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Kroger Patient Care Center
Professors Gerald Cable, Kristin Casper, and Tara Green along with William Sheridan from Kroger have been presented with the Crystal Apple Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in recognition of their contributions to learning excellence in experiential education. Kristin Casper and Tara Green were instrumental in forming a partnership between the Kroger Company and the college to provide a new rotation site for forth-year Pharm.D. students known as the Kroger Patient Care Center (KPCC). Professor Cable is the director of experiential education in the College of Pharmacy and coordinates placement of four-year pharmacy students in rotations at the KPCC.
The Kroger Company brings a continued commitment to the College of Pharmacy and an ability to realistically approach pharmacy practice in a retail pharmacy environment, as well as think about how practice can change in the future to secure the pharmacist's role as a vital member of the healthcare team.
The partnership has opened the door for multiple opportunities to work on pilot projects and new act ivies that can advance the profession of pharmacy and highlight the efforts of each partner.
Kroger Patient Care Center
The Kroger Patient Care Center formed out of a partnership between the Kroger Company and the Colleges of Pharmacy at the Ohio State University, the University of Toledo, and Wayne State University. The practice site is an educational center that serves as an extension of the dispensing pharmacy and serves a suburban community by providing an expanded level of pharmaceutical care. The Kroger Patient Care Center promotes the expanded role of the pharmacist in the community pharmacy setting, and pledges to continually strive to be a model practice site that offers advance patient care services with connectivity to all aspects of pharmacy practice. Students in the Advanced Community Rotation are exposed to a blend of the traditional dispensing responsibilities of a community pharmacist with advanced patient care opportunities related to wellness and disease state management.
Profile of the Academic-Practice Partnership: The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy & Kroger Patient Care Center
APPE Title: Advanced Community Pharmacy Rotation; Practice
Site Type: Community Pharmacy Grocery Chain
Robert W. Brueggemeier, Ph.D., Dean
Professional Experience Program: Gerald L. Cable, R.Ph.
Preceptors: Tara R. Green, Pharm.D.; Kristin A. Casper, Pharm.D.
Site Administrator: William F. Sheridan II, B.S.Pharm, Pharmacy Merchandiser
The Crystal Apple Award and AACP
Eight colleges and schools of pharmacy and their practice partners received the inaugural AACP Crystal APPLE (Academic-Practice Partnerships for Learning Excellence) Award at the 2007 AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars.
The program recognizes the contributions of the faculty/administrators at colleges and schools of pharmacy and the pharmacist practitioner educators and administrators who are their practice partners in successfully conducting and supporting quality experiential education in exemplary patient care clinical teaching environments. Merck & Company, Inc. sponsors the program with U.S. Pharmacist as the publicity partner.
In the coming year each partnership will be featured in US Pharmacist as well as in the Advanced Practice Experience Site Profiling System (APESPS). APESPS is a toolkit designed for use by pharmacy schools professional program experiential directors to identify, document and profile models of exemplary experiential education practice sites exhibiting the Academic Practice Partnership Initiative (APPI)-developed quality criteria. The system is located in the APPI category of the Resource section on the AACP Web site, www.aacp.org.
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