Purpose
The goal was to develop an approach to teach Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiential (APPE) students from an accelerated program, who had limited time in the laboratory to conduct publishable multi-disciplinary science bench research. The specific aims were 1) Discuss how to involve Pharm. D. candidates to perform laboratory research in multiple science disciplines. 2) How to assess the success of the innovation.

Methods
The project included several disciplines such as Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, and Cardiology. It took five years to complete the project. First year of the project was devoted to establishing funding, protocols, and supplies (task 1). Task 2 (hands-on experiments) was the project implementation that involved final-year APPE students; The major project was divided into 7 multi-disciplinary mini-projects. APPE students were allocated to each of the mini project based on their availability, prior experience, hands-on skills, and devotion. Two mini-projects were conducted during the second year with APPE student group 1 (class of 2012, n=1). Five mini-projects were conducted during third year in each quarter, with student groups 2-5 (Class of 2013, n=5). The fourth year was devoted to task 3, which is writing the introduction of the manuscript (class of 2014, n=1). Task 4 was to perform data analysis, create figures, write the manuscript, and get it published in a peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed journal. The group 5 student and the faculty mentor analyzed the data, finalized the figures, and wrote the manuscript during year 5. The innovation was implemented and assessed via conducting science experiments that produced publishable data and scholarly outcome.

Results
The outcomes of the innovation were student learning, posters, abstracts, oral presentations, and a peer-reviewed science publication with 6 student co-authorships.

Conclusion
The innovation was successfully implemented and assessed.