Challenging Learners & Creating a Path to Success CE

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify generational paradigms and perceptions of challenging learners
2. Design a syllabus and procedures for early identification of learner challenges
3. Evaluate potential techniques for remediating challenging learners in your practice setting
4. Apply identified techniques to case scenarios

Preceptor Development/Continuing Education

Continuing Education Programs Available:

WesternU College of Pharmacy Office of Experiential Education (OEE) can provide on-site CE preceptor development programs for many of our clinical sites. If you bring ten or more pharmacists together for a CE (lunch or dinner), then we will come to you to provide the CE credit focused on improving the skills involved with precepting students on clinical rotations. Contact the OEE office at oee@westernu.edu for more information about these programs if you are interested.

WESTERNU OEE ANNUAL PRECEPTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

BUILDING A BETTER ROTATION

Learning Objectives for Pharmacists:

• List the essential components of a clinical rotation
• List the essential components of evaluating student pharmacists on rotation
• Provide examples of summative and formative feedback
• List the essential components of rotation orientation

Target audience: Pharmacists (P), Pharmacy Technicians (T)
This is a knowledge based activity
0.1 CEU’s or 1 Contact Hours
UAN #0059-0000-18-020-L04-P & # 0059-0000-18-020-L04-T
No fee for WesternU Preceptors
To earn CE credit, attendees will be required to actively participate in the entire session and
complete an online pre-test, post-test and evaluation. Partial credit will not be given.

Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy
education.

• Correlate the Stages of Learning Pyramid with preceptor roles
• List hierarchy of practice-based teaching
• List examples of how case-based learning can be incorporated into a pharmacy practice experience
• List examples of how questioning, feedback and facilitating can be used in the pharmacy practice experience they oversee.

Target audience: Pharmacists (P), Pharmacy Technicians (T)
This is a knowledge based activity
0.1 CEU’s or 1 Contact Hours
UAN #0059-0000-17-002-L04-P & # 0059-0000-17-002-L04-T
No fee for WesternU Preceptors
To earn CE credit, attendees will be required to actively participate in the entire session and
complete an online pre-test, post-test and evaluation. Partial credit will not be given.

Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy
education.

Learning Objectives for Pharmacists:

• Provide examples of how preceptor feelings about trainees have affected the training
• Diagnose a students learning needs
• Provide examples of ways to overcome challenging situations with trainees
• Explain the difference (and the impact of the difference) between teaching and learning

Target audience: Pharmacists (P), Pharmacy Technicians (T)
This is a knowledge based activity
0.1 CEU’s or 1 Contact Hours
UAN #0059-0000-17-004-L04-P & # 0059-0000-17-004-L04-T
No fee for WesternU Preceptors
To earn CE credit, attendees will be required to actively participate in the entire session and
complete an online pre-test, post-test and evaluation. Partial credit will not be given.

Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy
education.

Learning Objectives for Pharmacists:

• Identify 3-4 of the core requirements for pharmacy practice experiences that facilitate evaluations
• List 4-5 tenets of providing constructive feedback
• Provide examples of appropriate milestones/endpoints following an example of a constructive evaluation

Target audience: Pharmacists (P), Pharmacy Technicians (T)
This is a knowledge based activity
0.1 CEU’s or 1 Contact Hours
UAN#0059-0000-18-008-L04-P & # 0059-0000-18-008-L04-T
No fee for WesternU Preceptors
To earn CE credit, attendees will be required to actively participate in the entire session and
complete an online pre-test, post-test and evaluation. Partial credit will not be given.

Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy
education.

Learning Objectives for Pharmacists:

• Describe the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process
• List specific ways that the PPCP can be integrated into different types of pharmacy practice settings
• Identify ways of evaluating student pharmacists’ ability to perform PPCP activities at their facility

Target audience: Pharmacists (P)
This is a knowledge based activity
0.1 CEU’s or 1 Contact Hours
UAN #0059-0000-19-005-L04-P
No fee for WesternU Preceptors
To earn CE credit, attendees will be required to actively participate in the entire session and
complete an online pre-test, post-test and evaluation. Partial credit will not be given.

Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy
education.