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Hosp Pharm 2012;47(11):845–847 2012 Ó Thomas Land Publishers, Inc. www.thomasland.com doi: 10.1310/hpj4711-845 Preceptor Development Series The Role of a Needs Assessment Holly Phillips, PharmDp; Samaneh Wilkinson, MS, PharmD†; and Brian Buck, PharmD, FASHP‡ To strategically focus efforts related to preceptor development, it is critical to understand the importance of conducting a programmatic needs assessment. The American Society of HealthSystems Pharmacists (ASHP) publishes residency accreditation standards that provide a framework for ensuring that residency programs meet common baseline requirements. This article will discuss preceptor development challenges, describe the development of a preceptor plan based on a needs assessment, and detail strategies to enhance preceptor development activities. Key Words—PGY1, preceptor development, residency training Hosp Pharm—2012;47(11):845–847 o strategically focus efforts related to preceptor development, it is critical to understand the importance of conducting a programmatic needs assessment. The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) publishes residency accreditation standards that provide a framework for ensuring that residency programs meet common baseline requirements. The ASHP Accreditation Standard for Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) paragraph 4.3 speciﬁcally relates to preceptor development,1 stating that the residency program director will devise and implement a plan for assessing and improving the quality of preceptor instruction. Even though preceptor development is a critical component in providing a quality residency program, the standard does not provide speciﬁc direction to residency program directors (RPDs) on how to accomplish preceptor development. As RPDs consider how to comply with this accreditation standard, it is important that they consider what meaningful compliance might look like. The goals of this article are to discuss preceptor development challenges, describe the development of a preceptor plan based on a needs assessment, and discuss strategies to enhance preceptor development activities. In 2009, the University HealthSystem Consortium conducted a survey of academic medical center RPDs T to identify the most challenging preceptor-related issues.2 The results are ranked in Table 1. These results highlight the wide array of challenges that preceptors face. It also provides a few speciﬁc areas for RPDs to focus on as they begin to consider their preceptor development plan. PRECEPTOR DEVELOPMENT PLAN Assessing Needs The ﬁrst step in creating a preceptor development plan is to assess the needs of the individual program. Each residency program has unique strengths and weaknesses. Although the survey results in Table 1 can be useful, they may reﬂect only the general challenges faced day to day in any given residency program. Tools that RPDs can use to identify program-speciﬁc challenges include electronic surveys or round table discussions with preceptors. Either format will allow the RPDs to solicit feedback from preceptors. Preceptors can be asked open-ended questions, such as ‘‘What challenges do you feel are the most pressing as a preceptor?’’ The program director can also give preceptors a predetermined list of challenges and ask them to rank their challenges in order of most to least challenging. This approach is useful in that it allows responses to be easily analyzed and standardized. If the program director wants to *Acute Care Pharmacist Manager, PGY1 Residency Program Director, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado; † Assistant Director – Inpatient Clinical Services, PGY-1 Residency Program Director, PGY-2 HSPA Residency Program Coordinator, The University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas; ‡Clinical Associate Professor, University of Georgia, College of Pharmacy, Athens, Georgia. Corresponding author: Samaneh Wilkinson, MS, PharmD, Department of Pharmacy, The University of Kansas Hospital, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, MS4040, Kansas City, KS 66160; phone: 913-588-2300; fax: 913588-8840; e-mail: swilkinson2@kumc.edu. Hospital Pharmacy 845 http://www.thomasland.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospital Pharmacy - November 2012

Hospital Pharmacy - November 2012
Editorial
ISMP Medication Error Report Analysis
ISMP Adverse Drug Reactions
Cancer Chemotherapy Update
Off-Label Drug Uses
Preceptor Development Series
Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Managed Anticoagulation Clinic
Cost and Quality Implications of Opioid-Based Postsurgical Pain Control in Total Abdominal Hysterectomy: A Study of Cost Outliers and Opioid-Related Adverse Events
Which Comes First, CPOE or eMAR? A Retrospective Analysis of HealthInformation Technology Implementation
Formulary Drug Reviews
Continuing Education Case Study Quiz (0.15 CEU)
Current FDA-Related Drug Information
Pharmacy Automation and Technology
Director’s Forum
Hospital Pharmacy Pulse
Index to Advertisers

Hospital Pharmacy - November 2012