Chase Reece, BSHP '24

The majority of this week’s work centered around collaborative drug therapy management. In summary, the articles that I reviewed this week continued to emphasize the importance of educating physicians about the potential benefits of collaborative relationships with pharmacists. The majority of physicians report having positive views of clinical pharmacists and CDTM in general; however, few are actively engaged in these collaborative agreements and often cite their lack of need for these services or their beliefs about the abilities of clinical pharmacists as reasons for not adopting CDTM. This highlights the importance of ensuring pharmacists receive appropriate credentialing and increasing awareness of the advanced education required to established advanced pharmacy practice. Additionally, emphasizing the advantages of CDTM while diminishing the assumed disadvantages is needed. For example, a primary goal of CDTM is to improve access to care, quality of care, and reduce physician workload, although many physicians assume it would increase their workload. Educating physicians about the specific roles of pharmacists and the responsibilities they take on could help ease their concerns. Overall, CDTM is supposed to improve team-based care which is why it emphasizes a collaborative relationship. These specific findings about physician perceptions and the methods used in the studies will be utilized to help develop surveys and interview questions with physicians and pharmacists in Georgia. Going forward, the literature search will be expanded to other countries with similar healthcare systems and CDTM agreements to understand any similarities and differences with CDTM in the United States. The main health promotion competencies met this week include:

• 1.1.3: Identify existing and available resources, policies, programs, practices, and interventions.
• 1.1.5: Recruit and or engage partners and stakeholders
• 1.2.3: Conduct a literature review
• 1.2.4: Procure secondary data
• 1.2.5: Determine validity and reliability of secondary data
• 1.2.6: Identify data gaps