Continuing Education (CE)

[PharmDBro2017]

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Couple questions:
1) What is your go-to website or method for knocking out your CE? Seems like the majority of people just find some crap to quickly complete, check it off the list, and be done with it. Do any of you try to learn new info from them? Stay up to date on pharmacotherapy, etc?

2) Do any of you stay enrolled in organizations (APhA) and get CE through them?

Any other suggestions for CE? I'm obviously a new pharmacist, so I may wait until November of 2019 and be a lazy POS.... but I'd like to get a head start and possibly learn something from them. I've seen some cool Veterinary Pharmacist CE stuff for like $50/22 hours being offered, but I don't want to waste $. Idk where I'm going with this. Discuss.

 

[Rouelle]

Well at the risk of sounding nerdy, yeah I attempt to pick out CE topics that may help (or at least interest) me. I try to do one day of a live meeting or conference every year to satisfy the live requirement in my state. For example last month I went to an INR conference (google them) over a topic I found interesting. Beyond that I finish out the year with online stuff. One of my employers offers ACPE accredited CE (and some of the modules are required for my job function...so kills 2 birds with one stone). Otherwise, I’ve used Pharmacist Letter for easy hours from time to time.

 

[Rouelle]

I might also state that I’m a member of the local/state chapter of th ASHP and they offer enough CE annually to satisfy my state requirements. My pharmacy school alma mater does as well. Neither one is free of charge, of course. I have only done these once (the school one).

 

[RxPreceptor]

Powerpak CEs - free, good variety of topics, mostly non live CEs
RxSchool - something like a 75-99$ annual fee, has a good variety of CEs to choose from, but the main selling point is the ease of access to numerous live CEs with flexible hours (my gotto for live CEs due to odd overnight schedule). They do offer discounts during certain times of the year (New Years) and/or with referrals I believe.

PL/pharmacists' letter - pretty good/diverse range of topics for non live CEs; live CEs are painfully hard to schedule (different time zone/CA based). This is my go to source for getting specific CE requirements (medication errors, vaccines, state law required topics, etc.)

I would choose whatever topics interest you/things you don't regularly see during work due to boredom.

Not enrolled with APhA. I was a bit late on tracking CEs my last renewal interval, started maybe 8 months or so before the cut off date, easily got 50+ CEs (overdid) by just hammering out 2-6 hours of live CEs every 2 weeks with plenty of time to spare

 

[OmiPharmD]

I subscribe to Pharmacist's Letter. I had a free subscription through school and then my employer picked up the tab for years.

Now they do not pay for it but I like it enough to keep it. That's only 1 hour of CE/month but it gets a nice chunk out of the way.

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[PharmDBro2017]

I subscribe to Pharmacist's Letter. I had a free subscription through school and then my employer picked up the tab for years.

Now they do not pay for it but I like it enough to keep it. That's only 1 hour of CE/month but it gets a nice chunk out of the way.

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