Pharmacy Informatics Education and Training – Workgroup Report

Objectives Education objectives (for current offerings) 1.Participants will learn about current PBM Pharmacy informatics Education Activities for VA FileMan reports and MUMPS programming language 2.Participants will learn how to access and use PBM SharePoint as a rich resource of information for past and present sessions of VA FileMan and MUMPS 3.Participants will learn about future sessions to be offered by PBM PI.

PBM-Sponsored Training Courses FileMan – Basic – Intermediate – Advanced MUMPS – Basic – Intermediate/Advanced (combined section)

FileMan Current Year – Basic: Once every other week (recent change) – Intermediate: Once every other week – Advanced: Once Monthly Next Scheduled Registration – Approximately Oct 2011 (coincides with start of FY2012) Faculty: Tom Fagan and Shawn Toy

MUMPS Current Year – Basic: Once every other week – Intermediate/Advanced: Once every other week Next Scheduled Registration – Approximately Oct 2011 (start of FY 2012) Faculty: Rob Silverman

Access to Content PBM Clinical Informatics Education and Training SharePoint Site – Link to Top of Site: informatics/PBMCIETSITE/default.aspx informatics/PBMCIETSITE/default.aspx Recordings are currently being hosted on a separate server

Lessons Learned The choice of the alternating-week schedule was to provide instructors more time for documentation and recording processing With travel schedules, leave, holidays and other meetings, this has shown to be less effective as it can result in periods of 1 month between sessions for attendees