Evolution and Validation 0f Practice Standards, Training, and Professional Development
Factors that contribute to successful mentorship:
Common interests
ii.
Common purpose
iii.
Desire on the part of the mentor to participate
iv.
Mentor and protégé must be able to spend time together.
Persistent and regular interaction between mentor and protégé
Formal mentoring programs can be successful, but less so than voluntary relationships.
Mentoring and critical care training
Beyond formal residency/fellowship programs, mentor-protégé relationships are essential to the
formal development of critical care pharmacists.
Developing critical care pharmacists should seek out mentors with similar interests and purpose
who can help them fill gaps in their knowledge, skills, and attitudes relative to critical care practice.
Over time, critical care pharmacists may have several mentor-protégé relationships to meet evolving
educational and experiential needs.
| d. | Experienced and successful critical care pharmacists should volunteer to mentor junior pharmacists, |
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residents, and students and take their roles as mentors seriously by being kind, helpful, supportive,
and encouraging.
SCCM Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section mentoring services: Practice, education,
administration, scholarship
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Lifelong learning by health care professionals is both a necessity and an obligation to several stakeholders.
CPD is a career-long iterative process with continuous cycles, rather than a start and a finish.
Sustained career growth and success are more dependent on CPD than on early career education and
training.
CPD should be closely integrated into daily practice and the work environment for success and
sustainability.
sustained competency of the clinical pharmacist, or both.
Pharmacist-learner (self)
Most at stake
Primarily responsible for developing a self-directed, structured approach to learning and assessment
Must develop an approach that is flexible, integrated, and capable of being sustained throughout
decades of practice
| d. | Must be prepared to commit personal time to CPD |
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Has both an obligation to and an expectation of the clinical pharmacist relative to CPD
Provision of resources
Travel funding (varies depending on institutional budget)
ii.
Access to electronic databases and literature