An Intervention to Support Newly Admitted Students' Transition to Pharmacy School.

Objective: This study aimed to provide prematriculation intervention addressing basic needs for newly admitted Doctor of Pharmacy students, and to assess postintervention changes made by students in the transition areas.

Methods: Six transition areas were identified as basic needs that should be addressed by students before matriculation to enhance their potential for academic success. These areas included housing, commute, nonschool responsibilities and commitments (eg, childcare, excessive extracurricular activities), work, finances, and study approach.

Building the PharmD Pipeline With a Pre-Pharmacy Track for Working Adults Marketed to Pharmacy Technicians.

Objective: To describe the activities undertaken at Mercer University (MU) to establish a complete pre-pharmacy curriculum for working adults and market the program to pharmacy technicians in metropolitan Atlanta. To document post-implementation, the yield of students to the pre-pharmacy program and subsequent yield of Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students to the MU College of Pharmacy.

Methods: The level of retrospective interest in the pre-pharmacy program was measured by a survey questionnaire administered to MU PharmD students who had completed their pre-pharmacy courses in metropolitan Atlanta colleges and universities.

Counseling techniques to address male communication characteristics: an application of the extended parallel process model.

Evidence shows that the male ideology has a significant impact on men's health status. Men who adhere to the traditional masculine ideology may find messages regarding healthcare to be threatening. Pharmacists can use the Extended Parallel Process (EPP) Model to counsel men in a manner that reduces their feelings of fear and danger regarding their health while controlling feelings of vulnerability and susceptibility.

Teaching evaluation practices in colleges and schools of pharmacy.

Objective: To document teaching evaluation practices in colleges and schools of pharmacy.

Methods: A 51-item questionnaire was developed based on the instrument used in a previous study with modifications made to address changes in pharmacy education. An online survey service was used to distribute the electronic questionnaire to the deans of 98 colleges and schools of pharmacy in the United States.

Need for community pharmacist-provided food-allergy education and auto-injectable epinephrine training.

Objective: To determine whether community pharmacist-provided food-allergy education and auto-injectable epinephrine training is needed.

Design: Cross-sectional assessment.

Setting: United States.

Counseling Spanish-speaking patients: Atlanta pharmacists' cultural sensitivity, use of language-assistance services, and attitudes.

Objective: To document the types of language-assistance services available in pharmacies and the perceptions of pharmacists regarding the effectiveness of these services, and to measure the attitudes toward counseling Spanish-speaking patients and cultural sensitivity of pharmacists.

Design: Cross-sectional assessment.

Setting: Metropolitan Atlanta, Ga.

Metro atlanta board-certified specialists' attitudes toward compounding pharmacy.

Prescribers practicing in metropolitan Atlanta were surveyed to examine their attitudes about compounding pharmacy, their perceived uses and indicated needs for compounding services, and their interest in learning more about compounding pharmacy. A questionnaire was mailed to random samples of 100 prescribers in each of the following specialties: veterinary, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and dermatology, with 25% responding. Attitudes toward compounding pharmacy were measured using 21 items and a five-point response scale (1 = strongly disagree).