The 2008 Updates in Therapeutics: The Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Course is now available as an online educational program through the ACCP Online Educational Center at http://www.accp.com/bookstore/ppc08.php.

The online program duplicates the live program, featuring the same lectures and slide presentations as well as handouts, and offers up to 21.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit. This program will be available for online access through October 31, 2009. The lectures from the 2008 Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Course are also available on a CD-ROM.

Presenters are Debra Barnette, Linda Bressler, Robert DeYoung, Edward Foote, Brian Hemstreet, Tudy Hodgman, William Kehoe, Teresa Klepser, Kirsten Ohler, Jo Ellen Rodgers, Melody Ryan, Gordan Sacks, Curtis Smith, Anne Spencer, and Ceressa Ward.

The 2008 Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Course covers the following topics:

• Acute Care Cardiology
• Ambulatory Care
• Biostatistics
• Clinical Trial Design
• Critical Care
• Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
• Fluids, Electrolytes, and Nutrition
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• General Psychiatry
• Geriatrics
• HIV/Infectious Diseases
• Infectious Diseases
• Men's and Women's Health
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Oncology Supportive Care
• Outpatient Cardiology
• Pediatrics
• Pharmacokinetics

All program content was developed and coordinated by ACCP members and staff.