Earn a Certificate from the APhA
Certificate training programs through the American Pharmacists Association provide specialized knowledge and skills to enhance your expertise in specific areas of practice, such as immunizations, medication therapy management or diabetes care. These programs improve your clinical competence and will increase your career opportunities and professional credibility.
Your success will align with our mission-focused goals to:
- Develop educational activities that engage you and assist in your continuing
professional development - Provide evidence-based, high-quality educational programs for pharmacists that are free from bias
- Deliver educational activities that enhance your knowledge, application and/or skills
APhA Certificate Programs
Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery
Based on national educational standards for immunization training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this practice-based curriculum represents a fusion of science and clinical pharmacy. The program, which emphasizes a health care team approach, fosters the implementation of interventions that will promote disease prevention and public health. You'll be prepared with comprehensive knowledge, skills and resources necessary to provide immunization services to patients across the life span.
Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians
Developed through a partnership between Washington State University and the APhA, the APhA/WSU Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians training program explores the expanding role of the pharmacy technician by providing additional skills training to administer immunizations. This two-part program emphasizes a health care team collaboration between pharmacists and technicians which seeks to improve population health by increasing immunization rates in states that allow technicians to immunize.
Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services
This certificate program presents a systematic approach for developing, implementing, delivering and sustaining MTM services. It includes an overview of the marketplace for delivering MTM services, guidance for implementing MTM services in pharmacy practice, a review of the essential skills and knowledge needed for performing MTM successfully, and an organized process for identifying medication-related problems. You'll be prepared to improve medication use through the delivery of MTM services in a variety of practice settings.
The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care
This educational experience will equip you with the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. Comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered—as well as the services most needed—in community and ambulatory care practice settings. You will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results, and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions.