The Council of Deans (COD) is seeking motivated and committed volunteers to serve on COD Committees and Task Forces for the 2024–2025 academic year. Service will begin at the AACP Annual Meeting (July 2024) and conclude when the charges have been completed. Attendance at the 2024 AACP Annual Meeting is not required but encouraged. Please complete the COD Call for Volunteers online form by Friday, June 14, 2024.
The 2024-2025 Council of Deans Mentoring Committee is charged to:
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The charges of the 2024-2025 Nominating Committee are to:
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The charges of the 2024-2025 Programming Committee are to:
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The charges of the 2024-2025 Resolutions Committee are to:
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With challenges in finances, there will be more pressure to offset clinical faculty salaries. As more states grant provider status to pharmacists and new value-based reimbursement models emerge this may create opportunities for reimbursement of services by clinical faculty. This work helps to inform the Academy of the changing landscape of reimbursement for patient care services provided by pharmacy faculty and areas to capitalize on these changes.
This taskforce extends the Pilot from the 21-22 AACP Strategic Engagement Committee that was charged to:
Develop a resource guide for AACP and member institutions to advocate for payment for practice-related services from State and Federal programs. The focus of this charge is on payment for patient care services delivered by faculty employed by colleges/schools of pharmacy. Identify the potential sources of payment through State and Federal program, the current mechanisms for payment, and changes to current laws/regulations/policies that would likely increase payments to faculty (directly or indirectly) for patient care services.
Deliverable: Provide interim and final reports on their progress and outline any relevant resources on the topic that they discover in their work, so that these materials could be posted to AACP Connect Community libraries. Members will produce a white paper on their ideas.
What are the potential roles and responsibilities that exist for academic pharmacy to support, educate, and train the current and future pharmacy practices to meet societal needs while considering the impact of AI and other pharmaceutical distribution models? Areas to assess include: PharmD degrees, pharmacy technicians who are registered/certified, and impact of internationally trained pharmacists. What visions for tiered practice can be imagined: technicians, CPhT, BSPS (non-pharmacist), PharmD?
Deliverable: Provide interim and final reports on their progress and outline any relevant resources on the topic that they discover in their work, so that these materials could be posted to AACP Connect Community libraries. Members will produce a white paper on their ideas.
The landscape of post-graduate training is shifting. There is the potential for resident numbers to decrease, concurrent with generational changes of residents’ willingness to participate in Teaching Certificate Programs (TCPs) which many academic pharmacy programs have benefited from. Also, there is a role for interdisciplinary research training in T32s through NIH funded Clinical and Science Translation Awards (CTSAs). There may be an opportunity to provide training programs at academic pharmacy programs to practicing pharmacists.
Since 2019, CMS has used a change in its auditing procedure to fundamentally shift the requirements for allied health residency programs, but it has never updated its regulations or provided guidance on how residencies can comply. Auditors have begun using a so-called “direct control” requirement (42 C.F.R. §413.85) to disallow funding for everything from off-site clinical rotations at other hospitals within a health system, to the use of a health system’s name on a pharmacy residency program, to use of shared educational resources, and even for use of shared human resources and payroll across a health system, despite the fact the program regulations explicitly allow for such shared services and CMS has provided no guidance to the contrary.
Deliverable: Provide interim and final reports on their progress and outline any relevant resources on the topic that they discover in their work, so that these materials could be posted to AACP Connect Community libraries. Members will produce a white paper on their ideas.
There may be new standards that could potentially move academic pharmacy and the pharmacy profession forward. Likewise, there may be collaborative efforts amongst pharmacy school programs and with AACP (and other associations) to address standards that could be considered.
Deliverable: Programming as outlined above. Committee members will provide interim and final reports on their progress on developing this programming and outline any relevant resources on the topic that they discover in their work, so that these materials could be posted to COF and COD Connect Community libraries. Members will produce a white paper on their ideas.