Pharmacy Resident University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
About The Position
The residency is academically affiliated with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and is offered at affiliated locations in Chapel Hill and Asheville, North Carolina. The multi-site community residency program provides opportunities to build professional skills, network with leaders in North Carolina community pharmacy, and provide a variety of patient care services. Residents contribute directly to patient outcomes through counseling, immunization services, and medication therapy management, with particular emphasis on patient adherence. They collaborate with area health care providers and develop clinical services for patients receiving complex therapies. Residents explore clinical service development and evaluation through a research project and business plan, and have extensive teaching opportunities. The program prepares residents to become innovative clinical practitioners and leaders who can advance patient care in community-based outpatient settings.
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 by the licensure requirement deadline.
- Submit residency application materials through 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.
Nice To Haves
- Teaching and learning certificate is optional.
Responsibilities
- Provide medication therapy management programs.
- Provide harm reduction services, including naloxone prescribing.
- Provide pharmacist-prescribed tobacco cessation services.
- Provide pharmacist-prescribed hormonal contraception.
- Collaborate with other health care providers.
- Administer adult and travel vaccines.
- Provide disease state management and health coaching for patients at the Asheville site.
- Develop health and wellness programs.
- Provide community outreach and education.
- Provide diabetes self-management education.
- Develop services in collaboration with community partners and health care providers.
- Serve as an attending pharmacist at an interprofessional clinic serving uninsured and underserved patients.
- Teach in small-group and large-classroom settings.
- Serve as a Teaching Assistant for student pharmacists and didactic courses.
- Precept student pharmacist learners.
- Serve as a New Practitioner Mentor for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).
- Complete a research project and business plan focused on development and evaluation of clinical services.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
