To provide residents with the knowledge and skills necessary to
practice community pharmacy in a decisive and proactive manner, placing
an emphasis on the provision of clinical services.
Optimize patient care
outcomes and provide medication therapy management services to a
diverse patient population in a community pharmacy environment
Utilize marketing
concepts to implement and maintain clinical services
Develop/strengthen
analytical and leadership skills
Precept pharmacy
students during their community pharmacy clerkship
Rotation
Sites
Aurora Pharmacy St. Luke's
Outpatient pharmacy
within Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Wisconsin’s largest private hospital, located on the
south side of Milwaukee
Offers immunization
services; osteoporosis screenings and smoking cessation management;
along with solid organ transplant, diabetes and hypertension education
programs for patients
Service the
community, as well as employees, patients who are discharged from the
hospital, and clinic patients
Uses automation in
the dispensing process
Has strong
relationships with other hospital departments and clinics
AuroraSinaiMedicalCenter
Family Medicine
Residency clinic located within AuroraSinaiMedicalCenter, a teaching hospital in
downtown Milwaukee
Interdisciplinary
team approach to treating patients
Serves a diverse
patient population
Specific
rotation areas
Residents will complete core rotations and elective rotations
customized based on the interest of each individual resident.
Orientation:
Computer systems, drug distribution, personnel, policies, workflow,
department structure
Clinical Services:
Hypertension, diabetes and osteoporosis screenings;
pharmacist-administered immunizations; smoking cessation management;
solid organ transplantation, diabetes and hypertension education
programs; medication therapy management
Practice Management:
Budgeting, personnel management, financial management, development and
implementation of new services
Medication Safety:
Newsletter formation, assessment of medication errors, evaluating
pharmacy processes for best practice
Primary Care Clinic
Site:
Interacting with patients and other health care professionals one day
per week in a family practice clinic
Electives:
Opportunity
to participate in other pharmacist-managed clinics such as
anticoagulation clinic
Professional
Development:
Year-long residency project, rotation projects, in-services, staffing,
visits to other institutions, professional organizations, teaching and
precepting, ACPE continuing education presentations
Candidate
qualifications
Graduate of an ACPE accredited School
of Pharmacy and eligible for
pharmacist licensure in Wisconsin.
Quality
benefits
Each resident is eligible for full-time employee benefits. This
includes medical/dental insurance, 23 days paid time off, and travel
support.
Stipend
We update competitive salaries annually. The current stipend is
$45,760.
Application
information
Candidates should submit a letter of interest, their Curriculum Vitae,
3 letters of recommendation, and pharmacy school transcripts by January
11, 2010. Letters of interest should include which program the applicant
is applying for (i.e. PGY1 Pharmacy Practice – Milwaukee, PGY1 Pharmacy
Practice – Green Bay, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice with Emphasis in Community
Care, PGY2 Health-System Administration or PGY1 and PGY2 Health-System
Administration), the applicant's career goal, what they are looking for in
a residency, and why they are interested in a residency at Aurora Health
Care.Applications may be
submitted by mail or electronically to Sarah Ray at the address below.
Applicants will be contacted for an on-site interview.
Contact
Program Director/Coordinator Sarah Ray, PharmD, BCPS Clinical Coordinator, Ambulatory Care Services Aurora St.
Luke's Medical Center Department of Pharmaceutical Services 2900 W. Oklahoma Ave. Milwaukee, WI53215 Telephone: (414) 649-7926
Fax: (414) 649-5367 E-mail:
sarah.ray@aurora.org
