118th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Nashville, Tennessee, July 15-19, 2017

A Learning and Assessment Focused Co-Curriculum. Cynthia Watchmaker, University of California, San Francisco, Megan Dross, University of California, San Francisco, Sharon L. Youmans, University of California, San Francisco. The UCSF School of Pharmacy has created and implemented a Co-Curricular Assessment program focused on developing practice ready, team ready pharmacists. Through a new Co-Curricular model, we re-envisioned a co-curriculum that is learning focused, student-centered and intentional. The UCSF Co-Curricular program encompasses six domains: 1) cultural understanding; 2) community outreach and service; 3) collaboration and teams; 4) professional skills and networking; 5) personal development and wellness, and 6) career planning and development. These six areas map to Standards 2016 and CAPE domains three and four, and reflect key tenets of the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. A key component of pharmacy education, co-curricular activities provide the opportunity for students to practice lifelong learning, demonstrate resilience, find balance, develop essential interpersonal skills, experience self-efficacy, and work with the ambiguity of human environments. The UCSF Co-Curriculum emphasizes quality over quantity, collaborative achievement, professional service and stewardship, and personal responsibility. Programing offered through student organizations, campus departments, professional associations and community partners provides a framework for students to experience a diverse portfolio of co-curricular activities. The program’s longitudinal format identifies activities appropriate to each professional year and includes required and elective experiences. The nature of an individual student’s co-curricular plan is designed to reflect the student’s strength’s, growth areas, goals, and interests. The learning objectives developed for co-curricular programs combined with student self-assessment and reflection have created a robust and learning focused co-curriculum and facilitated a comprehensive assessment of student learning in their professional, leadership and educational endeavors outside the classroom