Certificate Training Programs
APhA’s The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program
APhA's The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program: Program Details
APhA’s The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program will provide an educational experience designed to equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. The program provides comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care and incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered — as well as the services most needed — in community and ambulatory care practice settings. Participants will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results, and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions.
APhA's The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program Brochure
Registration Fee:
OPA Member: $395
Non-member: $495 Join Now and Save!
PGY1 or PGY2 Resident: $325
Student Pharmacist: $225
Please note: If you are unable to attend the upcoming Diabetes certificate training program and are interested in receiving a notification about future programming, please submit the following form:
APhA’s Delivering MTM Services Certificate Training Program
APhA's Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services: Program Details
APhA’s Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services certificate training program (4th Edition) presents a systematic approach for developing, implementing, delivering, and sustaining MTM services. It includes an overview of the marketplace for delivering MTM services, guidance for implementing MTM services in pharmacy practice, a review of the essential skills and knowledge needed for performing MTM successfully, and an organized process for identifying medication-related problems. The purpose of this certificate training program is to prepare pharmacists to improve medication use through the delivery of MTM services in a variety of practice settings.
Classes are scheduled based on interest level. Please complete the MTMS Interest form and we will notify you when the next program will be offered.
MTMS Training Program Interest Form
Registration Fee:
OPA Member: $395
Non-member: $495 Join Now & Save!
PGY1 or PGY2 Resident: $325
GOALS OF THIS PRACTICE-BASED PROGRAM:
- Advance public health and patient care through improved medication use.
- Provide training to enhance pharmacists’ ability to effectively provide MTM services.
- Motivate increased numbers of pharmacists to establish MTM services.
- Communicate benchmark practices for providing MTM services.
APhA’s Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services certificate training program has three components: online interactive self-study with assessment; the live seminar with online evaluation; and post-seminar case exercise. A Certificate of Achievement will be awarded to participants who successfully complete all program components, including an evaluation.
SEMINAR AGENDA: |
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7:30AM–8:00AM |
Registration |
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8:00AM–8:20AM |
Welcome and Introduction |
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8:20AM–9:45AM |
The MTM Care Process |
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9:45AM–10:00AM |
Break |
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10:00AM–11:15AM |
Patient Communication During MTM Encounters |
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11:15AM–11:30AM |
Cultural Sensitivity |
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11:30AM–12:15PM |
Managing Special Needs of Elderly Patients |
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12:15PM–1:00PM |
Lunch and Networking |
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1:00PM –2:45PM |
Case Studies |
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2:45PM – 3:00PM |
Break |
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3:00PM–4:45PM |
MTM Implementation: Financial and Operational Issues |
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4:45PM–5:00PM |
Next Steps and Take Home Points |
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5:00PM–5:15PM |
Post-Seminar Assignment and Final Instructions |
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5:15PM |
Adjournment |
You must attend the live session to receive CE credit for this program.
Pharmacist Administered Injectables Certificate Training Program
Pharmacist Training Program for Long-Acting Injectables: Program Details
OPA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new Pharmacist Administered Injectables Certificate Training Program, previously known as Long-Acting Injectables Training Certificate Program, with the first opportunity to be held on April 8, 2026 at the Hilton Columbus at Easton.
We have revamped the entire certificate program to reflect the updates made to Section 4729.45 of the Revised Code and recent updates to rule 4729:1-3-03 of the Administrative Code (effective 1/7/2026).
This update to the rule has added several new drugs/drug classes that a pharmacist is authorized to administer, by subcutaneous or intramuscular injection in the state of Ohio, as long as the drug that is to be administered has been prescribed by a physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner; is administered in accordance with a prescriber-authorized protocol; and the individual to whom the drug was prescribed has an ongoing physician-patient or nurse-patient relationship with the physician or nurse.
The full list now includes:
- An addiction treatment drug administered in a long-acting or extended-release form, which may include any medication indicated for relapse prevention. NOTE: This includes the administration of controlled substances (e.g., buprenorphine) used to treat addiction in a long-acting or extended-release form.
- An antipsychotic drug administered in a long-acting or extended-release form.
- A human immunodeficiency virus treatment or prevention drug administered in a long-acting or extended-release form.
- Hydroxyprogesterone caproate for pregnant women.
- Medroxyprogesterone acetate for non-pregnant women.
- Cobalamin (including the administration of cyanocobalamin, hydroxocobalamin, or any other FDA-approved B12 injection).
- Antibiotics.
- Denosumab or romosozumab.
- Methotrexate for non-emergent conditions.
- Heparin, low molecular weight heparin, and factor Xa inhibitors.
April 8: Pharmacist Administered Injectables Certificate Training Program Brochure
This Certificate program, ACPE 0129-26-001-CP consists of 13.5 hours or 1.35 CEU total.
- 3.5-hour live session, 0129-0000-26-62-L04-P, 0.35 CEU, Application-based
- 9 home-study activities totaling 10 hours, Knowledge-based
- 0129-0000-26-53-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-54-H01-P, 0.15 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-55-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-56-H02-P, 0.15 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-57-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-58-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-59-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-60-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- 0129-0000-26-61-H01-P, 0.1 CEU
- Draft Protocols for all approved drugs/drug classes will be provided.
Registration is open for April 8 Training!
Unless the program reaches capacity prior to the following date, online registration will close on March 20, 2026.
Access to home-study materials will be granted in late March/early April. Completion of home-study materials are not required prior to the live training. However, completion of home-study materials are required to receive your certificate.
Registration Fee:
OPA Member: $295
OPA Member Resident: $265
Non-member: $425 Join now & Save!
Non-member Resident: $300 Join now & Save!
Student Pharmacist: $50
If interested in receiving a notification about future programming, please submit the following form:
APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians
Ohio Pharmacists Association, an APhA licensed partner, is offering APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians. This program was originally developed by Washington State University (WSU) and revised through a partnership between WSU and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). The Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians training program explores the expanding role of the pharmacy technician by providing additional skills training to administer immunizations.
This two-part program emphasizes a health care team collaboration between pharmacists and technicians which seeks to improve population health by increasing immunization rates in states that allow technicians to immunize. Composed of an online self-study component combined with a live seminar that teaches hands-on immunization techniques, this program will provide a total of six hours of continuing education for technicians.
Registration Fee:
OPA Technician Member $250
Technician Non-member $300
No training program is currently scheduled. To be notified when registration opens, use the link below.
