Report of the AACP Task Force on Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations

A task force was convened by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) to provide rationale for academic pharmacy engagement with organizations/institutions providing new models of team-based patient care designed to improve patient access, care quality, and affordable care. Descriptions of new care models, such as patient centered medical homes (PCMHs) and accountable care organizations (ACO), were included as well as descriptions of existing partnerships with academic pharmacy

Weaving the Paul/Elder Model of Critical Thinking with Mindfulness to Blanket the World in Fair-Minded Thinkers

What if we, as global citizens, blanketed the world with the Intellectual Virtues of Fairmindedness, Intellectual Empathy, Intellectual Perseverance, Intellectual Courage, Intellectual Integrity, and Confidence in Reason? During this workshop, we will provide you with the tools, the materials, and the directions to help you develop a daily practice of Mindfulness and also of Critical Thinking. We will be working with the Paul Elder Model of Critical Thinking and also the mindfulness techniques of open-monitoring and focused-attention. Join us in weaving a blanket of Intellectual Virtues that will warm the hearts and minds of humanity