plans for providing continuing preceptor development for preceptors at CCHE.
Highlights
As the global need for advanced clinical pharmacy services is recognized, an increasing number of international programs have developed post-baccalaureate Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree programs to meet those needs
Preceptors in the Cancer Hospital of Egypt (CCHE) Pharm.D. program. This paper describes this preceptor development program, the process utilized to determine selection of Pharm.D. preceptors, and plans for providing continuing preceptor development for preceptors at CCHE
Twenty-eight clinical pharmacists participated in the live training program
Summary
As the global need for advanced clinical pharmacy services is recognized, an increasing number of international programs have developed post-baccalaureate Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree (or similar) programs to meet those needs. Pharm.D. students to provide advanced clinical pharmacy services [1,2,3,4,5]. Doctor of Pharmacy students need opportunities to practice clinical pharmacy with mentorship and supervision provided by qualified clinical pharmacist preceptors to ensure the appropriate development and provision of clinical pharmacy services independently. Experiential sites need a process to identify the best and most capable preceptors among their existing pharmacists to train Pharm.D. students and a process to provide continuing professional development of preceptor skills for their preceptors. JCPP Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process [12]
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