Pharmacy Practice Residency

PGY1 Ambulatory Pharmacy Residency Program

Objectives

The objectives of the PGY1 Residency-Ambulatory at The Regional Medical Center are to provide systematic training of the resident for the purpose of achieving professional competence in the delivery of patient-centered care in a wide variety of ambulatory and inpatient care settings and in pharmacy operational services. PGY1 residents acquire substantial knowledge required for skillful problem solving, refine their problem-solving strategies, strengthen their professional values and attitudes, and advance the growth of their clinical judgment. The instructional emphasis is on the progressive development of clinical judgment, a process begun in the advanced pharmacy practice experiences of the professional school years but requiring further extensive practice, self-reflection, and shaping of decision-making skills fostered by feedback on performance. The specific program for each resident may vary in structure based upon the resident's entry-level knowledge base, skill and interest. This residency is accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

The PGY1–Ambulatory Residency is a 12-month (2,000 hour minimum) program composed of advanced ambulatory and inpatient practice experiences. Residents receive training and develop competence in managing and improving the medication-use process, providing evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy management with interdisciplinary teams, exercise leadership and practice-management skills, demonstrate project-management skills, provide medication and practice-related education/training, and utilize informatics. Residents will spend six months in a variety of ambulatory care clinics or diabetes education, two months on an internal medicine team treating patients in a hospital setting, one month in drug information/drug policy development, one month in practice management, one month in the specialized inpatient pharmacy services (anticoagulation and pharmacokinetics), and one month of inpatient drug distribution training.