Pharmacy residents completing the UC San Diego Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) Pharmacy Practice Ambulatory Care Residency will be competent in the management of medication therapy for a wide variety of disease states in the ambulatory care and transitional care environment as part of an interdisciplinary team.  These pharmacists will have demonstrated proficiency in communication and in educating other health care professionals, patients, students and the community on drug related topics.  Residents will have opportunities in classroom teaching, facilitating educational conferences and precepting students on rotation from the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Residents will have demonstrated professional maturity by evaluating and monitoring their own performance.  They will be trained in research methodologies and leadership skills and will have completed a Teaching Certificate Program.  Graduates of this program will be prepared for adjunct faculty positions, direct patient care opportunities, and advanced PGY2 programs.

Pharmacy residents completing this program will be proficient in the areas of:

• Providing patient-specific medication management services to promote ethical, compassionate, trusted patient care and positive patient outcomes in all settings (which will be focused on ambulatory and clinic-based patient care)
• Advancing practice and improving patient care; mastering marketable job skills, including organizational and time management skills
• Understanding leadership and management skills, representing personal organizational, prioritization and time management skills
• Teaching, educating, and disseminating knowledge, including effectively educating health care professionals, patients, students, and the community on medication-related topics.

The program offers three (3) residency positions.

Please visit our website for more information: https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/pharmacy/residency/Pages/amcare.aspx