Pharmacy Resident Walgreens, Kansas City MO
About The Position
The Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program prepares community-based practitioners to develop, provide, and advance patient care services, with a focus on patients with complex specialty disease states. Graduates gain advanced skills in holistic management of complex conditions and experience developing patient-centered services in specialty pharmacy. The program prepares graduates for clinically focused patient-care positions, ambulatory care practice settings, management opportunities, and academia. The residency is conducted across four Walgreens Specialty Pharmacies and one ambulatory care clinic in Kansas City, Missouri. These locations provide innovative clinical pharmacy services for patients receiving complex therapies across conditions including hypertension, diabetes, behavioral health, HIV, hepatitis C, oncology, organ transplant, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. Residents work with pharmacy teams that collaborate with providers, patients, and the community to support optimal drug therapy. The program also provides experience in clinical service delivery, research, management, student precepting, and a teaching certification class.
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 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
- Manage disease states including HIV/AIDS, oncology, transplantation, hepatitis C, and other specialty conditions.
- Provide medication therapy management for an ongoing patient panel of approximately 40 patients.
- Monitor specialty medications and provide follow-up.
- Conduct direct-to-bedside consultations.
- Administer pharmacist-provided immunizations.
- Develop health and wellness programs.
- Participate in community outreach programs.
- Design and conduct a practice-based research project.
- Write a business plan for a new or improved service.
- Develop and conduct a continuous quality improvement project.
- Draft a collaborative practice protocol.
- Present research findings at appropriate regional and national professional meetings.
- Execute a marketing strategy to promote patient care services.
- Provide clinical instruction to student pharmacists.
- Participate in the UMKC Teaching Certificate Program.
Benefits
- Benefits are referenced at jobs.walgreens.com/en/benefits; specific benefits are not listed in the posting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
