Practical Skills Refresher Course plus Labs*
GPhA’s Practical Skills Refresher Course is a concentrated, four-hour refresher on terminology, measurements, and procedures you’ll need for the practical exam — and in the day-to-day practice of pharmacy in your community.
If you’re a student pharmacist or a transfer to Georgia, you want this course for a review of critical parts of the pharmacy school curriculum. Practicing pharmacists will also find the Practical Skills Refresher a useful way to strengthen their grasp of day-to-day measurements, procedures, and terms, for their own benefit as well as in the training of pharmacy technicians.
UAN: 0142-0000-20-002-L04-P
CPE hours: 4.0
Activity type: Knowledge
Target audience: Pharmacists
Learning Objectives for Pharmacists
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Develop a checklist for dispensing new and refill medications
- Identify medical conditions based on a prescription profile
- Design a pharmacotherapy plan
- Outline basic pharmaceutical calculations
GPhA members: $159
Non-members: $289
New for 2020: Practical Skills for the Lab!
Feel like you need compounding practice? Now you can sign up for lab time with an instructor to watch you and provide feedback, in a simulated testing environment.
GPhA’s Practical Skills for the Lab is a concentrated, two-hour review and hands-on experience in an actual lab, compounding sample prescriptions and IV orders.
Additional fee: $89
UAN: 0142-0000-20-001-L04-P
CPE hours: 2.0
Activity type: Application
Target audience: Pharmacists
Learning Objectives for Pharmacists
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Compound a suspension or solution from tablets, make a formula, and label accordingly
- Calculate weights and make ointment or cream.
- Dilute injections and calculate dosage for IV orders and label accordingly
Four convenient locations
To make the practical even more practical, we offer GPhA’s Practical Skills Refresher Course in four convenient locations and on four separate dates throughout the year. You can attend any class no matter what school you went to!
Atlanta area (on the campus of Mercer University)
February 29, 2020
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Athens area (on the campus of UGA)
May 30, 2020
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Suwanee area (on the PCOM campus)
July 25, 2020
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Schedule
8:30 – 9:00 am: Check-in with instructor
9:00 am – 1:00 pm: Practical Skills Refresher with Ashish Advani
1:15 – 2:00 pm: Lunch (must be registered for Practical Skills for the Lab)
2:00 – 4:00 pm: Practical Skills for the Lab with Bryce Carter (optional / additional registration)
Your instructors
Ashish Advani, PharmD
Ashish Advani received his PharmD from the University of Georgia in 2007, after completing his undergraduate coursework at the University of Georgia and Oxford University in England.
After graduating, he completed a drug information residency at Mercer University and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, centered around skills of literature searching, literature evaluation, and medical communication, all in support of the practice of evidence-based medicine.
In under a decade, Dr. Advani worked his way up as a professor and director of the Drug Information Center at Mercer University College of Pharmacy. He published 11 articles in peer reviewed journals, brought in $1 million in research/grant funding (100 percent as principal investigator), served as guest editor of the Journal of Pharmacy Practice, served as a drug information specialist at Atlanta Medical Center, held several committee and board appointments, including the Georgia State Drug Utilization Review Board and Georgia Pharmacy Association Board, but most notably, in partnership with the university, Dr. Advani created a technology, InpharmD, that aims to revolutionize the practice of evidence-based medicine.
Today, Dr. Advani is president and CEO of InpharmD, recently named one of Georgia’s 100 fastest growing businesses.
Bryce Carter, PharmD
Bryce hails from Valdosta, Georgia, and has been a pharmacist at Dunwoody Pharmacy for the past 5 years. He received his bachelor of science in chemistry from Valdosta State University in 2010 and his PharmD from Mercer University in 2014.
Bryce has worked in independent pharmacy since the early 2000s, and his favorite part of pharmacy is compounding medications. He received the USP 797 Aseptic Technique Certificate through PCCA, as well as APhA’s Patient Centered Diabetic Certification.
Bryce has been an active member of GPhA since his first year of pharmacy school, is the current Region 5 president, a member of the CPE committee, and a past graduate of Leadership GPhA. He lives in Peachtree Corners with his wife, Ashlyn, who is also a pharmacist. When not busy in the pharmacy, Bryce can be found hunting, fishing, and cheering on his Georgia Bulldogs!
Fine print
Content from this course developed by GPhA and Dr. Jake Galdo based on key objectives derived from standard pharmacy school curricula. No content from this course is derived from the Georgia Pharmacist Practical Exam.
The Georgia Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
To earn CPE credit for live study, learners are required to attend the live training, participate in class discussion, respond to in-class quiz questions, and complete an online survey within one week of the class.
