TEACHING AND EDUCATION FIRST PLACE WINNERS:
Christine Peragine, Flay Charbonneau, Carlo DeAngelis & Susan Singh
Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Christine Peragine, Flay Charbonneau, Carlo DeAngelis and Susan Singh from Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre were awarded a 1st Place HOPE Award in Teaching & Education for their project, ‘Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre Oral Anticancer Medication Clinical Co-op Program (SOCCP OAMCCP)’.
Christine and her team recognized the need for further OAM education for pharmacy students. They developed and implemented a unique and high-value PharmD co-operative education learning opportunity focused on oral anticancer medication (OAM) management. They sought to increase the capacity for both clinical and non-clinical services offered by the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre Pharmacy (SOCCP) OAM Program.
Design: The SOCCP OAM Clinical Co-op Program launched in fall 2022 and is in its 5th successful term. Each 4-month academic semester, one University of Waterloo pharmacy student works and trains with the SOCCP OAM Team. The student assists with best possible medication history (BPMH) collection, drug-drug interaction (DDI) analysis and management, OAM baseline counselling, proactive/reactive telephone follow-up, assessment and management of OAM adherence and toxicity drug therapy problems (DTPs), and OAM program quality assurance activities.
Results: Workload tracking data suggest the co-op students increased capacity for OAM Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPSs) by +0.5 RPh FTE with a 40% cost savings. There is further opportunity to recoup operational costs if federal grants are secured and students are trained to assist with billable CPS. The average patient satisfaction score for CPS provided by the OAM trainee was 9.6/10 (n=29). Program graduates endorse the OAM co-op program and confirm it is a valuable learning experience that fills a gap in undergraduate pharmacy training.
Overall, the SOCCP OAM Clinical Co-op Program reduced CPS workload for front-line OAM-RPh, helped trainees develop fundamental medication management skills, and maintained OAM Program CPS quality. This unique RPh-led initiative successfully supported OAM education, knowledge translation, and practice-based research.
TEACHING AND EDUCATION FIRST PLACE WINNERS:
Christine Peragine, Flay Charbonneau, Carlo DeAngelis & Susan Singh
Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
Christine Peragine, Flay Charbonneau, Carlo DeAngelis and Susan Singh from Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre were awarded a 1st Place HOPE Award in Teaching & Education for their project, ‘Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre Oral Anticancer Medication Clinical Co-op Program (SOCCP OAMCCP)’.
Christine and her team recognized the need for further OAM education for pharmacy students. They developed and implemented a unique and high-value PharmD co-operative education learning opportunity focused on oral anticancer medication (OAM) management. They sought to increase the capacity for both clinical and non-clinical services offered by the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre Pharmacy (SOCCP) OAM Program.
Design: The SOCCP OAM Clinical Co-op Program launched in fall 2022 and is in its 5th successful term. Each 4-month academic semester, one University of Waterloo pharmacy student works and trains with the SOCCP OAM Team. The student assists with best possible medication history (BPMH) collection, drug-drug interaction (DDI) analysis and management, OAM baseline counselling, proactive/reactive telephone follow-up, assessment and management of OAM adherence and toxicity drug therapy problems (DTPs), and OAM program quality assurance activities.
Results: Workload tracking data suggest the co-op students increased capacity for OAM Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPSs) by +0.5 RPh FTE with a 40% cost savings. There is further opportunity to recoup operational costs if federal grants are secured and students are trained to assist with billable CPS. The average patient satisfaction score for CPS provided by the OAM trainee was 9.6/10 (n=29). Program graduates endorse the OAM co-op program and confirm it is a valuable learning experience that fills a gap in undergraduate pharmacy training.
Overall, the SOCCP OAM Clinical Co-op Program reduced CPS workload for front-line OAM-RPh, helped trainees develop fundamental medication management skills, and maintained OAM Program CPS quality. This unique RPh-led initiative successfully supported OAM education, knowledge translation, and practice-based research.