Provides disease state management certificate mini-traineeships to pharmacists looking to advance their practices. Provides pharmacy store, drug representative and employment listings to constituents. Identifiesand monitors pharmacist training sites and faculty provides direct preceptorship. VPTF is responsible for advancing pharmacy practice by instituting North Carolina's first pharmacist independent provider association, Piedmont Pharmaceutical Care Network, contracting with qualified and credentialed pharmacists to provide, promote and arrange clinical pharmacy services in this region. Research projects include drug assays, educational effectiveness, therapeutic effectiveness, and pharmacoeconomics.
Research is submitted for publication in major medical and pharmacy journals.
Measurable results are used to improve performance and facilitate communication of goals and objectives to evaluate and improve our curriculum and instructional methodology. Pharmacists faculty are nationally renown and available to contract with physician groups for formulary issues, evaluate individual drugs, provide drug class reviews and create therapeutic algorithms based on national guidelines.