Resident Job Description

Background: A PGY1 community-based pharmacy residency is a twelve-month practice-based post-graduate program that provides the opportunity for accelerated professional growth beyond entry-level professional competence in direct patient care, pharmacy operations, and management and leadership.

Position Purpose: To build upon the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to develop community‐based pharmacist practitioners with diverse patient care, leadership, and education skills who are eligible to pursue advanced training opportunities including postgraduate year two (PGY2) residencies and professional certifications.

The pharmacy resident develops competency by working under the guidance of pharmacist preceptors to develop the following core areas:

• Direct Patient Care
• Leadership and Management
• Advancement of Community-based Practice and Improving Patient Care
• Teaching, Education, and Dissemination of Knowledge

Key Accountabilities:

• Staff in pharmacy providing services, such as: prescription processing, benefits investigation, inventory management, patient counseling, self-care triage and consultation, immunizations, medication administration, MTM, Specialty Care, diabetes care, and pharmacist prescribing services (where applicable)
• Independently staff one weekend per month

Patient Care Services and Operations Support

• Conduct pharmacy site visits with Patient Care Services Managers (PCSM) and Patient Care Pharmacists (PCP) to collaborate in providing direct instruction, coaching, and facilitating pharmacy team engagement in the provision of patient-centered care services and compliance with standard operational procedures
• Assist with pharmacy team training programs
• Collaborate in conducting community health events and marketing (flu clinics, health screenings, presentations)
• Develop, implement and evaluate an innovative service or enhance existing services

Affiliated Ambulatory Care/Institutional Settings

• Provide patient care services in an ambulatory care setting

Alliance College of Pharmacy

• Teach classes at college of pharmacy
• Complete teaching certificate (or equivalent) program
• Develop research study design and analysis
• Precept IPPE/APPE students

Knowledge and Experience

Education Level:

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program
• Licensed or eligible for licensure in state or jurisdiction where residency program conducted

Experience Level:

• Experience commensurate with requirements of new pharmacy graduates
• Academic performance, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities necessary to achieve the residency program goals and objectives will be evaluated

Key Contacts

Internal:

• Director of Pharmacy Operations - Division
• Manager of Academic Relations- Corporate
• Residency Program Director - Division (weekly interaction)
• Pharmacy Residency Preceptor(s) - Division (almost daily interaction)

External:

• College of Pharmacy
• Ambulatory Care and Institutional Settings

Supervision :

• Number of Direct Reports: None
• Total Number of Indirect Reports:
  • Number of Exempt: 0
  • Number of Nonexempt: 0