Recommendations for integration of foundational and clinical sciences throughout the pharmacy curriculum.

Introduction: Pharmacy faculty have the often difficult task of translating and incorporating existing concepts and advances from the foundational sciences into the clinical sciences and practice. This commentary focuses on content integration as a curricular and educational strategy, outcomes data from integration, and recommendations for programs employing or considering curricular integration.

Commentary: Integration of foundational and clinical sciences across the curriculum has been emphasized in accreditation standards but met with mixed reactions by faculty across different disciplines in the academy.

Evaluation of multidisciplinary and pharmacy-only student-run clinics on student's perceptions of interprofessional roles.

Background And Purpose: To determine how participation in multidisciplinary training workshops and student-run clinics impacts students' perceptions of the role of other health professions. Student perceptions from pharmacy-only versus multidisciplinary smoking cessation clinics were also compared.

Education Activity And Setting: Students from pharmacy, osteopathic medicine, physician assistant, and clinical psychology programs participated in two multidisciplinary smoking cessation training sessions, then provided smoking cessation services to the underserved population in either a multidisciplinary or pharmacy-only student-run smoking cessation clinic.

Provision of Lifestyle Counseling and the Prescribing of Pharmacotherapy for Hyperlipidemia Among US Ambulatory Patients: A National Assessment of Office-Based Physician Visits.

Background: An estimated 27.8% of the United States (US) population aged ≥20 years has hyperlipidemia, defined as total serum cholesterol of ≥240 mg/dL. A previous study of US physician office visits for hyperlipidemia in 2005 found both suboptimal compliance and racial/ethnic disparities in screening and treatment.

A health sciences student-run smoking cessation clinic experience within a homeless population.

Objective: The primary objective is to describe a professional and graduate student-run approach to smoking cessation education combined with motivational interviewing and pharmacotherapy in regard to the frequency of follow-up with a smoking cessation quitline program in the homeless population. The secondary objective is to assess participants' self-reported level of confidence, knowledge, and willingness to quit before and after participation in the student-run smoking cessation clinic.

Setting: Homeless shelter in Phoenix, Arizona.