Program Details
Our Mission
Our mission is to create a comprehensive academic environment to teach our residents the skills, knowledge, and responsibilities of a pharmacist as a medication expert, drug information resource, and patient advocate.
Curriculum
The resident will be expected to manage and work towards an independent role in the clinic(s). The resident will be expected to complete a medication reconciliation review of the patient’s home medication list, provide medication counseling, utilize teach-back methods, assist/facilitate medication access issues, and assess/provide guideline-directed medication recommendations as needed.
The resident will collaborate and integrate with the physician(s) or medical team to provide recommendations and counseling. The resident will meet with the primary preceptor for each clinic site for follow-up as needed. Preceptor to serve in a facilitating role. The resident will be expected to increase patient volume and workload based on competence. The resident should initiate conversations with patients and caregivers to ascertain their understanding, health literacy, beliefs, attitudes, goals, values, and preferences.
Core Rotations
- Internal Medicine Clinic
- Pulmonary Specialty Clinics
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Long Term Care
- Population Health
- Home Infusion
- Elective
Longitudinal Rotations
- Specialty Clinics: (Diabetes, Pulmonary, Internal Medicine, and HIV Clinic)
- Academic (Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Teaching and Learning (Journal Club, Quality Improvement, Continuing Education, etc)
- Research Project
Didactic
There will be opportunities to teach in both small group and large lecture hall settings. Formal conference lectures for the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residents are also required.
Responsibilities
Though certain responsibilities of the resident are required, the program has the flexibility to develop activities consistent with the resident’s background and career goals. In general, the resident’s responsibilities include:
- Perform daily patient care activities at Hackensack Meridian Health and make appropriate recommendations to interdisciplinary treatment teams
- Design, monitor, and evaluate treatment goals for Ambulatory Care patients that consider patient-, disease-, and drug-specific information and ethical considerations
- Present educational in-services on pharmacy topics to patients, pharmacy staff, and the interdisciplinary treatment team
- Co-precept pharmacy students
- Complete a research project, as well as present this research at a conference