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Finding correlation between PhORCAS letters of recommendation and clinical aptitude among PGY1 residency candidates - Ep 163 Jul 16, 2025

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Join host Dr. Rob DiDomenico, JACCP associate editor, and learn how Dr. Casey C. May, clinical associate professor at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, and her colleagues assessed past residency candidate letters of recommendation to draw out key themes that correlate with clinical aptitude. Listen and discover what three independent themes correlated with higher clinical case scores. Dr. Aaron Cook, associate professor at the University of Kentucky, provides perspective based on his role as the PGY1 residency program director for many years. You'll also find meaningful tips for you as a letter of recommendation writer. Read the full-text open access manuscript in the July 2025 issue of JACCP.

Achieving Bidirectional Health Information Exchange with Community Pharmacies - Ep 162 Jun 20, 2025

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Podcast host and JACCP Editor-in-Chief, Stuart T. Haines, and guests, Leigh Ann Ross, Dean and Bell Endowed Chair at the Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy, and Zack Dumont, Manager of Clinical Pharmacy for the Saskatchewan Health Authority. discuss the recently released ACCP Commentary titled "Framework and recommendations to support bidirectional information sharing between community pharmacies and other health care setting.”

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Why bidirectional information exchange between all settings of care, including community pharmacies, is important for ACCP, the pharmacy profession, and society.
How Kotter's change management framework can be applied to achieve this goal.
Key barriers to successful bidirectional health information exchange and potential solutions.

The ACCP Commentary was published in JACCP online in March 2025 and in the May 2025 issue of the journal.

Evaluating the Economic Impact of Pharmacist Interventions: Improving Patient Care and the Bottom Line - Ep 161 May 19, 2025

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This podcast episode discusses the economic value of clinical pharmacy services, drawing on a 30-year series of systematic reviews. It highlights the established evidence that these services improve medication use, safety, and effectiveness, while emphasizing the critical need for robust economic evaluations to demonstrate cost-effectiveness and return on investment for health systems, insurers, patients, and society. Read the full manuscript at: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jac5.70034.

Updates in Chronic Kidney Disease Management - Ep 160 May 06, 2025

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The authors evaluate the efficacy and safety of emerging therapeutic strategies for CKD management, including sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), finerenone, sacubitril/valsartan, and potassium binders. Read the full text manuscript at: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.70014.

Impact of AI on clinical pharmacy practice, research and scholarship - Ep 159 Apr 21, 2025

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Drs. Adrian Wong, Sandra Kane-Gill, and Alexandre Chan discuss their ACCP Committee work with associate editor, Dr. Alan Zillich. The committees' work resulted in two papers describing the current and future role of AI in clinical pharmacy practice, research, and scholarship. Read the full-text manuscripts: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jac5.70004 and https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jac5.70003.

Antibiotic Safety in Pregnancy - Ep 158 Apr 14, 2025

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Dr. Michael Rybak hosts authors of the 2025 Update on Antibiotic Safety in Pregnancy. Listen to what you can expect from this comprehensive review of changes and new drugs, since 2015. Access full text of the manuscript at: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.70010

Removing Oral Phenylephrine from the Market - Ep 157 Apr 03, 2025

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Learn about the decades of effort put in by Drs. Leslie Hendeles and Randy Hatton to get the ineffective oral formulation of phenylephrine removed from OTC products. Dr. Kelly Goode provides perspective on the importance of the community clinical pharmacist for optimizing patient care and understanding. Read the full manuscript at: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jac5.2080.

Prevalence of prescription medication use that can exacerbate heart failure - Ep 156 Mar 07, 2025

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The goal is to reduce high-risk medication use to mitigate HF exacerbations and improve outcomes. Author Joshua Jacobs shares his teams work on determining the prevalence of prescription medication use that can exacerbate heart failure among US adults with heart failure. Read the full text OPEN ACCESS manuscript at: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.4648.

Genetic Testing & Formularies: Optimizing Medication Safety & Effectiveness - Ep 155 Feb 25, 2025

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In this episode of the JACCP Podcast, hosts Robbie Parker and Stuart T. Haines discuss the impact of pharmacogenomics on formulary decision-making with Dr. Jacob Brown and Dr. Larisa Cavallari. The conversation highlights how genetic testing should influence a Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) committee’s work to optimize medication safety and effectiveness. The guests discuss the variability in pharmacogenomic adoption across institutions, barriers such as clinician education, cost, and reimbursement challenges, and the importance of physician-pharmacist collaboration. They also described gene-drug pairs where the evidence is compelling, like clopidogrel, fluoropyrimidines and codeine, demonstrating the value of pharmacogenetic-guided prescribing. Finally, they offer guidance for smaller institutions looking to implement pharmacogenomic strategies, emphasizing a stepwise approach and leveraging available resources. Read The impact of pharmacogenomics on a pharmacy and therapeutic committee's formulary system management: An opinion of the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics/pharmacogenomics practice and Research Network for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy in JACCP.

Disease modifying therapies for ATTR-CM - Ep 154 Feb 04, 2025

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A comprehensive overview of transthyretin amyloidosis, its treatment, barriers to treatment, and future challenges to be aware of with authors, Drs. Erika L. Hellenbart and Robert J. DiDomenico. Full text of the manuscript is available at: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.4639.

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