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.
Site-Specific Educational Outcomes
Speciality Pharmacy (20 Weeks)
- Patient Care
- Advancing practice and improving patient care
- Leadership and management
- Teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge
Long-Term Care Pharmacy Outcomes (7 Weeks)
- Patient care
- Advancing practice and improving patient care
- Leadership and management
- Teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge
- Credentialing
Jersey Shore University Medical Center High-Risk Outcomes (Longitudinal) Include: Diabetes, Pulmonary, and Pulmonary HTN
- Patient care
- Management of medical emergencies
- Treatment of hospitalized patients
- Continuity of care
- Medication event report and monitoring
Population Health Outcomes (7 weeks)
- Patient care
- Advancing practice and improving patient care
- Leadership and management
- Teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge
- Academia
- Continuity of care
Home Infusion Outcomes (7 weeks)
- Patient care
- Advancing practice and improving patient care
- Leadership and management
- Teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge
- Continuity of care
Required Rotations
- Specialty Pharmacy (20 weeks)
- Long-term Care Pharmacy (7 weeks)
- Home Infusion (7 weeks)
- High-Risk Patient Ambulatory Clinics (7 weeks)
- Population Health (7 weeks)
- Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (3 days)
Elective Rotations
- Diabetes Clinic (1 month)
- Pulmonary Clinic (1 month)
- Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic (1 month)
- Specialty Pharmacy (1 month)
- Long-term Care Pharmacy (1 month)
- Home Infusion (1 month)
- High-Risk Patient Ambulatory Clinics (1 month)
- Population Health (1 month)
Core Concentrated Rotations (Required Rotations)
- Specialty Pharmacy (20 weeks)
- HighlyReliableRX/Long-Term Care Pharmacy (7 weeks)
- Jane Booker Family Health Center- Pulmonary Clinic (7 weeks)
- Population Health (7 weeks)
- Home Infusion (7 weeks)
Longitudinal Rotations (Required)
- Jane Booker Family Health Center- Diabetes Clinic (once a month for 48 weeks)
- HMH Ocean County Family Care - Internal Medicine Clinic (once a month for 48 weeks)
- Academic longitudinal experience (3 days at Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Staffing (monthly on-call staffing at Specialty Pharmacy until completion 376.5 hours and after hours staffing twice a week for 5 weeks at Long Term Care Pharmacy (40 hours))
- Research Project (half-day every week is a dedicated project day, 48 weeks)
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