Class of 2015 Abstract / Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of reports of pharmacy student research programs to describe publication and presentations resulting from the research. Methods: To be eligible for the systematic review, studies must have described student research programs in which students’ were required to collect, analyze, report or present findings and be reported in English. Candidate studies were screened and data extracted using standardized forms by two investigators independently with the final list identified by consensus. The primary outcome variables were extramural posters/presentations and publications. Data were summarized in tables. Results: A total of 6112 studies were screened and 14 studies were identified that described student research meeting inclusion criteria; two reports were from outside the United States. Two-thirds were reports of required projects and a third were elective projects. Required research projects were conducted on a wide variety of topics including clinical, practice, laboratory, public health, education and other topics. Elective research was focused on clinical practice, and laboratory topics. Components of the research process were not uniformly described. The terminal project requirement was usually a written report (57%) or a poster (29%). One program required a presentation. More than half (64%) of the student research programs reported that students presented extramural posters and half (57%) reported that publications resulted from student research. Conclusions: About half of the student research programs described in the literature indicated that student research resulted in extramural posters or presentations.

Class of 2013 Abstract / Specific Aims: To evaluate the level of didactic and experiential pediatric education currently provided in ACPE-accredited Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD) programs throughout the United States by comparing geographic location and type of institution. Methods: Questionnaires were administered electronically to pediatric clinicians through the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Pediatric Practice and Research Network (PRN) listserve and consisted of demographic questions as well as questions regarding the number of hours of didactic pediatric education within courses, the number of hours of experiential education, and the specific pediatric experiences available to students. Main Results: Questionnaires were completed by 36 Colleges of Pharmacy (29%) and included 26 dedicated pediatric faculty, 9 adjunct pediatric faculty, and 1 non-pediatric faculty who were the primary instructors for pediatric education. The average reported number of pediatric didactic hours was 16.3±19.2 hours. Pediatric didactic education was similar between private and state funded institutions (p=0.24) as well as geographic location (p=0.74). The percentages of students taking the different types of experiential rotations were similar between state funded and private institutions (p=0.64). There was a significant difference between regions for the percentage of students participating in pediatric APPE rotations (p<0.001). Specifically, the Northeast and Midwest regions showed a higher percentage than the South Atlantic, South Central, and West regions (p<0.001). Programs commonly reported the following pediatric rotations: general pediatrics (78%), pediatric critical care (69%), neonatal critical care (67%), and pediatric ambulatory care (28%). Conclusion: Pediatric didactic and experiential education appears to be consistent between state and privately-funded institutions as well as between geographic regions with the exception of a higher percentage of students in the Northeast and Midwest participating in pediatric APPE.

This retrospective study was conducted to examine the impact of third-year pharmacy students’ provision of medication therapy management (MTM) on medication and health-related outcomes of patients in community pharmacies. The study objectives were as follows: 1) describe patients’ socio-demographic and clinical characteristics; 2) describe the number and types of medication and health-related problems (MHRPs) identified by students, as well as students’ MTM interventions and recommendations; 3) describe medical provider/patient MTM recommendation acceptance rates; and 4) determine which factors (i.e., baseline MHRPs, medical conditions, prescription medications, over-the-counter (OTC) medications and herbal supplements, number of medical prescribers, MTM interventions, and MTM recommendations) were related to the number of MHRPs resolved. The study used data (MTM cases) from a required MTM course, taught at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. The study included MTM cases provided by third-year pharmacy students enrolled in the Fall 2011 semester. MTM cases that were complete, unduplicated, and had patients aged ≥ 18 years were included the study. Descriptive statistics were used to address the first three study objectives. Multivariate linear regression was used to determine which factors were related to the number of MHRPs resolved. Out of the total number of MTM cases, 274 met the study inclusion criteria and served as the study’s final sample. The patients’ average age was 63.8 (±14.5), and the majority were female (60.4%) and Caucasian (53.2%). Almost one-third of the patients (30.7%) drank alcohol. The mean number of medical conditions and prescription medications was 6.0 (±2.7) and 9.0 (±4.0), respectively. Pharmacy students identified 1,370 MHRPs [935 medication-related problems (MRPs) and 435 health-related problems (HRPs)] and recommended 1,004 medication and health-related recommendations (MHRRs) [542 medication-related recommendations and 462 health- related recommendations]. Medical providers and/or patients accepted recommendations regarding drug discontinuation (34.8%) and OTC and herbal supplements (28.9%) at higher rates than other recommendations. Regarding the regression, the overall model was statistically significant, F=76.88, df=7, 240, p<0.001, and baseline MHRPs (β=0.127, t=2.09, p=0.04) and MTM recommendations (β =0.715, t=11.37, p<0.0001) were significantly related to MHRPs resolved. In conclusion, pharmacy students had a positive impact on patients’ medication and health-related outcomes through identifying MHRPs and providing MTM recommendations. The significant positive relationship between the number of MTM recommendations and MHRPs resolved should encourage pharmacists and pharmacy students to be more eager to provide MTM recommendations, given the evidence that they will lead to improving patients’ medication and health-related outcomes. / text