AdvoCaring: A Cocurricular Program to Provide Advocacy and Caring to Underserved Populations in Baltimore.

To incorporate direct patient care and service components throughout a 4-year pharmacy program to enable students to apply knowledge learned in the classroom and develop the human and caring dimensions of Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning. Groups of 10-12 students and a faculty advisor partnered with a local agency serving an underserved population of the greater Baltimore area to provide seven hours of service per student each semester. Activities were determined based on students' skills and agency needs.

Effects of health literacy and polypharmacy on medication adherence.

Objective: To determine if health literacy has an effect on medication adherence in patients taking fewer than five prescriptions (no polypharmacy), and those taking five or more prescriptions (polypharmacy).

Design: Retrospective cohort.

Setting: The Primary Care Residents' Clinic at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCUHS).