PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency

Program description

The PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency consists of 12 months of training with learning experiences in a variety of care settings. Residents will gain diverse experiences in specialty pharmaceutical care and ambulatory care pharmacy practice that allow you to achieve your professional goals. Our program provides multidisciplinary patient-centered experiences caring for diverse disease states. Additionally, this program will engage the resident in the clinical, operational, and business of running a specialty pharmacy. The program is tailored to each resident and cultivates professional development.

Novant Health is transforming healthcare by designing a system that makes it simpler, more convenient and more affordable for patients in our communities. Currently, we have one Specialty Pharmacy located in the Greater Winston-Salem area, Novant Health Specialty Pharmacy- Westgate. In addition, we have two additional Specialty Pharmacies in the Greater Charlotte area, Novant Health Pharmacy- University City Specialty and Novant Health Pharmacy- Elizabeth Specialty. All three of our locations support both oncology and non-oncology medications. Novant Health was the first health-system in North Carolina to achieve accreditation by an independent third-party organization (e.g., URAC) which validates the pharmacy’s commitment to quality management, patient safety and monitoring, and prescriber and consumer communications. Our three locations are currently dually accredited by URAC and ACHC, furthering our commitment to delivery high quality care to our patients.

Each patient serviced through our Specialty Pharmacies receive comprehensive services including: 24-hour access to our pharmacy team members, adherence management, enrollment with patient assistance programs and prior authorization, patient education and medication therapy management by pharmacists.

The structure of the PGY1 program may vary depending on the resident’s interests and preceptor availability. The emphasis of the year will be specialty pharmacy and ambulatory care (outpatient/clinic) learning experiences. Most rotations will be a 5-week block with some exceptions: e.g., staffing/service commitment, research project, and resident forums.  Additional experiences include but not limited to, longitudinal clinic experiences including vaccine support, teaching certificate and elective opportunities. In addition, residents will engage in quality improvement projects, resident forums, and continuing education presentations throughout the year.

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  Preceptors

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  Residents - current class

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  Residents - graduates

Program completion

Upon completion, residents will have gained the following skills:

• An achievement of 85% of all goals marked as achieved for residency
• Completion of service leadership requirement (i.e., operational staffing, longitudinal clinic, and longitudinal MTM)
• Achieve completion and signoff by preceptor for required learning experiences
• Achieve completion and signoff for required presentations including:
  • Topic discussions
  • Seminar
  • Patient, Caregiver, and Members of the Community Presentations
• Resident completed longitudinal project including:
  • Quality Improvement Project
  • Business plan
  • Research project
  • Practice-related project
  • Submission of manuscript
  • Poster presentation
  • Oral presentations

Benefits