Pittenger Amy L, Chapman Scott A, Frail Caitlin K, Moon Jean Y, Undeberg Megan R, Orzoff Jordan H
University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Duluth, Minnesota.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2016 May 25;80(4):57. doi: 10.5688/ajpe80457.
The profession of pharmacy is facing a shifting health system context that holds both opportunity and risk. If the profession of pharmacy is to advance, pharmacists must be recognized as a consistent member of the health care team in all clinical settings, contributing at the fullest extent of licensure and education. One part of achieving this broad goal is to implement a new way of defining and assessing pharmacy practice skills, such as entrustable professional activities (EPA). Assessment of professional tasks and practice activities with EPAs has been successfully implemented in medical education for assessing trainee preparation for practice. This EPA model is being applied to pharmacy education to develop an assessment framework across the advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) curriculum. The APPE course directors, practice faculty members, and the Office of Experiential Education collaboratively defined a set of universal EPAs critical for pharmacists in any practice setting and would be assessed in all practice experience types.
药学专业正面临着不断变化的卫生系统环境,这既带来了机遇,也存在风险。如果药学专业想要取得进步,药剂师必须在所有临床环境中被视为医疗团队中不可或缺的成员,并在其执照许可和教育所允许的最大范围内做出贡献。实现这一广泛目标的一部分是实施一种定义和评估药学实践技能的新方法,例如可托付专业活动(EPA)。在医学教育中,利用EPA对专业任务和实践活动进行评估已成功用于评估实习生的实践准备情况。这种EPA模式正被应用于药学教育,以开发一个贯穿高级药学实践经验(APPE)课程的评估框架。APPE课程主任、实践教员和体验式教育办公室共同定义了一组对任何实践环境中的药剂师都至关重要的通用EPA,并将在所有实践经验类型中进行评估。