Faculty & Staff
Self Governance » Continuing Education Committee
Minutes
September 2004
Committee Members present were Drs. Sachin Shah, Ann Canales, Bonnie Dugie, Judy Newsom Emily Lefler, Krystal Edwards, Venita Bowie, Sherry Luedtke, Leland Wehde and Joel Epps.
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Sachin Shah, Chair.
Mr. Epps presented a draft of the proposed continuing education survey that includes the changes proposed by committee members. Mr. Epps proposed that we present the survey via an on-line format which would be more user friendly and would probably get more respondents than a paper format.
Leland Wehde proposed that we include a category for technicians, registered pharmacist (R.Ph.) and on educational background included a space for bachelors' degree and allow for a technician with a bachelor's degree, this is in addition to the categories already listed on the survey.
Other proposed changes from the committee were to include categories for institution and academic and delete independent category. On the category of how you prefer to be notified of CE delete journal advertisement and allow space to rank the order of preference.
Geographical area. It was decided to include a map of Texas marking the geographical areas and then the people can fill in the number of the area for the questions of where you live, where you attend CE, were you would consider attending CE and how far you would travel for CE. It was also suggested to include a ranking system in conjunction with the question of how far you would travel to attend live CE program.
It was also suggested to include a question to inquire of CE requirements for licensure and the percentage of live CE program the pharmacist will attend to meet those requirements.
The committee was reminded that we cannot loose sight of the intent of the information we hope to derive from the survey.
WTPA has offered to provide some monetary support for the survey. We are still waiting to hear from the TPA organization.
On the list of organizations it was suggested that we ask the member to list the organization they belong to because we do not want to offend anyone by leaving an organization out of the list on the survey. It was further suggested that we inquire as to the primary pharmacy organization where by the pharmacist receives their CE education. Also a place to check whether they are a member of the national, state and local organization.
On the list of CE topics the committee decided that we need to be more specific, change alcoholic withdraw to substance abuse, delete the huge general topics and develop a list of specific topics. This creating of this list was tabled for now and we will work on it individually and submit proposed topics via e-mail to Mr. Epps. This will also put us in compliance with ACPE wherein they stated that our CE topics were too broad.
The committee needs a final draft of this survey as soon as possible to present to our participating member organization for their input and approval. Dr. Dugie stated that the TSHP board meeting was in two weeks and would like to present the survey at that time. Dr. Shah will also be attending that board meeting.
The alumni dinner in conjunction with the TSHP meeting is not going to have a CE program, it will be strictly social dinner.
The next CE committee meeting is on October 21 1:00 to 2: The meeting was adjourned.