Pharmacy Department Orientation
Pharmacy Orientation is a required learning experience designed to orient residents to the general functioning of the pharmacy and the hospital environment.
The resident is initially trained to develop proficiency with the automated dispensing cabinets, narcotic distribution and management, compounding IV admixtures and chemotherapy, extemporaneous oral preparations, and other distributional pharmacy operations. The resident will also develop an understanding of workflow processes in the pharmacy department and become familiar with key hospital policies and protocols.
Once licensed, orientation will focus on becoming competent to enter orders into the computer profile, provide drug information and perform the duties of a department pharmacist.
Pharmacotherapy
Pharmacotherapy is a required learning experience. The resident will round with the Medicine Teaching Service (MTS) teams on a general medicine floor (GMF) and/or Telemetry. MTS teams include an attending physician, medical residents and medical interns, occasionally a medical student, and other disciplines involved in direct patient care.
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Antimicrobial Stewardship is a required learning experience. The resident will participate in antimicrobial stewardship activities, primarily including monitoring use and evaluating appropriateness of broad spectrum antimicrobials, antimicrobial dosing and pharmacokinetic modeling.
Critical Care
Critical Care is a required learning experience. The resident will round with the critical care teaching team in the Trauma Medical ICU. The team includes the intensivists and medical residents. Other disciplines on the team include the clinical pharmacy specialist, respiratory therapist, case management, social worker, charge nurse, and the primary nurse caring for the patient.
Pharmacy Informatics
Pharmacy Informatics is a required learning experience. This rotation is designed to develop the resident's ability to manage technology related to pharmacy practice, such as Pharmacist Order Entry, Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), electronic medical record (EMR), barcoding, automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs), carousel dispensing technology, and smart IV pump technology. The goal of this rotation is to provide the resident with the building blocks to be able to successfully work alongside a multidisciplinary team to design and maintain Pharmacy Informatics systems with safe medication practices in mind.
Pharmacy Leadership and Administration
Pharmacy Leadership and Administration is a required learning experience that allows the resident to work closely with the director and manager of pharmacy to perform administrative duties, develop and exercise leadership characteristics, practice management skills, improve the medication use process, and develop a plan for improvement in pharmacy services.
Emergency Medicine Shock/Trauma
Emergency Medicine Shock/Trauma is a required learning experience in which residents will work alongside unit based pharmacists to facilitate provision of medications to patients in the Emergency Department. Services provided are acute patient care pharmaceutical services, medication histories, order evaluation, patient counseling, and response to acute care emergencies.
Intermediate Care
Intermediate Care is a require learning experience in which residents round in the Intermediate Care unit at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell with the interdisciplinary team and decentralized pharmacy specialist to manage patients who require more frequent or closer monitoring than a med/surg or telemetry level can provide. This includes patients who have the potential to upgrade to intensive care or patients being downgraded from intensive care.