Pharmacy Residency Program: Pharmacy Administration
This specialty pharmacy residency offers advanced training in the Health-System Pharmacy Administration at The Johns Hopkins Hospital with extensive administrative course work. The primary objective of the program is to prepare Pharmacists to assume leadership positions in hospitals and integrated health care systems. The two-year residency can be combined with an M.B.A. in Medical Services Management from the Carey Business School of The Johns Hopkins University.
The M.B.A. program was created and structured specifically for medical professionals - physicians, pharmacists, nurses, other clinicians, senior health care administrators, and medical practice managers. Participants will gain the business tools and knowledge to undertand and analyze the changing nature of today's complex medical delivery systems, plus the resources and savvy to anticipate and respond to those changes. Participants completing the combined program will have a higher level of competency in assessing and resolving the health needs of the public as it releates to the safe and appropriate use of medication.
Participants will receive training in the following areas:
- Broad-based academic training in statistics and quantitative reasoning, epidemiology, public health as it relates to biological, social/behavioral, and environmental sciences, and management theory with respect to public health and human services
- Interdisciplinary problem solving and decision making skills
- Organization of integrated health care systems with the pharmacist as an essential component of the health care team
- Leadership and administrative skills necessary to manage pharmaceutical care and needs of patients
- Public health and quality patient care by fostering the optimal and responsible use of drugs
- Programs and services that emphasize the health needs of the public with respect to the prevention and treatment of disease
- Knowledge and expertise in managing cost-effective drug utilization through the application of pharmacoeconomic principles
- Strategies in the prevention of medication errors and adverse events
- Knowledge to identify, analyze, and evaluate health care trends and in the development of public policy
- Role of pharmacy in conducting and supporting drug research
- Integration of technology with pharmacy practice in order to provide clinically focused, safe, and efficient patient care
The administrative specialty residency includes all aspects of pharmacy practice in an academic medical center. The residents will gain experience implementing pharmacy management and leadership theories.
Rotations include:
- Leadership and Strategic Planning
- Operations Management
- Operations Leadership
- Purchasing-Contracting/Inventory Control
- Information Systems and Technology
- Investigational Drug Services
- Medication Safety
- Education and Personnel Development
- Drug-Use Policy
- Pharmaceutical Outcomes
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Quality Improvements/Regulatory Affairs
Requirements for acceptance include eligibility for licensure in the state of Maryland and acceptance by the selected graduate degree program.
Additional M.B.A. information can be found at the Johns Hopkins University: Carey Business School.
General Benefits:
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 | Program Director Title: Director of Pharmacy -- The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Contact Information:
Daniel M. Ashby, M.S., FASHP
Director of Pharmacy
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street / Carnegie 180
Baltimore, MD 21287-6180
Phone: 410/955.6249 (direct)
Phone: 410/955.6874 (Administrative Assistant)
Pager: 410/283.6015
e-mail: dashby @jhmi.edu
