Wesley Nuffer
Assistant Research Professor
Pharmacy
University of Colorado Denver
Box 6511, 12631 E 17th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-2654
Wesley.Nuffer@ucdenver.edu
Abstract
Dr. Nuffer’s project is centered around student-supported diabetes clinics that have been established at different pharmacy locations around the state of Colorado. The goal with these clinics is to provide an experiential learning site for pharmacy students entering their 4th professional year of pharmacy school. Students are scheduled to manage these clinics for 6 weeks, seeing diabetes patients who have enrolled in a 6 month education program and helping to educate these patients and improve their health. This project involves developing an assessment tool to measure the impact that these diabetes clinics have on the pharmacy students’ education. This tool will be administered to students prior to their experience at the diabetes clinic site and will be given again after the students have completed their diabetes experience. The tool will be designed to measure students’ diabetes didactic knowledge base, their decision-making skills in regards to diabetes management, and their comfort levels in interviewing and assessing diabetes patients. This tool should help measure the impact that the diabetes clinic experience has on the pharmacy students’ education in the disease state management of diabetes, and will open up avenues for optimizing and improving the different clinics to best meet the educational needs of the students.