Council of Deans Report, July 2014

2014-2015 Elected COD Officer

The Council of Deans congratulates the following dean colleague for being elected as Chair-Elect of the Council of Deans, beginning at the end of the 2014 Annual Meeting: Chair-Elect: Bob Blouin (The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

2013-2014 COD Nominating Committee

Chair: Joe DiPiro. (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Members: Michelle Easton (University of Charleston), Chris Ireland (University of Utah), Michael Manolakis (Wingate University), Cindy Stowe (University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences)

Slate of COD Administrative Board Nominees for Next Election

Chair-elect: Doug Bricker (Duquesne University), Natalie Eddington (University of Maryland)

Secretary: Gary DeLander (Oregon State University), Wendy Duncan (Drake University)

At-Large Representative: Russ Melchert (University of Missouri at Kansas City), Sharon Youmans (University of California at San Francisco)

2013-2014 COD Resolutions Committee

Chair: Susan Meyer (University of Pittsburgh)

Members: Ralph Altiere (University of Colorado), Phil Johnston (Belmont University), Mary Lee (Midwestern University), Craig Svensson (Purdue University

There have been no resolutions brought to the COD this year.

COD Task Forces

Taskforce on collaborations with state pharmacy organizations

Membership: Bernard Sorofman, chair (Iowa); Mike Dietrich (Midwestern Glendale); Dennis F. Thompson (Southwest Oklahoma); Daniel Robinson (Western); Don Letendre (Iowa); Stephen Durst (Ferris State); Kevin Sneed (South Florida); Marianne McCollum (Regis); Anne Lin (Notre Dame Maryland); Vincent Lau (AACP Staff Support).

U.S. healthcare, and therefore pharmacy, is in a state of major transformation. Change produces significant anxiety in most people, and the rate of change currently facing U.S. healthcare is greater than at any point since Medicare and Medicaid legislation was passed in 1965. A major component of the politics associated with pharmacy and healthcare is at the state level. Therefore, it is critical that colleges/schools of pharmacy be actively engaged with their respective state pharmacy organizations in identifying challenges for pharmacy and potential solutions to create practice and business models that will allow pharmacy to transform itself within a changing U.S. healthcare industry. These issues are critical for pharmacy education because the academy has an obligation to prepare pharmacists who can be patient care providers and health systems medication experts in this transformed marketplace. The 2012-13 AACP Professional Affairs Committee addressed best practices in their report, “Tables of Influence: Is Pharmacy Hungry Enough?” In order to provide colleges/schools of pharmacy with resources to address these challenges, this taskforce is charged with the following.

Charges:

• 1) Go beyond the best practices outlined in the report of the 2012-13 AACP Professional Affairs Committee and make specific recommendations for colleges/schools of pharmacy with regard to engagement with state pharmacy organizations (including a toolkit if applicable).

• 2) Recommend specific measures by which colleges/schools of pharmacy can collaborate with state pharmacy organizations to increase the capacity for highly innovative practice sites for both introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences.

• 3) Recommend steps by which pharmacy colleges/schools can become more actively involve student pharmacists and faculty with state pharmacy organizations in developing and implementing advocacy plans at the state level (while keeping in mind the limitations placed on those pharmacy colleges/schools that are public institutions).

• 4) Recommend educational programming that would focus on advancing collaborations between colleges/schools of pharmacy and state pharmacy organizations.

References:

• 1) MacLean LG and the AACP Standing Committee in Professional Affairs. 2013 Professional Affairs Committee Report: Tables of Influence: Is Pharmacy Hungry Enough. AACP July 2013

• 2) State of Iowa Best Practices. Successful Practice Descriptions College/School Collaborations with the State Pharmacy Association(s) and State Board of Pharmacy 2013.

• 3) Other state best practice documents are available on the AACP website.

The final taskforce report is submitted as an attachment.

Taskforce on professional identity formation

Membership: Philip D. Hall, chair (South Carolina); Hershey S. Bell (LECOM); Mary Euler (West Virginia); Paul W. Jungnickel (Auburn); Michael Manolakis (Wingate); Nanci L. Murphy (Washington); Michael Malloy (MCP–Worcester); George MacKinnon (Roosevelt); Jim Scott (Western); Beth Welch (Western New England) .

Professional identity formation is a complex progression involving multiple processes including the “overlapping domains of professionalism, psychosocial identity development, and formation.”¹ Professional identity formation is critical to the professional development of trainees in any profession. This is particularly important in a profession like pharmacy that is in a state of rapid transformation from a “product focused” profession to a “patient care giving” profession. The changing nature of all health professions and the incorporation of interprofessional education into the curricula of all health professions makes this even more important. For example, how is the professional identify formation for a student pharmacist different than that for a medical student or any other student health professional? The charges given to this taskforce include:

Reference:

• 1) Holden M, et al. Professional identity formation in medical education: the convergence of multiple domains. HRC Forum 2012;24:245-55.

Charges

• 1) Make recommendations for best practices in developing professional identity formation among student pharmacists.

• 2) Create a tool kit for methods to develop professional identity among student pharmacists within the context of an interprofessional education model.

• 3) Make recommendations for AACP educational programming to address how faculty can best develop professional identity among student pharmacists.

The final taskforce report is submitted as an attachment.

Taskforce on assisting schools of pharmacy at emerging research institutions

Members: Kimberly A. Galt, chair (Creighton); Rebecca S. Finley (Thomas Jefferson); Paul Goldsmith (Touro - CA); Lisa Lawson (University of the Sciences); Gloria E. Meredith (Rosalind Franklin); H. Anne Pereira (Oklahoma); Sunil Prabhu (Western); Rick Slaughter (Wayne State); Quentin Smith (Texas Tech); Charles Taylor (Northeast Ohio); Vincent Lau (AACP Staff Support).

Research and scholarship are critical to the core mission of schools of pharmacy and this has been recognized by ACPE and other entities. How research and scholarship manifests itself within schools of pharmacy varies greatly. Schools of pharmacy across the United States are as diverse as higher education itself. Some schools of pharmacy are research intensive, some are primarily education and professional service in nature, and a third group are located at what has been categorized as emerging research universities. Emerging research universities have made a commitment to become more competitive for peer reviewed research grants, including grants from NIH, NSF, AHRQ, research foundations, and other funding entities. Particularly within today’s economic restraints, including federal budget cuts, this is a formidable challenge, as even research intensive universities are finding it more challenging to maintain past levels of research grant productivity.

AACP has an obligation to assist schools of pharmacy in achieving all major aspects of their mission. Therefore, it is critical that AACP assist schools of pharmacy in achieving the research portion of their mission as well as their education and professional service aspects. Emerging research universities are particularly well situated to be a target for AACP to assist. Based upon these thoughts, this taskforce is charged with the following:

Charges:

• 1) Identify methods in which AACP can assist emerging research universities in achieving their mission.

• 2) Recommend methods by which faculty at emerging research universities can collaborate with faculty at research intensive universities in ways that are beneficial to faculty at both institutions and to advancing the missions at both types of institutions.

• 3) Recommend networks or consortia among schools of pharmacy that would assist in facilitating the research agenda of schools of pharmacy.

• 4) Recommend methods by which students could benefit from research collaborations among schools of pharmacy.

• 5) Recommend AACP educational programming that would assist schools of pharmacy at emerging research universities (as well as all schools of pharmacy) in achieving their research and scholarship components of their mission.

The final taskforce report is submitted as an attachment.

Programming for COD at the Annual Meeting

Council of Deans Business Meeting

Monday, July 28: 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Chair: M. Lynn Crismon, The University of Texas at Austin

All Members of the Council of Deans are invited to receive reports on current and future council priorities.

Council of Deans Special Session:

Monday, July 28: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Selecting Academic Pharmacy Leaders: How to Get it Right, and What to Do When You Get it Wrong

Moderator: M. Lynn Crismon, The University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: William M. Behrendt, Vice President for Human Resources The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center;

Speaker: John F. McCracken, Clinical Professor of Healthcare Management, The University of Texas at Dallas

The objectives of the session are to recognize the motivational profile of a successful academic leader; to identify the personality traits that both support and impede effective academic leadership; and to manage leadership performance problems and appropriately deal with a wrong fit.

Deans Networking Sessions

Tuesday, July 29: 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Four concurrent sessions are scheduled for deans to engage in discussions involving topical issues associated with ranking of colleges of pharmacy, conflict of interest policy and practices, strategic plan and assessment, ACPE Standards Revision 2016, and faculty research support strategies.

Deans Networking Sessions I:

2014-2015 Council of Deans Priority Issues on Ranking/Rating Colleges of Pharmacy and on Conflict of Interest Policy and Practice

Moderator: David D. Allen, The University of Mississippi;

Facilitator: Frank J. Ascione, The University of Michigan

Facilitator: Hershey S. Bell, LECOM

Deans Networking Sessions II:

The Life Cycle of a Strategic Plan: Environmental Scan to Assessment

Moderator: Robert A. Blouin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Mary R. McClurg, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Deans Networking Sessions III:

Examination, Discussion, and Suggestions on the Proposed ACPE Standards Revision 2016

Moderator: M. Lynn Crismon, The University of Texas at Austin

Deans Networking Sessions IV:

Assisting Schools of Pharmacy at Emerging Research Institutions

Moderator: Vincent Lau, AACP

Speaker: Kimberly A. Galt, Creighton University

COD Administrative Board Meetings

The COD Administrative Board met at the AACP Interim Meeting 2014 in Arlington, VA and through several conference calls.

Submitted by

M. Lynn Crismon, COD Chair