How do you approach obtaining continuing education hours for relicensure? Are the hours you fulfill based on convenience, or do you participate in learning activities that are necessary for professional development or improve your skills as an educator? This course is designed to introduce preceptors to a new approach in continuing education and professional development. Preceptors will learn the importance and process of effective self-assessment and develop a personal learning plan.

Upon successful completion of this course, preceptors should be able to:
1. Identify common precepting challenges and potential learning needs.
2. Discuss the need to improve how pharmacists approach their continuing education and lifelong learning.
3. List and describe the components of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
4. Describe self-assessment tools and complete a self-assessment.
5. Design a CPD plan for a unique precepting challenge based on self-assessment results.

Jennifer Chang
Director of Preceptor Development
University of Washington

Anita Cleven
Assistant Dean for Experiential Education
Pacific University

Tracy Pettinger
Assistant Dean and Director for Experiential Education
Idaho State Univeristy

Jennifer Chang, Anita Cleven, and Tracy Pettinger do not report any actual or potential conflicts of interest in relation to this continuing pharmacy education activity.

Course fee includes course, course materials, and CPE credit submission to CPE Monitor.
Release Date: February 10, 2021
Planned Expiration Date: February 10, 2024  

This course has been reviewed by the Texas Consortium on Experiential Programs and has been designated as preceptor education and training for Texas preceptors.