From the authors of Pharmacist's Letter, RxSelect: Student Pharmacist is a specially curated collection of clinical and practice resources to support the student in the classroom and during experiential training.
General Pharmacy Practice
- FAQ: Shingles Vaccine
- Chart: Flu Vaccines for 2021-22
- Checklist: Vaccine Administration Strategies
- Chart: Comparison of Pneumococcal Vaccines
- Article: Boost Immunization Rates for Immunocompromised Patients
- Algorithm: Vaccine Adherence: Addressing Myths and Hesitancy
- Article: Look for Unnecessary Meds During Transitions of Care
- Checklist: Responding to Med Errors
- Article: Ramp Up Transdermal Patch Safety
- Article: Put Up Safeguards for New "High-Alert" Meds
- Chart: Tips to Improve Insulin Safety
- Chart: Lab Monitoring for Common Medications
Disease State Management
- Chart: Comparison of Insulins
- Chart: Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes
- Chart: Diabetes Medications and Cardiovascular Impact
- Article: Comparing different insulin products
- Article: Focus on Lifestyle Changes to Help Tackle Prediabetes
- Chart: Non-Statin Lipid-Lowering Agents
- Article: Help Heart Failure Patients Succeed With Med Adherence
- Chart: Target Doses of Meds for Systolic Heart Failure
- Article: Think Twice About Low Dose Aspirin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
- Article: Be Prepared With Answers About Treating VTE
- Chart: Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Beyond the First-Line Agents
- Chart: Choosing and Switching Antidepressants
- Article: Recommend Combining Antidepressants from Different Classes
- Article: Know What Questions to Ask About Suicide
- Chart: Antivirals for Influenza
- Article: Promote Appropriate Use of Antibiotics for Ear Infections
- Chart: Treatment of CAP in adults
- Chart: Antibiotics for MRSA Skin Infections
- Chart: Urinary Tract Infections in Adults
Professional Skills/Law
- Article: Watch for Special Considerations When Treating Transgender Patients
- Article: Help Patients Buy In to Therapy With Motivational Interviewing
- Article: Answer Questions About Biosimilars
- Article: Stay on Top of Proper Generic Substitution
- Article: Reduce HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Stigma
- Article: Look for Expanding Pharmacist Roles With Point-of-Care Testing
- Article: Enhance Your Telecommunication Skills
- Article: Be Ready to Help People Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Article: Streamline Communication With Prescribers
- Article: Stay Alert for Visually Impaired Patients
Journal Club
- March 2023: Does SMART therapy improve outcomes in patients with persistent asthma? Discusses systematic review and meta-analysis, guidelines for reporting and evaluating meta-analyses, composite end points, generalizability, heterogeneity, and random versus fixed effects analysis.
- February 2023: Do omega-3 fatty acids with EPA and DHA reducer cardiovascular events in high-risk patients? Discusses randomized controlled trials, inclusion and exclusion criteria, considerations with the choice of a placebo, composite outcomes, event-driven study, generalizability of results, study power, type II error.
- January 2023: How effective is baloxavir versus placebo or oseltamivir to improve symptoms due to influenza? Discusses inclusion and exclusion criteria, generalizability of trial results, subgroup analysis, multiple comparisons, and type I and II error.
- December 2022: What should you recommend to treat head lice? Discusses criteria for developing or evaluating practice guidance, grading strength of evidence, conflicts of interest, feasibility of interventions in day-to-day practice, and prospective validation.
- November 2022: What is the risk of gallbladder or biliary disease with GLP-1 receptor agonists? Discusses systematic review and meta-analysis, guidelines for reporting and evaluating meta-analyses, validity, strength of evidence, and study heterogeneity..
- October 2022: When is the onset of acute kidney injury most likely with “triple whammy” drugs? Discusses database studies, association versus causation, study power, type II error, confounders, and reporting bias.
- September 2022: Are proton pump inhibitors safe and effective for patients with coronary artery disease? Discusses systematic review and meta-analysis, guidelines for reporting and evaluating meta-analyses, study quality and heterogeneity, strength of evidence, and publication bias.
- August 2022: What is the impact of using nonrecommended direct oral anticoagulant doses in patients with atrial fibrillation? Discusses cohort study design, observational studies, association versus causation, misclassification bias, confounders, and STROBE guidelines.
- July 2022: How should you manage medications in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)? Discusses criteria for developing or evaluating practice guidelines, grading strength of evidence, conflicts of interest, guideline panel representation, feasibility of interventions in day-to-day practice, and prospective guideline validation.
- June 2022: Is regular phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor use associated with serious ocular side effects? Discusses nested case-control study design, controls, matching, administrative databases, misclassification bias, exposure misclassification, sensitivity analysis, and STROBE guidelines.Is a shorter course of antibiotics effective for community-acquired pneumonia in children?
- May 2022: How should you manage medications in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction? Discusses criteria for developing or evaluating practice guidelines, grading strength of evidence, conflicts of interest, guideline panel representation, feasibility of interventions in day-to-day practice, and prospective guideline validation.
- April 2022: Does acetaminophen increase blood pressure in patients with hypertension? Discusses crossover studies, study design, generalization of study results, analysis of paired data, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and per-protocol analysis.
- March 2022: Is a shorter course of antibiotics effective for community-acquired pneumonia in children? Discusses randomized studies, inclusion and exclusion criteria, generalization of study results, DOOR and RADAR, intention-to-treat analysis, and study validity.
- February 2022: How should you manage antiplatelet meds after a coronary stent? Discusses criteria for developing or evaluating practice guidelines, grading strength of evidence, conflicts of interest, guideline panel representation, feasibility of interventions in day-to-day practice, and prospective guideline validation.
- January 2022: How should you manage benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)? Discusses criteria for developing or evaluating practice guidelines, grading strength of evidence, conflicts of interest, guideline panel representation, feasibility of interventions in day-to-day practice, and prospective guideline validation.
- December 2021: Does methylphenidate decrease apathy in patients with Alzheimer disease? Discusses randomized studies, inclusion and exclusion criteria, generalization of study results, statistical versus clinical significance, “spin” in result reporting.
- November 2021: Is acetaminophen use safe during pregnancy? Discusses expert consensus statements, grading the strength of evidence, conflicts of interest, panel representation, and applicability of recommendations in day-to-day practice.
Training Courses
- Bloodborne Pathogens 2023
- Combating Methamphetamine Abuse 2023
- Complex Non-sterile Compounding: Oral Dosage Forms (per official 2014 USP 795)
- Cultural Competence and Unconscious Bias
- Fraud, Waste and Abuse/CMS Training 2023
- HIPAA Privacy 2023
- HIPAA Security 2023
- Medication Reconciliation and Transitions of Care
- Motivational Interviewing to Enhance Care
- Non-sterile Compounding Basics
- Non-sterile Compounding: Topical and Oral Liquid Preparations (per 2014 USP 795)
- Preventing Medication-Related Errors (Florida Board of Pharmacy approved)
- Preventing Medication-Related Errors
- Sterile Compounding: Aseptic Technique (per official 2008 USP 797)
- Sterile Compounding: USP Chapter 797 (official 2008 version)
- Successful MTM Programs in Community Pharmacy
- Tuberculosis Training for Healthcare Workers