Making it Happen: Deprescribing Education Program

Welcome to Making it Happen: Deprescribing Education Program

This program was developed after consultation with many stakeholders, including patients, healthcare providers, and policymakers, who identified a need for an interprofessional deprescribing education program for healthcare providers and students.

This program is aimed at nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physicians, and registered nurses working in primary care practice and students in nursing, medicine, and pharmacy.

Development and Acknowledgements:

The project was started by the Optimizing Therapy Through Collaboration (OPTx) Team led by Dr. Jennifer Isenor and Dr. Natalie Kennie-Kaulbach at the College of Pharmacy at Dalhousie University.

Content developers for the modules were: Isaac Bai, Eden d’Entremont-MacVicar, Dr. Jennifer Isenor, Dr. Natalie Kennie-Kaulbach, and Dr. Shanna Trenaman.  

Deprescribing Champions who shared their experiences in module videos were: Eden d’Entremont-MacVicar, Dr. Alethea Lacas, and Cheryl Smith.

Website and course development were supported by Hannah Gormley, Ella Kim, and Emma Ramsay, who were pharmacy students at the College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University at the time of program development.

The project was supported by many colleagues throughout, including Sarah Burgess, Dr. Sarah Burm, Dr. Christine Cassidy, Olga Kits, Dr. Ruth Martin-Misener, Dr. Jill McSweeney-Flaherty, Dr. Emily Reeve, and Dr. Shanna Trenaman.

We would like to thank the following people who reviewed the program at various times and provided invaluable feedback: Samy Barsum, Dr. Lisa Bonang, Bridgette Chan, Eden d’Entremont-MacVicar, Melanie Dunlop, Dr. Elizabeth Gillis, Kori Hamilton, Dr. Kathleen Horrey, and Cheryl Smith.

The project was funded through a grant from the Dalhousie Pharmacy Endowment Fund.