APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certificate Training Program
This is a two-day continuing education course, with both an online and in-person component. 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.
APhA’s 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.
What you'll learn
The goal of this certificate program is to educate pharmacists about:
- The impact of vaccines on public health, resources to promote public health through immunizations.
- A pharmacists’ roles in immunization, how to read an immunization schedule and identify appropriate vaccines for individuals across the life span and with special needs.
- Immunologic principles of vaccine development and immunizations.
- Vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines used to prevent them.
- How to safely administer vaccines to patients via subcutaneous, intramuscular, intranasal, and intradermal routes.
- How to operate an immunization service in compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
- Requirements for pharmacists who provide immunization services, how to stay up-to-date on vaccines and their use.
Faculty
Rebecca K. Kavanagh, Pharm.D., BCACP, AAHIVP
Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care, Pharmacy Practice Department Director, Co-Curriculum and Developmental Portfolios
Touro College of Pharmacy
President, Royal Counties Society of Health-system Pharmacists
Keith T. Veltri, BPharm., PharmD., BCPS
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Touro College of Pharmacy
When and Where
February 21 (9am-5pm) is the lecture portion of the course, delivered online via Zoom.
February 22 (10am-5pm) is in-person at Touro College of Pharmacy, 230 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027, Rooms 405 and 521
Registration
The deadline for registration is January 25 , 2021. Space is limited to the initial 75 registrants.
To register, email Dr. Michael Liu at Cheuk-Michael.Liu15@touro.edu and complete payment. Your registration will not be considered complete until you have submitted payment via check or credit/debit
Accreditation Information
The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. APhA's Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program is approved for a total of 20.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit (2.0 CEUs). The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for this activity are listed below.
- Successful completion of the self-study component involves passing the self-study assessment with a grade of 70% or higher and will result in 12 contact hours of CPE credit (1.2 CEUs). ACPE UAN: 0202- 0000-20-179-H06-P / 0202-9999-20-179-H06-P
- Successful completion of the live seminar component involves attending the full live seminar, successfully completing the injection technique assessment, and completing the online assessment and evaluation. Successful completion of this component will result in 8 contact hours of CPE credit (0.8 CEU). ACPE UAN: 0202-0000-20-180-L06-P / 0202-9999-20-180-L06-P
To obtain 20.0 contact hours of CPE credit (2.0 CEUs) for APhA's APhA's Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program, the learner must complete all components listed above, and CLAIM credit for each component. Participants will need to have a valid APhA (pharmacist.com) username and password, as well as a CPE Monitor account to claim credit. After credit has been claimed, please visit CPE monitor for your transcript. The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant’s My Training page.
APhA continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully complete the continuing pharmacy education assessment. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit the assessment a third time. The current policy of the APhA Education Department is not to release the correct answers to any of our CPE tests. This policy is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.
