The Geisinger Clinic Central PGY1 Pharmacy Residency provides a variety of experiences to develop residents into successful clinical pharmacists in the ambulatory care setting. Primary experiences foster grown in chronic disease state management, while allowing for customization to each resident's professional and personal goals.
The residents with provide patient care through implementation of safe, efficacious, and cost-effective drug therapy for all patients, while developing patient rapport. They will establish their own patient panels and manage patients longitudinally as part of a multidisciplinary practice and utilizing collaborative practice agreements.
In the primary care setting, residents are responsible for Medication Therapy Disease Management (MTDM) of chronic disease states including anticoagulation therapy, diabetes (including insulin pump management), hypertension, dyslipidemia, asthma, heart failure, osteoporosis, COPD, and more. Residents will establish competency in specific disease states to manage patients through in-person and telehealth visits. In addition to patient care activities, the residents will provide drug information to healthcare providers as needed or requested.
Elective rotations allow residents to experience opportunities across various specialties such as gastroenterology, dermatology, cardiology, and more. The integration of pharmacists throughout the organization is a key compontent of the health system and will allow residents to provide exceptional patient care in multiple settings.
The Geisinger Clinic Central PGY1 Pharmacy Residency participates in the ASHP Resident Matching Program as well as the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS). Applicants should submit the following materials via Phorcas:
Letter of intent outlining career objectives
Curriculum vitae
Academic (school of pharmacy) transcripts
Three letters of recommendation
Also required are a PharmD or equivalent degree (from an ACPE-accredited school or college) and to be licensed or eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Geisinger Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy program has more than 90 ambulatory clinical pharmacists managing patients’ medications for over 20 medical conditions. Pharmacists are incorporated into both Geisinger-owned PCMH and ACO sites within four practice models: primary care disease management, specialty medicine disease management, home-based primary care and pharmacy telemanagement. The Medication Therapy Disease Management program was named the recipient of the ASHP Award of Excellence for 2016 and a finalist in Medication Safety for chronic pain management. The primary care pharmacists are embedded within family practice and internal medicine sites across the health system. This practice model is based on a concept of comprehensive, high-value, office-based visits to achieve ongoing management and patient ownership of chronic disease patients at primary care sites. These pharmacists help to improve medication-related patient outcomes and assist primary care providers in decreasing healthcare costs and meeting quality benchmarks. Under collaborative practice agreements with providers, the pharmacists perform comprehensive medication reviews and medication reconciliation, iden...tify and resolve medication-related problems, manage chronic disease states through evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of medication regimens (including titration and monitoring towards targeted patient outcomes), design patient-centered, cost-effective medication regimens, optimize polypharmacy and provide education to patients and providers.
