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News From Continuing Education
and Professional Development
Dear Alumni,
We have had a busy six months since
my inaugural letter in establishing the
direction for our continuing education
efforts. Our goal has been to develop
relevant, interesting continuing
education activities that are available
in convenient formats. As such, we
began with redesigning our website
earlier this year. The next step has been
to create a website portal which will
allow you to select your desired activity,
register, take the course/post-test/
evaluation, and receive confirmation
of your CE credit—all online. With the
new infrastructure in place, you will
be able to take advantage of our new
programming which will include:
• tobacco cessation activities that
deal with the 5 A’s (Ask-Advise-
Assess-Assist-Arrange), electronic
cigarettes, alternative tobacco
products, and motivational
interviewing,
• activities in partnership with several
of our medical education company
collaborators that will be available
online,
• new CE activities developed by our
faculty based upon the survey results
from last fall which identified areas
of interest,
• and the creation of a “boot camp”
to assist pharmacists who have been
away from practice and are interested
in reentering the workforce by providing
updates in the areas of law, new
drugs, etc.
We will also offer our flagship product,
“Medication Safety Essentials,” a comprehensive
introduction to medication
safety concepts and tools—provided
in both live and on-demand webinar
formats—that meets the standards set
by the ACPE, ACCME and ANCC. The
live program will consist of a one-day
lecture series which includes an initial
interactive medication safety simulation
and a networking lunch. The on-demand
webinar series allows convenient access
to recorded content, the same covered
during the live session, and entails
topics such as a background on safety,
prescribing/transcribing/dispensing/
administration errors, RCA/FMEA/
process improvement, and error
reporting. Participants are actively
involved in creating a culture of safety
that focuses on systems-redesign as
well as outcomes for meeting patient
needs, and they will receive a
Certificate of Completion when
all modules have been concluded.
The Medication Safety Essentials
program is being adopted by the Indiana
Hospital Engagement Network (HEN).
This Network was formed in response
to the large, national Partnership for
Patients initiative. This is a substantial
national grant targeting a 40% reduction
in patient harm and a 20% reduction
in hospital readmissions. The Purdue
Pharmacy Continuing Education
program will be launched to 1,200
professionals in Indiana over the course
of the next year in furtherance of these
goals. We are currently engaged in
initial discussions with several other
state HENs who have expressed
interest in partnering on this endeavor.
In addition, we have been working
closely with the team at Krannert
Executive Education Programs to
collaborate in developing a Certificate
Program in business management
which will cover the content areas of
human resource management, finance,
marketing, business strategy, operations
and supply chain issues, and regulatory/
law. It is feasible this program could be
available as early as Spring 2013.
We have a lot on our plate, and I look
forward to receiving your input which
ensures we are developing programming
that meets your needs.
Happy Fall!
Please visit our updated website for more information about
Continuing Education and Professional Development at
http://ce.pharmacy.purdue.edu
Marlene O. Heeg
Managing Director,
Office of Continuing
Education and
Professional
Development
(765) 494-1474
mheeg@purdue.edu
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