Advancing Pharmacy Education by Moving From Sequenced "Integration" to True Curricular Integration.

Objectives: Traditional pharmacy education focuses on teaching content, which is affectionately known as "silos". Each topic area or discipline includes a course or an individual class session designed to impart knowledge, skills, or abilities needed for the student pharmacist to become a practice-ready, team-ready pharmacist. With expanding content and educational standards, there have been calls to simplify and streamline content.

Tirzepatide: Clinical review of the "twincretin" injectable.

Purpose: To provide an overview of the safety and efficacy, pharmacology, dosing, place in therapy, and clinical trials for tirzepatide, a novel glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) agonist for treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Summary: Diabetes is a chronic disease state with a high burden on healthcare spending and patient quality of life. Incretin-influencing agents such as GLP-1 receptor agonists have gained favor as diabetes therapeutic options due to their impact on multiple glycemic factors as well as resulting weight loss and cardiovascular benefits.