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The ASHP Foundation’s Oncology Patient Care Traineeship is a 10-day experience during which pharmacists will be trained to establish and maintain specialized services for the management of patients with cancer. Trainees will receive individualized, intensive self-study, didactic and clinical training that teaches participants to design patient-specific pharmacotherapy; solve medication therapy problems; and work with patient care teams to develop protocols, policies and procedures for the treatment of patients with cancer.
Program Description
The ASHP Foundation's Oncology Patient Care Traineeship Program was developed to train pharmacists to practice in the oncology setting where they have the ability to positively impact and improve medication outcomes. The program includes a distance education component, ten (10) contiguous days of experiential training, and completion of post-training activities. The clinical skills developed through the traineeship, along with the long-term guidance offered by the traineeship preceptor, will position the trainee to develop oncology pharmacy services at his/her institution.
Program Timeline
Selected Trainees announced: March 2011
Self-study Program: April - July 2011
Experiential Training: August/September 2011
Post-Training Requirements: December 2011
Qualifications
Applicants must have a command of basic knowledge areas as they relate to oncology patient care, including pathophysiology, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, clinical laboratory data interpretation, clinical pharmacokinetics and medical terminology and abbreviations.
To qualify for application to the traineeship, the applicant must be a graduate of an ACPE-accredited college or school of pharmacy and be a licensed pharmacist, in good standing, in any state in the U.S., the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The applicant must have completed an ASHP-accredited residency or have 2 years experience in clinical practice. Current pharmacy residents are not eligible to apply.