Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) is the process of providing verbal or written material to the patient to improve understanding and prevent complications. TPE offers an understanding of the chronic disease process and instruction about behaviors and activities to empower the patient.

Patient education benefits the patients, health care community, insurance companies and taxpayers.

Making a patient knowledgeable gives them the power to succeed and get autonomy. In contrast, not educating a patient about their care and providing direction for understanding leaves the transplanted patient at risk of having complications. The pharmacist is invited to get involved in TPE programmes as caregiver around the patient. TPE is part of the process of Pharmaceutical Care. To perform TPE, the pharmacist must be trained and optimize his agenda to further commit into TPE program.

This workshop will go through the different education steps of an education program: from educational diagnostic to evaluation. Case studies will be proposed to attendants to better understand the main assets of such TPE program.

Teaching Goals:

• having an overview of therapeutic education patient program
• increasing the awareness of the role of pharmacist in therapeutic education
• presenting the different steps of an education program

Learning objectives:

After the workshop the participant should:

• be able to identify patient needs
• be able to understand methods/tools of education that can be used
• be able to understand that education needs a partnership with the patient and other caregivers
• be able to set up outcomes within an education program