2007 Annual Report - College of Pharmacy - The Ohio State University

Outreach and Engagement
The College of Pharmacy continues meaningful and mutually beneficial
collaborations with university colleagues and partners outside the academic
community. Director of Outreach and Engagement, Professor Jerry Cable,
encourages faculty to not only teach students who attend the College but also
engage in:
❖ Teaching that enables learning beyond the campus walls;
❖ Research that makes discovery useful beyond the
academic community;
❖ Service that benefits the public.
Pharmacy students learn early
in their program that outreach is
an important part of their
professional activities. Our
students involved in APhA-ASP,
Academy of Student
Pharmacists, the world’s largest
pharmacy student organization,
explore many career paths
in pharmacy today. They
attend regional meetings and
participate in patient counseling
competitions.
Throughout the academic
year they contribute their time
and energy to the many patient
care projects the organization
supports; Katy’s Kids, Heartburn
Awareness, Operation
Diabetes, Operation
Immunization, and Poison
Education.
Students find that joining ASP
provides leadership
opportunities, networking and
career development. They meet
other pharmacy students and
practitioners from all over the
world. Perhaps most
important…they extend their
learning beyond our campus
walls and discover ways to use
their expertise and energy to
benefit the public.
Current partnerships include:
❖ OSU Extension;
❖ Columbus Neighborhood Health Center (CNHC);
❖ Kroger;
❖ Cardinal Health-Life Care Alliance;
❖ Capital Park, Columbus Public Health Department
and ColumbusFree Clinic;
❖ Life-Care Alliance; Columbus Public Schools;
Central Ohio Poison Center; and Catholic Social
Services/BRC Properties, Inc.
Pharmacy students engage in immunization administration
and education, diabetes screening and education, medication
safety, brown-bag mediation reviews, assistance to senior citizens considering
Medicare Part-D plan options, health fairs/screenings and service at Central Ohio
free medical clinics. Pharmacy students contributed thousands of hours of
community service through health related events, community-based programs for
senior citizens and underserved people, tutoring, and the like.
Ken Hale, Assistant Dean for Professional and External Affairs, is involved in
developing initiatives focusing on educational outreach, such as an introduction to
pharmacy pedagogy at other Ohio universities, and is collaborating with other
Pharmacy faculty on a “K through college” medication safety programming
initiative. Dean Hale teaches undergraduate and professional students and assists
in the ongoing development of diversity initiatives in the College.
Professional continuing education (CE) is a critical component of outreach to
our professional colleagues. Jerry Cable serves as CE Administrator and is assisted
by Barbara Hegler, Program Manager. Together they administer and manage Ohio
and ACPE continuing education programs, including the 5th Annual Autumn
Symposium held September 7, 2007, as part of the College alumni tailgate
weekend. 53 CE programs were administered during this period.
Gerald Cable
Director, Outreach and
Engagement
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Partner for Promotion is a
successful example of what can
happen when Pharmacy faculty
and students collaborate with
community pharmacists to create
patient care programs.
Jennifer Rodis, Julie Legg, and
Kristin Casper, with an Excellence
in Engagement grant from The
OSU Office of University Outreach
and Engagement, set out to
respond to the need for training
and resources to assist
community pharmacists in their
quest to implement much-needed
advanced patient care programs.
Partner for Promotion program
pairs fourth-year students with
community pharmacists
interested in advancing patient
care. OSU faculty guide these
pairs through the steps to develop
an advanced patient care
program.
Everyone benefits from this
collaboration. Students learn the
process of setting up advanced
patient care programs in a
community pharmacy setting;
community pharmacy preceptors
gain access to mentoring and
resources, and the college gains
valuable advanced practice
experiential sites.