PGY-1 Managed Care Pharmacy Residency

Core Rotations

Longitudinal

Patient Assessment
The pharmacy resident will obtain a foundational understanding of the concepts of patient engagement, motivational interviewing and patient / prescriber consultation and a guided experience for honing engagement, interviewing and consultation skills.

The resident will develop an expert level of proficiency in provision of both written drug related consults to prescribers. The resident will also develop a foundational understanding regarding the concepts for scaling prescriber consults and communications such that therapy gaps can be identified across large populations and distributed through large networks of prescribers.

Accreditation/Quality
The pharmacy resident will apply lean principals and participate in accreditation assessment activities, root cause analysis and process redesign of incident types and workflow redesign and optimization.

Residency Project
The pharmacy resident is required to complete a research project, including:

• topic selection and development
• IRB approval
• data collection and analysis
• project presentation at a national meeting (AMCP Annual)
• manuscript development and submission to JMCP.

Modules

Orientation
The pharmacy resident will be involved in company orientation, residency orientation, and pharmacy orientation during this experience. The resident will work within the pharmacy department to develop a baseline comfort level with the roles that pharmacists have. The resident will review and understand residency policies and procedures and company policies and procedures. The resident will be trained on proper usage of PharmAcademic.

Managed Care 101
The pharmacy resident will gain didactic education and application activities within fundamental concepts of managed care through two venues: AMCP’s “The Fundamentals of Managed Care Pharmacy Certificate Program – Professional Version”, and through guided preceptor discussions.

Clinical Program Development
The pharmacy resident will be provided with a framework for clinical program development, along with a shadowing experience followed by direct responsibilities with the clinical team to understand how the program framework is utilized to design, implement, and update clinical programs.

Drug Information
The pharmacy resident will demonstrate skills in retrieving medication and disease information from evidence-based sources, formulating a medication management strategy within the context of an evidence-based consensus guideline, and develop an understanding of mapping clinical text into database format such that it can be queried and used for computerized clinical decision making.

Inappropriate Medication Use – Intervention Development
The pharmacy resident will develop and apply drug class reviews and drug management strategies targeted around inappropriate use of medications based on distinct patient population factors.

Formulary & Benefit Management
The pharmacy resident will develop drug monographs and medication transition proposal strategies for assigned drugs/drug classes to become knowledgeable and proficient in formulary and benefit development and management.

Available Electives

Account Management (longitudinal)

Clarest Health’s Client Success department serves as the liaison between Clarest operations and client contacts. The pharmacy resident will gain exposure to relevant aspects of data analysis and reporting to Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) for the Medication Therapy Management (MTM) program.

Teaching Certification (longitudinal)

Clarest Health has an academic affiliation with D’Youville University School of Pharmacy for completion of the Teaching Certificate program.

Resident Benefits

• Competitive stipend
• Health Insurance
• PTO leave
• Annual leave
• Holidays
• Travel funds and educational leave for professional meeting
• Individual workstation distributed by Clarest
• Personal computer
• Office supplies
• Library access through D’Youville University

Application Instructions

• Letter of intent
• Curriculum Vitae
• Academic Transcripts
• Three (3) Letters of Recommendation

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