PGY1 Community Residency
Program Description
The community pharmacy residency program at MSOP is a 12-month training program specific to the independent pharmacy setting. For the 2013-2014 year, there is one PGY1 community pharmacy residency position available.
The graduating resident will be prepared to manage the operation of a community pharmacy, to provide ambulatory disease state management services, to implement new, profitable clinical services, and teaching and precepting students.
Learning Experiences
Required:
- Longitudinal (up to 9 months)
- Community Pharmacy Practice
- Drug Information
- Clinical and Academic Teaching
- Teaching and Learning Program
- Community Practice Management
- Research Project
- Concentrated (1 month)
- Ownership
- Orientation
- Research
Elective (1-Month concentrated, select up to 2):
- Planned based on resident interest and may include
- Compounding
- Residency Program Direction
- Novel learning experience proposals considered
Service
Community pharmacy residents are required to provide staffing service to the pharmacy up to 10 weekday hours per week and up to 16 weekend hours per month. Service may be either staffing or clinical, depending on the needs of the site.Residents also complete one community service activity per quarter.
Teaching
The resident will develop his or her skills as an educator and a preceptor for less experienced learners. The resident will co-precept student pharmacists on community pharmacy rotations, lead discussions with students, and participate in student evaluations. The resident will provide inservices to the pharmacy staff, provide continuing education presentations pharmacists and technicians, and offer education sessions on various topics to members of the local community. The resident will also complete a teaching and learning program with other MSOP residents which will introduce concepts of academic teaching, precepting techniques and other educational theories and provide the resident with opportunities to teach in the didactic, laboratory and experiential setting.
Other Opportunities
The resident will complete a research project and present findings at the Southeastern Residency Conference (SERC), will submit at least one publication to a peer-reviewed journal, and will present one national poster to the American Pharmacists Association annual meeting. Additionally, the resident will participate in the internal publication and social media efforts of the residency program and have multiple opportunities to offer ACPE accredited continuing education.
Rotation Site
FMS Pharmacy is an innovative community practice site located in Bessemer, Ala focusing on an array of clinical patient care services. The company owns three retail pharmacy locations in the metro Birmingham area. The resident will spend a majority of their time learning and cultivating clinical services in the Bessemer location.
Preceptors and Program Director
Patrick Devereux, PharmD
- Vice President, FMS Pharmacy, Inc
- Learning Experiences Taught and Evaluate
- Community Pharmacy Practice
- Community Pharmacy Management
- Ownership
- Staffing
Lindsey Elmore, BS, PharmD, BCPS
- Residency Program Director and Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
- Learning Experiences Taught and Evaluated
- Teaching
- Research
- Manuscript
- Drug Information
- Residency Program Direction
Benefits
- 9 personal vacation days, 9 administrative leave days
- Paid travel and lodging to APhA Annual Meeting and SERC
- Potential travel to NCPA Annual Convention and ASHP Midyear
- Competitive compensation
- Liability protection
- Access to full medical, dental and vision insurance
Application
- Available via PhorCAS, (mid-November) due Jan. 4th, 2013
- Required materials include
- Completed PhorCAS application
- Letter of Intent
- Curriculum vitae
- Pharmacy school transcript
- 3 Letters of recommendation (1 from a community pharmacist)
Further information
For more information, contact us, find us on the web, or like us on Facebook!
Lindsey Elmore, PharmD
lelmore@samford.edu.
205-726-4431
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