Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2) Ambulatory Care - Pharmacy Residency Program - James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital - Tampa, Florida
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James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital - Tampa, Florida

 

Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2) Ambulatory Care - Pharmacy Residency Program

Program Director: Joseph J. Fierro, Pharm.D, BCACP

Email: Joseph.Fierro@va.gov

Program Goal: Resident will learn the clinical pharmacist’s role in providing direct patient care to ambulatory patients in general and advanced specialty practice settings.

During the residency training program, the resident will be given the opportunity to:

  1. Participate in the development of drug treatment plans and drug therapy monitoring through a variety of clinics and direct patient contact.
  2. Participate in expanded roles of various ambulatory pharmacy practitioners progressing from general clinical practice and progressing toward more advanced independent mid-level provider.
  3. Participate in either clinical or administrative research by developing protocols, collecting and analyzing data and preparing the results for publication.
  4. Develop teaching skills by presenting formal lecture, patient consultations and serving as a preceptor for pharmacy students and interns.
  5. Gain experience in the administrative aspects of a teaching hospital with a large pharmacy department.

CORE AREAS OF PRACTICE

Primary Care Teams:

  • Provide direct patient care through disease state management consults (hypertension, diabetes, lipids, others)
  • Answer drug information questions
  • Educate patients (MDIs, HBGM, etc.)
  • Telephone triage
Community Based Outpatient Clinics (rural health)
Home Based Primary Care
Specialty Clinics (required): Anticoagulation, anemia, spinal cord injury, resistant hypertension
Practice Management (Administration)
Patient Education Classes
  • Basic Diabetes, Cardiac Rehab, Smoking Cessation, Insulin Pumps, CHF, others

REQUIRED LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Orientation/Outpatient Pharmacy
Primary Care Pharmacy Clinics (3 core blocks)
Community Based Primary Care Practice (1 two-month block)
Home Based Primary Care (2 weeks, then 1 two-month block)
Primary Care in Spinal Cord Injury (block, concurrent with other clinics)
Internal Medicine and Women’s Center (available)
Anticoagulation Clinics (longitudinal throughout the year)
Anemia Clinic (block, concurrent with other clinics)
Resistant Hypertension Clinic (ABPM) (block, concurrent with other clinics)
Practice Management (clinical administration, longitudinal throughout)
Presentations (including two ACPE accredited)
Pharmacy Practice (staffing, as required based on experience)
Research Project

ELECTIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Elective clinics available: rheumatology, gastroenterology, hepatitis and hepatology, infectious diseases, women’s health, pharmacoeconomics, mental health, weight management GMA (group-medical appointment), endocrine/diabetes, arrhythmia, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, pain management, others.

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