Predictors of Hemoglobin A Goal Attainment in Patients Treated With Insulin at a VA Pharmacist-Managed Insulin Clinic.

Showing up to appointments and adherence to treatment recommendations correlated with glycemic goal attainment for patients.

Pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and physician assistant professional students' perspectives on interprofessional roles and responsibilities.

Understanding roles and responsibilities within the interprofessional practice is a key competency of interprofessional education (IPE). Students in health professions programs can have limited understanding and perceptions of health professions, including their own and other professions. The purpose of this study was to understand students' perceptions of the roles and responsibilities of other health-care professionals.

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Dyslipidemia Management in a Required Pharmacy Therapeutics Sequence.

To describe a novel design on teaching dyslipidemia management that would help students compare and apply past and current clinical recommendations using a variety of new mechanisms. Didactic time consisted of three sections: lecture; faculty-led panel discussion; and interactive, progressive, student-driven patient case. The accompanying case studies course involved varying interactive student activities, including literature review, adverse event reporting, and immediate feedback assessment tools.

Faculty facilitators' and standardized family members (SFMs) perceptions of student teamwork during an interprofessional education simulation workshop.

Standardized patients can be trained to portray standardized family members (SFMs) for interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives to maximize student learning. To date, studies of IPE often focus on student learning outcomes rather than on the feedback and perspectives of SFMs and faculty facilitators (FFs), The purpose of our study was to examine SFMs' and FFs' perspectives immediately after participating in an IPE workshop. SFMs and FFs completed a semi-structured questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions to identify positive and challenging aspects of interactions with health professions students during an IPE workshop.

A pilot IPE workshop integrating OT, pharmacy, PT, and PA programs.

Background And Purpose: This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an interprofessional education (IPE) experience.

Educational Activity And Setting: The IPE experience included 53 student learners from occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, and physician assistant programs at the University of the Sciences (USciences). This experience used an icebreaker activity and a stroke case-based activity as the activities within the workshop.

Role of novel and emerging oral anticoagulants for secondary prevention of acute coronary syndromes.

Dual antiplatelet therapy has become a mainstay of long-term management of patients after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Mortality for these patients remains high despite current evidence-based treatment strategies. The coagulation cascade plays a role in the pathophysiology of ACS, and trials with warfarin in combination with dual antiplatelet therapy have found decreased rates of ischemic events at the expense of increased bleeding risk.