Program Overview

PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program

The Johns Hopkins Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program is committed to providing residents with a variety of patient care experiences to enhance their skills to become exemplary community pharmacists providing care for a diverse group of patients. Residents are able to customize a schedule that incorporates their individual areas of interest. The community pharmacies are located within the hospitals and medical office settings, which facilitates integration between care teams through the discharge process and during outpatient clinic visits. Residents participate in Medication Therapy Management and offer medication reviews and medication support services in patients' homes, via pill box clinic, and telephonically. Electives are available in specialty pharmacy and home infusion.

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 2 (PGY2) residencies and professional certifications.

Description

This program emphasizes the development of advanced practical skills needed by community pharmacy practitioners concentrating on enhancing existing clinical services and implementing pharmacy practice programs. The experience is individualized to each resident to develop clinical, analytical, teaching, and leadership skills. Residents will have opportunities to provide patient care services, including medication therapy management, immunizations, and disease state management. The residents will work in a collaborative environment with exposure to diverse clinical specialty areas, including solid organ transplant, infectious disease, geriatrics, and transitions of care. Opportunities to precept students and provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) programs are available. Collaboration with providers in an integrated health system will be emphasized through trans-disciplinary care to improve patient outcomes.

Number of Positions

2

Residency Program Director

Amy Nathanson, PharmD, BCACP, Clinical Programs Manager, Specialty Services, Johns Hopkins Care at Home Pharmacy Services

PGY1 Rotations

Required Rotations:

• Orientation
• Administration Project
• Community Engagement & Education (yearlong)
• Internal Medicine Ambulatory Care (6/12 weeks)
• Leadership (yearlong)
• Medication Therapy Management (MTM) (yearlong)
• Pharmacy Practice (yearlong)
• Resident Project (yearlong)
• Transitions of Care (9 weeks)

Elective Rotations - 20 hours weekly for 9 weeks

Residents choose a total of 4 electives, of which 2 of these must be direct patient care:

• Compounding
• Cystic Fibrosis - Specialty Pharmacy Services (CF)
• Geriatrics
• Home Infusion
• Infectious Disease (HIV/AIDS)
• Informatics
• Adult Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
• Solid Organ Transplantation
• Specialty Pharmacy Services (Clinical)
• Specialty Pharmacy Quality
• For CPAL resident in the first year only: Concentrated Leadership

Example Schedules:

Concentrated rotations are 9 weeks long and scheduled for 20 hours per week

Example 1

Concentrated Rotations (9 weeks each) | Rotation (12 Weeks)
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Orientation
Rotation 1 | Geriatrics |
Rotation 2 | Transitions of Care | Internal Medicine (every other week)
Rotation 3 | Specialty Pharmacy Services (Clinical)
Rotation 4 | Solid Organ Transplantation |
Rotation 5 | OPAT |
Longitudinal Rotations (occur throughout the entire year)
Community Engagement & Education
Leadership
Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
Pharmacy Practice
Resident Project
Administration Project

Example 2

Concentrated Rotations (9 weeks each) | Rotation (12 Weeks)
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Orientation
Rotation 1 | Infectious Disease (HIV/AIDS) | Internal Medicine (every other week)
Rotation 2 | Home Infusion
Rotation 3 | Compounding |
Rotation 4 | Cystic Fibrosis - Specialty Pharmacy Services |
Rotation 5 | Transitions of Care |
Longitudinal Rotations (occur throughout the entire year)
Community Engagement & Education
Leadership
Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
Pharmacy Practice
Resident Project
Administration Project

Resident Project

Each resident will be responsible for completing a yearlong project with the guidance from our preceptors. The project could include aspects from conception, Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission, implementation, data collection and analysis. This project will be presented as a platform at the Eastern States Residency Conference in the spring. Results and progress will also be presented as a poster at an organizational, local, state or national meetings.

Additional Opportunities

• Connectivity to the JHHS PGY1 resident class
• Professional development and social networking
• Collaborations with local schools of pharmacy, including precepting
• Active involvement on a pharmacy service committee
• Customization based on resident needs and interests
• Teaching Certificate (optional)