• Christine M Formea, Wayne T Nicholson, Kristen B McCullough, Kevin D Berg, Melody L Berg, Julie L Cunningham, Julianna A Merten, Narith N Ou, and Joanna L Stollings.
• Department of Pharmacy Services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. formea.christine@mayo.edu
• Am J Pharm Educ. 2013 Feb 12; 77 (1): 10.

AbstractObjectives. To evaluate hospital and outpatient pharmacists' pharmacogenomics knowledge before and 2 months after participating in a targeted, case-based pharmacogenomics continuing education program.Design. As part of a continuing education program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), pharmacists were provided with a fundamental pharmacogenomics education program.Evaluation. An 11-question, multiple-choice, electronic survey instrument was distributed to 272 eligible pharmacists at a single campus of a large, academic healthcare system. Pharmacists improved their pharmacogenomics test scores by 0.7 questions (pretest average 46%; posttest average 53%, p=0.0003).Conclusions. Although pharmacists demonstrated improvement, overall retention of educational goals and objectives was marginal. These results suggest that the complex topic of pharmacogenomics requires a large educational effort in order to increase pharmacists' knowledge and comfort level with this emerging therapeutic opportunity.

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