After much anticipation, new dyslipidemia guidelines have been published by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA). The guidelines are a major shift from specific lipid goals to a focus on risk reduction. All pharmacists will need to be familiar with these guidelines in order to provide optimal patient care. Like all ASHP eReports, this is a brief and straightforward presentation of what you need to know about dyslipidemia treatment, the new guidelines, and where you can turn for deeper understanding of the context. Dyslipidemia: Contemporary Evaluation and Management addresses pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and disease classification, general treatment principles, non-pharmacological treatments, pharmacotherapy, monitoring, clinical controversies, and future treatment, references, and web resources.

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Background Evaluation of interprofessional education (IPE) has been limited to students’ self-report and rarely assessed content validity using real-world input. Purpose This study compared students who did and did not complete an IPE curriculum using a mock interview. Aims were to compare them: 1) in terms of competencies around team based care, and 2) as rated by clinicians providing team based care. Method Students participated in a mock field placement interview. Study staff rated transcripts on IPE competencies. Clinicians rated and ranked students in terms of their knowledge/values and preference for hiring. Discussion. IPE students had higher ratings on seven of eleven competences than non-IPE students. Clinical experts rated IPE students higher and ranked them as more preferable. Conclusions This study demonstrates the efficacy and validity of foundational IPE beyond self-report. IPE impacted students’ responses in a real-world scenario in a way that discriminated them from their peers.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of targeted team care training in our institution’s interprofessional practice and education (IPE) program on medical and pharmacy students' expression of knowledge and attitudes about team care as measured in a mock interview. Medical and Pharmacy students were recruited to participate in a 20-minute mock interview for an advanced placement position.

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BACKGROUND: The Appalachian Research Network (AppNET) was established in the Department of Family Medicine at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) as a network of community primary care preceptors focused on Quality Improvement (QI) in rural Appalachia. As the network has moved forward, following our established aims and priorities to improve the quality of healthcare in rural Appalachia, the importance of transitioning to an interdisciplinary network has emerged. METHOD: AppNET QI projects related to medication reconciliation and prescription drug monitoring led to the development of an AAFP Foundation grant focused on prescription drug abuse/misuse (PDA/M). AppNET approached two ETSU pharmacy faculty experienced in PDA/M research to join the team. Soon after, we were invited to collaborate on an NIH NIDA R-24 submission with the ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy (GCOP) and the ETSU College of Public Health: Diversity-promoting Institutional Drug Abuse Research Program (DIDARP). This colllaboration has contributed to a variety of AppNET interdisciplinary partnerships resulting in an expanding scope. RESULTS: AppNET’s interdisciplinary partnerships have resulted in several funded projects. In June 2013, we received funding from the AAFP Foundation to assess family physician knowledge, attitudes, and methods for effective and responsible prescribing of pain medication. The ETSU DIDARP grant was awarded in September 2013 with AppNET’s Network Director serving as CoInvestigator on one of three funded projects as well as an AppNET PEA joining the DIDARP team. AppNET is serving as the laboratory for the project, which requires input from providers and pharmacists, leading to the recruitment of pharmacists to the PBRN. In April 2014, through an interdisciplinary partnership of AppNET and GCOP, ETSU was awarded a contract from the Tennessee Department of Health to help combat the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) epidemic in the State. AppNET’s Research Director and a Pharmacy faculty member are leading a project to study the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of prescribers and dispensers specific to substance use in pregnancy and NAS and evaluate the impact of a NAS primary prevention academic detailing intervention. CONCLUSION: Research in the major health issues facing rural Appalachia, such as PDA/M and NAS, has required an expansion of the research team to include other key professions such as pharmacy and public health. AppNET evolving into an interdisciplinary network has expanded our research scope, our success with obtaining funding, and increased the potential for future funding.

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A report on the creation of a new program to improve family medicine residents' understanding, and quality of care, of anticoagulation patients. Patients requiring anticoagulation therapy pose unique issues requiring a systematic approach to their care, balancing the potential benefit from therapy with possible adverse events. Here, we describe a model that helps to standardize both the care received by patients on anticoagulation therapy as well as the training of family medicine residents caring for those patients. A team-based model of care (family medicine residents, clinical pharmacists, and nurses) is used to achieve the goals of improved care and education. Clinical pharmacists are used in concert with family medicine residents and attendings to assess patients' medication profiles and help direct patient care and resident learning. Both the idea itself and the formal structure are presented in a model for possible adaptation to other programs