Continuing Education
The College of Pharmacy Office of Continuing Education is dedicated to preparing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to serve and lead through lifelong learning by providing quality continuing professional education designed to enhance professional competence, critical thinking, active learning, and skills development. Our primary target audiences are our alumni, preceptors and those pharmacists and technicians within our professional community.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Renee Cook at: rcook@westernu.edu or 909-706-3826.
2024 Date Coming Soon
WesternU, Health Professions Center, 1st floor, Classroom 1, 550 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766
- 2.1 CEU’s or 21 Contact Hours
As pharmacists expand their scope of practice under new legislation (SB493), physical assessment is a key skill necessary for advanced practice. This 21 hour course will prepare the pharmacist to obtain a history and perform a basic physical examination that will enable them to assess and monitor drug therapy. The course will employ written materials, lectures, demonstrations and hands on practice and feedback. Click here for more information.
“As a practicing in-patient hospital pharmacist, the more information I know about the patient, the better. The Physical Assessment Course at WesternU provided me with the necessary tools needed to understand the H&P in-depth and teaches pharmacists how to become knowledgeable of the different Physical Assessment skills utilized in healthcare to ensure correct assessment and monitoring of drug therapy. The Advance Practice Pharmacist will need to know how a Physical Assessment is done, which will help any pharmacist in any field.”
Dennis Andrew Ancheta, PharmD, BCPS, CGP
“I want to take a moment to thank the team from WesternU, College of Pharmacy for training our ambulatory care pharmacists in the much needed skills of comprehensive physical assessment. The program was top notch and focused on improving our clinical pharmacists capabilities during face-to-face clinic visits. We are now more strategically positioned for our ever-expanding population health management model that seeks to amplify the hard work of our primary care physicians by managing the challenging and time-consuming multiple chronic diseases between those critical primary care doctor visits. This is effective team-based care and our outcomes in diabetes, CODP, CHF, CAD, hepatitis C are impressive and helped our medical group achieve a five star rating from the IHA – one of only 6 medical groups in California to obtain this honor. The training has transformed our pharmacist patient encounters and now we are referring these patients back to our PCP’s with issues identified during these assessments. The possibilities now remain endless for our pharmacists – as we create our own future instead of waiting for it to arrive.”
Brian Hodgkins, PharmD, FCSHP, FASHPEVP
Clinical Operations & HPN ACO
Desert Oasis Healthcare
2024 Date Coming Soon
Online Zoom Presentation
- 0.6 CEU’s or 6 Contact Hours Web Based Self Study Modules with Case Studies and assessment exam
- 4.0 hour (0.40 CEU) live seminar with assessment exam
APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services (2nd Edition) is an innovative and interactive advanced competency training (ACT) program that explores the pharmacist’s role in providing travel health services to patients. This application-based activity is the first step for pharmacists interested in learning the essential skills necessary to successfully provide travel health services. Click Here for the flyer and more information.
November 7, 9 & 11, 2023
Nov. 7 & 9 – Zoom – 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Nov. 11 – In Person Practicum
2.0 CEU’s or 20 Contact Hours
Western University of Health Sciences
Health Professions Center
550 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA, 91766
The American Pharmacists Association’s (APhA) Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program is based on national educational standards for immunization training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This practice-based curriculum represents a fusion of science and clinical pharmacy. The program, which emphasizes a health care team approach, seeks to foster the implementation of interventions that will promote disease
prevention and public health. The purpose of this certificate training program is to prepare pharmacists with comprehensive knowledge, skills, and resources
necessary to provide immunization services to patients across the life span. Click Here for more information.
New Dates Coming Soon
2.3 CEU’s or 23 Contact Hours
Zoom Online Presentation
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) developed The Pharmacist and Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program, is an educational experience designed to equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. The program provides comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care and incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered—as well as the services most needed—in community and ambulatory care practice settings. Participants will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions. Click Here for the flyer and more information.
2023 Dates Coming Soon
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
0.6 CEU’s or 6 Contact Hours
Western University of Health Sciences
Health Professions Center
550 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA, 91766
Originally developed by Washington State University (WSU) and recently revised
through a partnership between WSU and the American Pharmacists Association
(APhA), the APhA/WSU Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by
Pharmacy Technicians training program explores the expanding role of the
pharmacy technician by providing additional skills training to administer
immunizations. This two-part program emphasizes a health care team
collaboration between pharmacists and technicians which seeks to improve
population health by increasing immunization rates in states that allow
technicians to immunize.
Composed of an online self-study component combined with a live seminar that
teaches hands-on immunization techniques, this program will provide a total of
six hours of continuing education for technicians and pharmacists.
2023 Dates Coming Soon
2.1 CEU’s or 21 Contact Hours
Online Zoom Presentation
APhA’s Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services presents a systematic approach for developing, implementing, delivering, and sustaining MTM services. It includes an overview of the marketplace for delivering MTM services, guidance for implementing MTM services in pharmacy practice, a review of the essential skills and knowledge needed for performing MTM successfully, and an organized process for identifying medication-related problems. The purpose of this certificate training program is to prepare pharmacists to improve
medication use through the delivery of MTM services in a variety of practice settings. Click Here for the flyer and more information.
2023 Dates Coming Soon
0.6 CEU’s or 6 Contact Hours
Western University of Health Sciences
Health Professions Center
550 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA, 91766
For pharmacists and pharmacy technicians engaged in preparing compounded sterile preparations (CSP). This course puts forward up-to date knowledge, key skills and hands-on training on aseptic techniques, all in a one day workshop. The contents focus on the standards and best practices before a CSP reaches a patient. The material is thorough and balanced to ensure an easy-flow of information. At the end of the course, you are expected to be well-versed and equipped with skills to further your career or reinforce your knowledge base.
2023 Dates Coming Soon
1.8 CEU’s or 18 Contact Hours
Western University of Health Sciences
Health Professions Center
550 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA, 91766
Non-sterile compounded medications often play an extremely important role in the quality of patient care and prescribers have become increasingly aware of the benefits that customized medications offer. The pharmacist and pharmacy technician must have a strong foundation on how to prepare these products. Technology has provided the equipment and techniques necessary to compound effectively and accurately. To prepare participants to meet the needs of patients, we have designed a program that will provide the pharmacist and technician the knowledge and skills to prepare the highest quality of compounded medications and services. As part of the course, attendees will receive a template of a policy and procedure manual.
2023 Dates Coming Soon
2.0 CEU’s or 20 Contact Hours
Health-system pharmacists and technicians need more training in sterile compounding as the California State Board of Pharmacy is now requiring special licenses for sterile compounding pharmacies with stricter requirements for education and training of staff. This course provides sterile compounding lectures, demonstrations and hands on practice as well as the applicable training in the standards, regulations and laws.