Background: Leadership skills are required to promote and advance clinical pharmacy practice in Nigeria. The Nigerian pharmacy curriculum does not include any modules or training in leadership. Objective: A twelve-month online training on leadership and clinical pharmacy improvement was designed and delivered to intern pharmacists in Nigeria using the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) method of instructional design. The goal was to train interns to demonstrate leadership skills by identifying gaps in patient care or medication use processes at their practice sites and developing projects to solve them. Method: The Kirkpatrick's four-level method of training evaluation was used to assess the training. Result: About 42% of participants completed the training with the required capstone project. Conclusion: This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a yearlong training designed to provide pharmacy interns in Nigeria with the necessary leadership skills to advance the field of clinical pharmacy.

The Problem: Leadership and clinical-pharmacy advancement training are lacking during post-graduate pharmacy internships in Nigeria. Objective: To design and develop a leadership and clinical-pharmacy advancement training curriculum for intern pharmacists. Innovation: The curriculum was designed to include leadership development, process improvement, and project management, with a culminating capstone project, using the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (ADDIE) model. Twelve intern-pharmacists were selected representing three pharmacy schools and four hospitals in Nigeria. Baseline assessments included previous exposure to module topics, beliefs, and level of comfort with module skills. Findings: The leadership curriculum was developed and tested on 12 intern pharmacists. Their average age±SD was 23.4±1.9 years and 7(58.3%) of the participants were males. The participants had received previous training in leadership (33.3%), project management (16.7%), and process improvement (16.7%).  In addition, 91.6% believed intern pharmacists could be leaders in advancing clinical pharmacy practice. Conclusion: The leadership and clinical-pharmacy advancement training curriculum was designed and developed using the ADDIE model for intern-pharmacists, who were highly prepared.