Evolution and Validation of Practice Standards, Training, and Professional Development
iii.
Environment that promotes sharing and learning (clinical conferences, journal club, open
discussion and debate among colleagues, etc.)
iv.
Protected time to pursue educational opportunities
Establish a credentialing and privileging process that incorporates CPD expectations.
| d. | Aligning personal development goals with institutional priorities is mutually beneficial and may |
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increase employer support.
Employer benefits from sustained and expanded competencies of clinical pharmacist and should
incorporate into hiring, retention, and promotion decisions
Colleagues
Contribute to lifelong learning of the clinical pharmacist
Case-based discussion and debate on daily rounds
ii.
Drug-related questions
iii.
Interdisciplinary teaching rounds
iv.
Clinical conferences, journal clubs
Inclusion in collaborative scholarly activities
Benefit from lifelong learning of the clinical pharmacist
Greater quality and sophistication of contributions to team-based care of critically ill patients
ii.
Educational offerings by the clinical pharmacist
iii.
Collaboration around scholarly activities
iv.
ICU-related treatment guidelines, pathways, and protocols developed by or in collaboration
with the clinical pharmacist
Students, residents, and fellows
Contribute to lifelong learning of the clinical pharmacist
Assisting in identifying gaps in their own knowledge
ii.
Creating incentive to maintain competency through CPD
iii.
Regularly challenging applicability and relevance of professional knowledge and skills
Benefit from current, relevant knowledge and skills being incorporated into:
Teaching
ii.
Role modeling/coaching and facilitating
iii.
Mentoring
CPD is a lifelong obligation of pharmacists who accept responsibility for training future clinical
pharmacists.
| d. | The best trainees seek out the most competent teachers, preceptors, and mentors. |
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Patients
Greatest beneficiary of clinical pharmacist CPD
Providing the best possible care to ICU patients should be the biggest motivator for the clinical
pharmacist to pursue CPD.
Well-informed patients will seek out the most competent and capable health care professionals.
of the process, but that should be an integral part of each step, not a separate process.
Reflection
Self-assessment process
Evaluation and feedback from others
Coworkers
ii.
Colleagues
iii.
Employer
iv.
Patients
Pharmacy trainees (students/residents/fellows)
vi.
External peer review (e.g., organizational fellowship status; adjunct faculty appointment review)