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Are you a pharmacist or technician with cancer patients in your general practice? Are you a new practitioner or pharmacy student? Are you interested in foundational oncology education? If you answered yes to any of these questions, plan to attend the CAPhO Oncology Fundamentals Day (OFD17), taking place on Saturday, September 30, 2017 as a full day online learning event.
Providing a systematic approach to medication counselling along with providing clear, written instructions by way of a medication chart and using the teach-back method can help and prevent unnecessary re-admissions or preventable harm from medication errors.
Are you a pharmacist who wants to learn how to think critically about the scientific evidence behind what we should or should not be doing with prescription drugs for conditions like Type 2 Diabetes, COPD, common infections, and dementia? Do you want to enhance your medication reviews by synthesizing best evidence with the values and long term interests of patients?
Learn about the Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program (POATSP) and Online Addiction Medicine Diploma developed by the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU).
Pharmacy education in British Columbia and Canada continues to advance with the profession. Over the past several decades many pharmacists have earned the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree through UBC’s Graduate PharmD Program, or other full-time or part-time programs in the US or other provinces. Learn more about the most recent addition to pharmacy education in BC: UBC’s recently approved Flexible Doctor of Pharmacy (Flex PharmD) degree program
Drug interactions between antiretroviral drugs and other medications can result in loss of therapeutic efficacy or drug toxicity.
The BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), in collaboration with the BC Ministry of Health, has released a new Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder. Effective June 5, 2017, this guideline is the provincial reference tool for all health care professionals in BC involved in treating patients with opioid use disorders.
Did you know that the combination of clarithromycin and colchicine can cause serious adverse events such as rhabdomyolysis, pancytopenia and even death? Even though concomitant prescribing of the two drugs prompts the highest level of drug interaction severity, “major” or “severe”, in all major pharmacy software programs, patients are still being dispensed this combination.
PainBC’s integrated approach to pain management includes helping patients find the most effective medications to manage their chronic pain. Well-structured medication trials with collaboration between prescribers and pharmacists plays an important role in helping identify the most effective drug therapy for a patient.
A pilot study to reduce potential hospitalizations due to preventable drug-drug interactions