BC Case Presentation
The BC Case Presentation is an opportunity for residents to present a well-organized 20-minute case presentation that outlines the resident's thought process and a care plan to resolve a patient-related issue. Successful completion of the BC Case Presentation is a requirement for successful completion of the Program.
A BC Case Presentation Guide has been developed to support residents in preparing for their presentation. Residents are encouraged to review this guide as they prepare for their presentation:
Goals
- To deliver a well organized case presentation using well developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- To demonstrate your thought process in the provision of evidence-based care by identifying a drug therapy problem of focus, formulating a clinical question from this DTP, assessing the literature as it relates to the clinical question, implementing a care plan to resolve the DTP and defending your recommendation(s).
Timing and Audience
The BC Case Presentations begin in December and occur monthly on a Friday afternoon until March. Residents will be assigned their presentation date by the Program Coordinator at the beginning of the residency year. Each session will include 5 BC resident presentations. Residents will present their presentation via Zoom. The audience will consist of the Program Coordinators and residents from the Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health and BC Cancer residency programs.
Preparation and Planning
- Residents will receive their case presentation date at the beginning of the residency year. This will be scheduled in one45 under "My Calendar".
- These presentations will take place via Zoom. Residents will be provided with the Zoom information. Rooms have been booked at all rotation sites for the residents to have a quiet place to attend the presentations.
- Residents who are not presenting, will attend as audience members. Attendance is mandatory.
- Residents will be scheduled to present their case presentation based on their residency direct patient care rotation schedule and are expected to have completed at least one direct patient care rotation prior to delivering their BC Case Presentation.
- The resident who is presenting will put a copy of their presentation slides in PDF formation into the BC Case Presentation Dropbox no later than midnight the night before the presentation so that the slides can be viewed by the audience during the presentation.
- Example case presentations will be provided to residents at the beginning of the residency year.
- Residents are to review the Guide above to prepare for the presentation.
- The Program Coordinator will review the resident's slides and provide feedback in advance of the presentation to support the resident in preparing for this presentation.
Selecting a Case Presentation Topic
- Residents will identify a case presentation topic during a direct patient care rotation and develop the presentation for presentation as part of the direct patient care rotation. Therefore, the BC Case Presentation will be the second time this presentation is presented.
- Residents are encouraged to be proactive in looking ahead to ensure that they have an opportunity to develop and deliver a case presentation on a direct patient care rotation in advance of their BC Case Presentation.
- An appropriate case presentation patient is a patient that you provided proactive pharmaceutical care to as part of a direct patient care rotation. As part of this process, you identified an actual or potential DTP for this patient that required resolution. This DTP was identified and resolved as part of the proactive direct patient care you provided to this patient. This DTP should lead to a clinical question that you identified from learning about the disease state and therapeutics that relate to this DTP.
Evaluation and Criteria for Successful Completion
The resident will be evaluated by the BC Pharmacy Residency Coordinators using the following evaluation:
In order to successfully complete the BC Case Presentation, the resident must meet the standard for all "Content" evaluation criteria and also must meet the standard for at least 3 out of the 5 "Communication and Visual Aids" evaluation criteria. The standard for each evaluation criterion is outlined in the evaluation. If a resident is unsuccessful, they will be required to deliver another case presentation to the BC residency group or group of preceptors. The audience will be determined by the Program Coordinator.
Last updated June 9, 2023