Knowledge
- Learner: Seek, analyze, integrate, and apply foundational knowledge of medications and pharmacy practice (biomedical; pharmaceutical; social, behavioral, administrative; and clinical sciences; drug classes; and digital health)
Skills
- Problem-solver: Use problem solving and critical thinking skills, along with an innovative mindset, to address challenges and to promote positive change
- Communicator: Actively engage, listen, and communicate verbally, nonverbally, and in writing when interacting with or educating an individual, group, or organization
- Ally: Mitigate health disparities by considering, recognizing, and navigating cultural and structural factors (e.g. social determinants of health, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) to improve access and health outcomes
- Provider: Provide whole person care to individuals as the medication specialist using the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process
- Advocate: Promote the best interests of patients and/or the pharmacy profession within healthcare settings and at the community, state, or national level
- Steward: Optimize patient healthcare outcomes using human, financial, technological, and physical resources to improve the safety, efficacy, and environmental impact of medication use systems
- Collaborator: Actively engage and contribute as a healthcare team member by demonstrating core interprofessional competencies
- Promoter: Assess factors that influence the health and wellness of a population and develop strategies to address those factors
- Leader: Demonstrate the ability to influence and support the achievement of shared goals on a team, regardless of one’s role
Attitudes
- Self-aware: Examine, reflect on, and address personal and professional attributes (e.g., knowledge, metacognition, skills, abilities, beliefs, biases, motivation, help-seeking strategies, and emotional intelligence that could enhance or limit growth, development, & professional identity formation
- Professional: Exhibit attitudes and behaviors that embody a commitment to building and maintaining trust with patients, colleagues, other health care professionals, and society