Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cptl Experiences in Teaching and Learning Design of a 15-month interprofessional workplace learning program to expand the added value of clinical pharmacists in primary care Ankie Hazen a , Esther de Groot a, ⁎ , Han de Gier b , Roger Damoiseaux a , Dorien Zwart a , Anne Leendertse a a University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands b University of Groningen - Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, Unit of PharmacoTherapy, Epidemiology & Economics, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands ARTICLE INFO Keywords: Clinical pharmacists General practice Workplace learning Direct patient care ABSTRACT Background and purpose: Clinical pharmacists who work in the general practice settings bring an improvement to patient care and outcomes. Postgraduate training for an independent clinical role does not often occur in the primary health care setting. When it does, the design of the curriculum is infrequently based on interprofessional workplace learning principles and it does not always integrate practical experience with classroom-based learning activities. This could lead to situations where clinical pharmacists are insufficiently trained to apply clinical reasoning skills and direct patient care in the general practice setting. Educational activity and setting: A program was designed, including competencies and learning objectives, based on results from focus group interviews with stakeholders and the literature on interprofessional workplace learning. Ten participants were selected for a pilot run of the pro- gram and were asked several times for their opinion about the program. Findings: A 15-month training program was offered to pharmacists who became clinical phar- macists with the responsibility to perform patient consultations in general practice. The program was based on interprofessional workplace learning principles and facilitated the participants’ skill in connecting the evidence, the patients’ perspective and their own professional perspective. The 10 participating pharmacists were satisfied with the program. Discussion and summary: The training program provided increased opportunities to clinical pharmacists to add value in general practice. The training program enabled pharmacists to ad- vance their skills in direct patient care and to improve the alignment between different profes- sionals in the primary care domain. Background and purpose The role of pharmacists is changing and there is a shift from ‘dispensing pharmacy’ to providing pharmaceutical care. 1 Such developments lead to a demand for more clinical pharmacists in order to support the move away from dispensing activities. 2 Clinical https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2018.01.006 ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: a.c.m.hazen@umcutrecht.nl (A. Hazen), e.degroot@umcutrecht.nl (E. de Groot), j.j.de.gier@rug.nl (H. de Gier), r.a.m.damoiseaux@umcutrecht.nl (R. Damoiseaux), d.l.m.zwart@umcutrecht.nl (D. Zwart), a.j.leendertse-3@umcutrecht.nl (A. Leendertse). Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning xxx (xxxx) xxx–xxx 1877-1297/ © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please cite this article as: Hazen, A., Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cptl.2018.01.006