Core Area
Practice
Strategic Area
Strategic partnerships that sustain the ongoing evolution of pharmacy in step with that in health and education systems
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development (CPPD) to continue to develop new programs in collaboration with the Ministry (2026); including projects through the new Gateway Clinic for team-based care as well as education for patients.
- Future projects planned with external research partners to expand resources for healthcare medication management for phamacists and physicians in community team-based care (ongoing).
Achieved Goals
- Launched two courses (Cultivating Relationships and Creating Safer Spaces in Pharmacy for First Nations Clients and A Case-Based Approach for Pharmacy Teams on Providing CARE for First Nations Clients) under a project focused on “Building Cultural Safety and Humility for First Nations Clients into Pharmacy Practice”, developed to help pharmacy team members learn how to address systemic anti-Indigenous racism and barriers to healthcare access in pharmacy care settings, as part of a collective effort to reduce experiences of culturally unsafe care for First Nations clients across the British Columbia healthcare system. Courses were developed in collaboration with the First Nations Health Authority and a First Nations Advisory Group. Evelyn Alec, a First Nations artist from the Penticton Indian Band, created the designs used in the courses (Sep 2023).
- Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development (CPPD) and Office of Educational Technology and Learning Design (OETLD) developed and implemented the College of Pharmacist of BC’s Regulatory module for Pharmacist prescribing for minor ailments and contraception (July 2023).
- CPPD unit developed new programs, including a Minor Ailments and Contraception Services (MACS) program funded by the BC Ministry of Health from April 2023–April 2025; expanded injection training programs to be offered from 2026/2027. CPPD also worked with other significant internal and external partners (ongoing); module valuation (2025).
- Conducted Directed Studies project with external research partners to expand resources for healthcare medication management for pharmacists and physicians in community team-based care (2024).
- CPPD collaborated with the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) on future program for BC Pharmacists on substance use (2025).
- Created Task Force with the health authorities to discuss graduate diploma in primary care (fall 2024); submitted a concept paper on the program proposal to the university and received feedback (2025).
- Created an Indigenous Cultural Safety, Humility and Anti-racism webpage through CPPD, which included continuing education programs and events listings for launch Jan 2026.