APhA Pharmacy Based Travel Health Services

APhA Travel Health Certificate Program 

Friday, June 21, 2019 | 8:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Westin La Paloma Resort | Tucson, AZ

Activity Preview:

Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services is an innovative and interactive advanced competency training (ACT) program that explores the pharmacist’s role in providing travel health services to patients. This application-based activity is the first step for pharmacists interested in learning the essential skills necessary to successfully provide travel health services.

• Activity Type: Application-based 

• Target Audience: Pharmacists who have completed the APhA Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program and received a Certificate of Achievement or have previously completed an immunization training program and are authorized to provide immunizations in the state in which they practice.

• Learning Level: Level 3 - Substantial knowledge of and experience in the subject area of immunization is required, no prior knowledge in travel health is required.

Goals and Learning Objectives:

• Provide pharmacists with comprehensive knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to establish and deliver a successful travel health service

• Teach pharmacists to identify at-risk patient populations in need of preventative and travel care

• Enhance pharmacists' ability to effectively counsel patients on travel health

• Motivate increased numbers of pharmacists to establish travel health services

Faculty: 

Conchetta Lesser, PharmD, BCACP

Kelly Fine, RPH, FAzPA

Program Fess: 

Refund Policy: 

Refund and/or cancellation requests must be made in writing to the Arizona Pharmacy Association office. A cancellation request must be made at least ten (10) business days prior to the scheduled program and will be charged a fee of $125 for AzPA Members and $175 for non-members. No refunds will be issued for cancellation requests made less than ten (10) business days prior to the scheduled program. You must submit a written request to cancel by email, fax, or standard mail and confirm that AzPA has received the request. AzPA reserves the right to cancel any activity due to insufficient pre-registration or as determined by the Executive Director or Operations Director. In this case, all individuals pre-registered are notified and issued a full refund. Registration fees cannot be re-allocated due to the multiple steps involved with processing CE credits.

Accreditation Information:

The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services program is approved for a total of 10.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit (1.0 CEUs). The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for this activity are listed below.

• Successful completion of the self-study component involves passing the self-study assessment with a grade of 70% or higher and will result in 6 hours (0.6 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit. ACPE UAN 0202-9999-19-145-H01-P

• Successful completion of the live seminar component involves attending the full live seminar, passing the final assessment with a grade of 70% or higher, and completing the online evaluation. Successful completion of this component will result in for 4 hours (0.4 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit. ACPE UAN 0202-9999-19-146-L01-P

To obtain 10 contact hours of CPE credit (1.0 CEUs) for APhA's Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services advanced competency program, the learner must successfully complete all components listed above, and CLAIM credit for each component. Learners will need to have a valid APhA (pharmacist.com) username and password, as well as a CPE Monitor account to claim credit. After credit has been claimed, please visit CPE monitor for your transcript. The Certificate of Completion will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the learner’s My Training page on www.pharmacist.com.

APhA's continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully complete the continuing pharmacy education assessment. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit the assessment a third time. The current policy of the APhA Education Department is not to release the correct answers to any of our CPE tests. This policy is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.

Release Date: March 20, 2019

Expiration Date: December 31, 2019 - PLEASE NOTE: NO Home Study credit granted after this date; Live Credit can only be granted within 60 days from the day of the seminar attended.

Development: Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services was developed by the American Pharmacists Association and supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. APhA would also like to acknowledge Walgreens for its financial contribution to the development of this advanced competency training. Copyright © 2016 by the American Pharmacists Association.

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