PHRD-622: Advanced Community Pharmacy Services

As a health care professional, the community pharmacist is expected within his/her own practice, professiona and community at large to provide and/or develop pharmacy services. This course is designed to be a sequence to PHRD 312 Pharmacy Practice Management, a general pharmacy management course. The course will concentrate specifically on advanced pharmacy services, reimbursement models, and the unique challenges of developing a service and providing patient care in a community pharmacy setting. Students will complete the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Certificate Program and receive a certificate at the end of the course. Successful completion of the certificate program will require a direct patient care component. The course may have guest speakers and include outside class assignments, interviews, and tours of different community pharmacies as well as discussions surrounding reimbursement, practicality and feasibility of services within the workflow of the pharmacy dependent on the type of setting resources. [ 2 credits ]