Pharmacy Resident Walgreens Atlanta, GA
About The Position
The Walgreens PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program in Atlanta, Georgia provides postgraduate training to help residents achieve professional goals, become leaders in the profession, provide compassionate community care, and contribute to Walgreens’ advancement in healthcare. The program is based at the Walgreens health-system pharmacy at Piedmont Hospital-Atlanta, which provides clinical pharmacy services for patients receiving complex therapies, including those for HIV/AIDS, oncology, chronic inflammatory disease, and transplant. Clinical pharmacists at the site work closely with medical staff to optimize drug therapy. Graduates are prepared to lead and advance community pharmacy practice.
Requirements
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree from a college or school of pharmacy accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
- Ability to obtain a pharmacist license in the state of residency within the licensure requirement deadline.
- Submit residency application materials through the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS).
- Participate in and adhere to the rules of the ASHP Resident Matching Program.
- Be a certified immunizer or be willing to become an immunizer within 90 days of hire.
Responsibilities
- Develop skills in Walgreens health-system pharmacy relationships and specialty pharmacy.
- Participate in transitions-of-care and disease-state management programs, including those involving HIV/AIDS, oncology, chronic inflammatory conditions, transplant, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.
- Clinically manage specialty patients, including providing financial assistance, thorough disease-specific counseling, and communicating with providers to support optimal patient management.
- Support patient outcomes through patient counseling, medication therapy management, adherence services, and immunization services.
- Assist with transitions of care by delivering medications at the bedside upon discharge.
- Develop skills to become an efficient clinical staff pharmacist, pharmacy manager, and store manager.
- Meet with regional leadership to learn about management initiatives and issues that may affect implementation of patient-care services in community pharmacy.
- Develop and conduct a practice-based research project and present findings at regional and national professional meetings.
- Design and execute a minor project, such as a collaborative practice or business plan, and quality-improvement projects.
- Instruct and precept IPPE and APPE student pharmacists.
- Complete a Teaching Certificate Program.
- Participate in the Atlanta Area Resident Journal Club.
Benefits
- Benefits are available; details are provided at jobs.walgreens.com/en/benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
