Creating a win-win: A novel layered learning approach for assessing first-year pharmacy students' communication skills.

Background And Purpose: Individualized assessment of students in skills-based courses is essential for practice readiness, however recruiting evaluators is challenging. Our school of pharmacy offers a teaching certificate program for postgraduate year one pharmacy residents (PGY1 residents; PGY1s) which requires completion of a teaching experience. The longitudinal layered learning assessment experience (LLLAE) was designed to meet instructional needs for individualized assessment of first-year pharmacy students' communication skills and provide a meaningful teaching opportunity for PGY1s.

Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes of Candidemia Associated With Severe COVID-19.

Unlabelled: COVID-19 can cause serious illness requiring multimodal treatment and is associated with secondary infections. Studies have suggested an increased risk of fungal infections, including candidemia following severe COVID-19 though understanding of risk factors and clinical outcomes remains unclear.

Objectives: To describe clinical characteristics, outcomes and risk factors of candidemia among patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19.

Real-World Observational Review of Andexanet Alfa Prescribing and Utilization Outcomes at a Community Teaching Hospital.

Objectives: Andexanet alfa is the first approved antidote in the management of life-threatening bleeds in patients treated with Xa inhibitors. The ANNEXA-4 study was successful in reducing factor Xa levels during time of administration but lacked correlation to improved patient outcomes. Given its novel mechanism of action, U.