Practice Resources: ADAPT

Introducing ADAPT: Adapting pharmacist skills and approaches to maximize patients’ drug therapy effectiveness

ADAPT* is a unique education program for pharmacists, to maximize their effectiveness in providing medication therapy management through collaborative patient-centred care.

ADAPT will change the way you practice! Combining both online and face-to-face learning, ADAPT will assist you, as a pharmacist, in improving your patient care skills and will provide you with confidence to use these skills effectively. Skills include:

• providing medication assessments
• collaborating with health care providers
• interviewing and assessing patients
• making evidence-based clinical decisions
• documenting care, and
• developing and implementing care plans.

The pilot phase of ADAPT is now underway! Pharmacists participating in this phase will not be charged a registration fee. Instead participants will be asked to contribute to the program's evaluation.

Registration for the pilot phase of ADAPT is now closed. CPhA anticipates offering the ADAPT program again in spring 2010. Please note that a registration fee will apply to all future offerings of ADAPT - this registration fee has yet to be determined.

To be placed on a waiting list for registration for the next offering of ADAPT please complete the online prerequisite Module 1: An Introduction to primary health care - is ADAPT right for me?

Whether you practice in a community pharmacy, ambulatory care clinic or family practice setting, ADAPT will help you improve your patient care skills. Pharmacists who are able to designate time and space for patient interaction and have established relationships with physicians will benefit the most from the ADAPT program.

Want more information? Contact us at adapt@pharmacists.ca

* The Canadian Pharmacists Association’s (CPhA) ADAPT education program was developed in collaboration with the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) and the members of the CPhA-CSHP Primary Care Pharmacy Specialty Network. ADAPT is funded in part by Health Canada under the Health Care Policy Contribution Program.