COVID-19 booster vaccination in rural community pharmacies.

This study assessed rural community pharmacists' attitudes about COVID-19 vaccine booster doses and explored whether rural pharmacies offered these booster doses. Of the 80 rural Southeastern U.S.

Identifying Priority Student Leadership and Professionalism Attributes Among Faculty, Preceptors, and Students via Modified Delphi.

To identify and build consensus on priority leadership and professionalism attributes for pharmacy student development among faculty, preceptors, and students. One hundred individuals (27 faculty members, 30 preceptors, 43 students) were invited to participate in a three-round, modified Delphi. Published literature on leadership and professionalism informed the initial attribute list.

Using Design Thinking to Explore Rural Experiential Education Barriers and Opportunities.

Introduction: Design thinking is a creative problem-solving framework that can be used to better understand challenges and generate solutions in health professions education, such as the barriers to rural education. Rural education experiences can benefit students, providers, and patients; however, placement in and maintenance of rural education experiences offer unique challenges. Design thinking offers strategies to explore and address these challenges.

Connecting Rural and Global Health Education for Workforce Development.

Healthcare workforce shortages are continuing to increase worldwide with more profound deficits seen in rural communities in both developed and developing countries. These deficits impede progress towards heath equity and global health initiatives including the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Medical training has supported the idea that having a rural background influences future practice in rural settings.

Clinical and economic outcomes of a pilot project examining pharmacist-focused collaborative care treatment for depression.

Objective: To assess the clinical and economic impact of a pharmacist-focused health management program for patients with depression.

Design: Prospective, nonrandomized, proof-of-concept investigation.

Setting: Asheville, NC, from July 2006 through December 2007.