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The University
Hospital,
Health
Alliance
offers
a specialized
residency
in Ambulatory
Care pharmacy.
This ASHP
accredited
residency
focuses on the provision
of pharmaceutical
care to
a diverse
patient
population
in a variety
of different
ambulatory
settings
including:
General
Internal
Medicine
Clinics, private
physician
office settings,
Center for Emergency
Care, Pharmacist-Managed
Anticoagulation
Clinics,
Infectious
Disease
Clinic,
Smoking
Cessation
and Congestive
Heart Failure
Clinics.
Direct
patient
care activities
are combined
with outpatient
drug policy and
development, formulary
management,
and medication
use evaluation,
enabling
the resident
to function
as an integral
part of
the ambulatory
clinic staff.
 Learning objectives for the specialized residency are focused on developing competencies in the pharmacotherapeutic management of common disease states encountered in the ambulatory environment. Concentration is placed on developing skills for disease-state management and education of patients with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, and other chronic disease states associated with high health care resource utilization.
The resident will
be involved
in teaching
activities and preceptorship
of pharmacy
residents,
as well
as Pharm. students.
The specialized
resident will be
exposed to a variety
of outcomes-based
research projects
with the opportunity
to complete a major
project suitable
for publication.
Contact: Kelly
Epplen,
Ambulatory
Care
Specialty
Residency
Director
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