Advancing the pharmacy practice model through statewide resident collaboration

In 2011, ASHP and the ASHP Research and Education Foundation published recommendations from the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI).1 The recommendations set ambitious goals for national pharmacy practice advancement and individual pharmacy departments. For the past two years, the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin (PSW) has partnered with program directors of Wisconsin administrative pharmacy residencies and their residents to form the PSW PPMI leadership team and systematically advance the goals of PPMI across the state. In the inaugural 2010 initiative, the ASHP Research and Education Foundation collaborated with the PSW PPMI leadership team to develop a gap-analysis tool that was ultimately refined and distributed as the PPMI hospital self-assessment tool. Notably, the initiative demonstrated the potential value of a pharmacy resident partnership with state affiliate leadership in driving pharmacy practice advancement. In 2011, the residents again partnered with PSW and ASHP to develop evidence-based resources supporting the creation of a...