Title of the session: Emerging Roles in Pharmacy: Insights from Practice and Educating Students to Fill

Them

Introduction: As healthcare shifts into a pateient-centered, team-based model, the pharmacy profession
continues to change and adapt to meet changing demands. In this session, we will introduce 3
pharmacists who are on the leading edge of these changes. They have carved out new practice roles
that are exciting and innovative. Additionally, we will spend some time discussing how we can create
student pharmacists who are prepared to step into roles that do not yet exist.

Format: 3 hours, lectures with breakout sessions, up to 100 participants

Logistical requirements: 10 tables with 10 seats per table, projector, microphone, ability to show
powerpoint slides

Session topic: Topic B; New roles, opportunities, and responsibilities

Chair(s): Louisa Sullivan, will also invite 5 discussion facilitators (mentioned below)

Draft programme:

Speaker 1: Pharmacist from Kelley-Ross Pharmacy or Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle (or other
pharmacist involved in home visits)

Will spend 30 minutes discussing a new program in which pharmacists make home visits to heart failure
patients after they are discharged from the hospital. This program has reduced 30-day hospital
readmissions by about 50%, and the types of issues pharmacists have found during home visits will give
any pharmacist a new insight into how miscommunications may occur.

10 minute roundtable discussion on what any pharmacist might learn from pharmacist home visits to
improve patient counseling/understanding.

Speaker 2: TBD

30 minutes speaking

10 minute discussion

Speaker 3: TBD

30 minutes speaking

10 minute discussion

Speaker 4: Professor from a school of pharmacy (TBD)

30 minute presentation: Discuss ideas to improve student’s ability to identify and fill knowledge and skill
gaps, think critically and solve problems they’ve never encountered before, and confidence to build
their own new roles in the workforce.

10 minute discussion

20 minutes left for facilitated discussion with specific questions (have a speaker, chair, or other
facilitator at each table to lead discussion):
-What have you done in your practice to advance the profession of pharmacy?

-What are you excited about with regard to the future of pharmacy after today’s discussion?

-How will you prepare for emerging roles of pharmacists? What skills do you want to improve?

Type of session: Application-based

Learning objectives:

To contrast new roles of existing pharmacists with more traditional roles of the past.

To evaluate the skills necessary to prepare pharmacists for emerging roles.

To devise a list of skills that the audience would like to improve to better prepare for these emerging
roles.

To investigate methods to instill these skills in student pharmacists.