The sustainability of improvements from continuing professional development in pharmacy practice and XXXX .

@entity1 @entity146
OBJECTIVE: To assess the long-term sustainability of continuing professional development (CPD) training in pharmacy practice and @entity146 . METHODS: This was a 3-year posttrial survey of pharmacists who had participated in an unblinded randomized controlled trial of CPD. The online survey assessed @entity1 ' perceptions of pharmacy practice, @entity146 , and sustainability of CPD. Differences between groups on the posttrial survey responses and changes from the trial's follow-up survey to the posttrial survey responses within the intervention group were compared. RESULTS: Of the 91 pharmacists who completed the original trial, 72 (79%) participated in the sustainability survey. Compared to control @entity1 , a higher percentage of intervention @entity1 reported in the sustainability survey that they had utilized the CPD concept (45.7% vs 8.1%) and identified personal learning objectives (68.6% vs 43.2%) during the previous year. Compared to their follow-up survey responses, lower percentages of intervention @entity1 reported identifying personal learning objectives (94.3% vs 68.6%), documenting their learning plan (82.9% vs 22.9%) and participating in learning by doing (42.9% vs 14.3%) in the sustainability survey. In the intervention group, many of the improvements to pharmacy practice items were sustained over the 3-year period but were not significantly different from the control group. CONCLUSION: Sustainability of a CPD intervention over a 3-year varied. While CPD-trained pharmacists reported utilizing CPD concepts at a higher rate than control pharmacists, their CPD @entity146 diminished over time.
