Education
Pharmacy Education Opportunities
Whether you are a pharmacy owner, staff pharmacist, or pharmacy technician, NCPA can help you meet your continuing education requirements through a mix of live and online CE activities.
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Growth & Profitability Programs
Grow your pharmacies, empower your staff, and boost your profits with these interactive NCPA Innovation Center programs.
- Pharmacy-Based Point-of-Care Testing Certificate Program
- Pharmacogenomics
- The Business of Long-Term Care Workshop
- Pharmacy Ownership Workshop
- Enhanced Services Boot Camp
- Creating Health: Pharmacist-Led Lifestyle & Weight Management
- Thinking Outside the Vial
CORE: NCPA Leadership Program
CORE is not just another "how-to" program. It's a revolutionary approach to training pharmacy owners and their staff members toward success. We've assembled the most talented, most successful pharmacy owners and subject matter experts in the country to coach you on the most essential elements of team leadership.
Pharmacogenomics
Do you have patients who can’t seem to find the right treatment? Maybe nothing seems to work, or worse, they get all the unlikely side effects. Pharmacogenomics could be the answer!
NCPA Innovation Center/ CPESN Community Pharmacy Fellowship
The NCPA Innovation Center/ CPESN Community Pharmacy Fellowship is an intensive 12-month training program open to all practicing pharmacists working at a CPESN® USA pharmacy. CPESN pharmacies can specifically hire a fellow or enroll a current employee in the fellowship. The fellows would participate in regular discussion groups with their co-fellows, as well as, educational webinars on core topics led by a centralized faculty including luminaries and ACT faculty that instruct them how to implement clinical services.
Thinking Outside the Vial
This six-part series will dive into how you can address some of the most common disease states with tactics beyond medications. Functional medicine pharmacists and thought leaders, Lara Zakaria and Suzanne Keyes, will lead you through top disease states and how you can address them with a biological, systems-based approach.
Show Me
Show Me, a groundbreaking video series starring ordinary pharmacists with typical challenges who get help from some extraordinary peers. Our first season will premier this fall, and it will focus on immunization. We’ll pick five NCPA members who call for help, and we’ll send in an expert.
Webinars
Pharmacy owners and future pharmacy owners tune in the second Wednesday of every month to discover new ideas and ways to succeed in pharmacy ownership.
Executive Residency
The NCPA Executive Residency is a springboard into a career of association work or independent practice that will provide you with distinction as a future leader in the health care field.
Pathways to Pharmacy Ownership
A year-long, application-based program supporting and encouraging independent pharmacy ownership among pharmacists belonging to historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME)
Diabetes Accreditation Boot Camp, brought to you by PharmFurther and the NCPA Innovation Center is a turn-key online course that will help prepare you for DSME accreditation so you can finally start billing Medicare and other payers for the diabetes education you provide.
Creating Health
Obesity is the symptom of the body adapting and adjusting to its current culture and environment. Medication, genetics, culture? How can we help our patients?
A Guide to Point-of-care testing
Point-of-care testing (POCT) provides an excellent opportunity for community pharmacy teams to enhance patient care and expand revenue-generating services while improving health at the patient and population levels.
