- August AACP Careers is now online! [8/7/08]
Explore the latest career opportunities in academic pharmacy in the August edition of AACP Careers! Also, feel free to share AACP Careers with your colleagues and students.
- Experiential Education Administrator’s Workshop [7/16/08]
AACP is again offering the Experiential Education Administrator’s Workshop September 22-24, 2008 in Lansdowne, Va. The workshop will be lead by faculty and administrators with backgrounds in experiential education and knowledge of Standards 2007 and aims to provide essential background information and resources to individuals responsible for experiential education programs at colleges and schools of pharmacy. The individual registration fee is $400, with attendees responsible for their own travel costs. To learn more about attending the upcoming workshop, please contact George E. MacKinnon III, Ph.D., R.Ph., FASHP, Vice President of Academic Affairs, at gmackinnon@aacp.org or 703-739-2330 ext. 1017, or download the registration form.
- New Pharmacy Ethics Textbook Available [7/9/08]
A new textbook, Foundations of Ethical Pharmacy, by Dr. Robert A. Buerki and Louis D. Vottero, is now available from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. The new text is designed to be used in jurisprudence courses, introduction to pharmacy courses that have an ethical component and clinical rotations. A complimentary copy of the new text will be sent to all deans for distribution to interested faculty. To order the new text, go to www.aihp.org. Faculty who adopt the new text will receive a complimentary copy of Ethical Responsibility in Pharmacy Practice, the authors' parent text. The new text will also be featured at the Institute's booth at the 2008 Annual Meeting.
- Interprofessional Professionalism Behaviors [7/9/08]
An ongoing initiative developed by the Consultant Group on Interprofessional Professionalism Measurement representing the following professional organizations: American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, American Association of College of Pharmacy, American Dental Education Association, American Psychological Association, American Physical Therapy Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the National Board of Medical Examiners is conducting a survey that AACP members are invited to participate in. To complete the 2008 Survey on Interprofessional Professionalism Behaviors go to http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/449dg303a5. To learn more about this work access http://ippmg.pbwiki.com or if attending the Joint AACP/AFPC Annual Meeting in Chicago a presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, July 22 from 8:00-9:30 am entitled, Collaborative Interprofessional Professionalism: Can it be assessed among the health care disciplines?
- NABP and AACP Joint District Meeting [7/7/08]
The joint district meetings of NABP and AACP provide a unique opportunity to address not only professional issues affecting today’s pharmacy practice, but also educational matters influencing tomorrow’s pharmacists. Districts 6, 7 and 8 will hold their annual district meeting Sept. 17-20, 2008 at The Canyons in Park City, Utah. For more information, visit NABP’s Web site and click on Meetings then District Meetings.
- Motivational Interviewing Training Institute [6/23/08]
AACP, the Case Management Society of America and Auburn University have teamed up once again to offer pharmacy educators an innovative workshop, Motivational Interviewing Training Institute, that focuses on motivating patients to make life-long health behavior changes (through addressing patient ambivalence and resistance) and identifying dynamic interviewing tools. Join Drs. Bruce Berger, Bill Villaume and Jan Kavookjian on July 11–13 at Auburn University for this informative and enriching experience that has been implemented in early patient care experiences, practice labs, OSCE’s, and advanced practice experiences. Visit www.cmsa.org/aumiti for more information.
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