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Continuting Education:
Preparation for Advanced Practice
By Sam Shimomura, PharmD, Associate Dean for College Advancement
Pharmacists in California are required to complete 30 hours individualize drug therapy with more precise dosing, more
of continuing pharmacy education every two years in order to convenient routes of administration or more palatable flavors.
renew their license. WesternU is the only California school of Health-system pharmacists need more training in sterile
pharmacy providing significant continuing education with the compounding as the California State Board of Pharmacy is
purpose of providing extensive knowledge and skill to prepare now requiring special licenses for sterile compounding
pharmacists for advanced practice and take advantage of the pharmacies with stricter requirements for education and
opportunities provided by the passage of SB493. Most of our training. Our next “Contemporary Compounding Intensive
programs cover multiple days and provide hands-on CE” is scheduled for October 23-25, 2015 and our “Sterile
workshops, small group case studies and in-depth lectures. Compounding Course” is scheduled for February 26-28,
For example, we are offering a four day course for 2016, at Cerritos College.
pharmacists who want to prepare for the certification WesternU also provides preceptor training programs, an audio
examination to become a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist continuing education program entitiled “Hospital Pharmacy
(CGP). WesternU partners with the UCLA School of Medicine Monthly” for pharmacy directors and managers, as well as
to provide the “Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine and continuing education programs to our association partners
Pharmacy” to be held at the Hyatt Century City September such as the Indian Pharmacists Association, Korean
9-12, 2015. In addition, many pharmacists need physical Pharmacists Association, Vietnamese Pharmacist Association,
assessment skills to practice in ambulatory care clinics, the California Council for the Advancement of Pharmacy
community pharmacy, health-systems and managed care (CCAP) and the California Chapter of the American Society
settings. Our next two and a half day “Physical Assessment” of Consultant Pharmacist (ASCP). In the near future, we plan
Course is scheduled for November 6-8, 2015 on the WesternU to provide courses in smoking cessation, immunization,
campus in Pomona.
Medication Therapy Management (MTM)and pharmacy law.
Nonsterile compounding is becoming a larger part of Above: Physical Assessment CE on May 29-31 instructor (l-r) Lisa Munoz, and
community pharmacy practice as clinicians want to participants Haikui Parsamyan, PharmD ’10, Kamal Patel, and Errol Scheuermann.
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Preparation for Advanced Practice
By Sam Shimomura, PharmD, Associate Dean for College Advancement
Pharmacists in California are required to complete 30 hours individualize drug therapy with more precise dosing, more
of continuing pharmacy education every two years in order to convenient routes of administration or more palatable flavors.
renew their license. WesternU is the only California school of Health-system pharmacists need more training in sterile
pharmacy providing significant continuing education with the compounding as the California State Board of Pharmacy is
purpose of providing extensive knowledge and skill to prepare now requiring special licenses for sterile compounding
pharmacists for advanced practice and take advantage of the pharmacies with stricter requirements for education and
opportunities provided by the passage of SB493. Most of our training. Our next “Contemporary Compounding Intensive
programs cover multiple days and provide hands-on CE” is scheduled for October 23-25, 2015 and our “Sterile
workshops, small group case studies and in-depth lectures. Compounding Course” is scheduled for February 26-28,
For example, we are offering a four day course for 2016, at Cerritos College.
pharmacists who want to prepare for the certification WesternU also provides preceptor training programs, an audio
examination to become a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist continuing education program entitiled “Hospital Pharmacy
(CGP). WesternU partners with the UCLA School of Medicine Monthly” for pharmacy directors and managers, as well as
to provide the “Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine and continuing education programs to our association partners
Pharmacy” to be held at the Hyatt Century City September such as the Indian Pharmacists Association, Korean
9-12, 2015. In addition, many pharmacists need physical Pharmacists Association, Vietnamese Pharmacist Association,
assessment skills to practice in ambulatory care clinics, the California Council for the Advancement of Pharmacy
community pharmacy, health-systems and managed care (CCAP) and the California Chapter of the American Society
settings. Our next two and a half day “Physical Assessment” of Consultant Pharmacist (ASCP). In the near future, we plan
Course is scheduled for November 6-8, 2015 on the WesternU to provide courses in smoking cessation, immunization,
campus in Pomona.
Medication Therapy Management (MTM)and pharmacy law.
Nonsterile compounding is becoming a larger part of Above: Physical Assessment CE on May 29-31 instructor (l-r) Lisa Munoz, and
community pharmacy practice as clinicians want to participants Haikui Parsamyan, PharmD ’10, Kamal Patel, and Errol Scheuermann.
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