Pharmacy Residency Program: Pharmacy Informatics

Note:  This position has been filled for the 2012 - 2013 residency year.

Program Type: Two year residency (PGY1 and PGY2); pending ASHP accreditation
ASHP Match Number: 153720

Purpose: This two year residency training program in Pharmacy Informatics is defined as an organized, directed postgraduate program of practical experience in pharmacy clinical practice and informatics. The residency is designed to develop expert skills and competencies in pharmacy practice and informatics.

Program Overview: Primary objective of the program is to prepare pharmacists to assume informatics positions in health care related informatics fields. The PGY 1 year will be structured as a Pharmacy Practice residency with focus in pharmacy informatics and the PGY 2 year will be structured as a specialty in pharmacy informatics. Participants will gain the tools and knowledge to understand and analyze the changing nature of today’s complex medical delivery systems, plus the resources and savvy to anticipate and respond to those changes.

Training Experience:

• Opportunity to provide pharmaceutical care to patients in multiple settings and develop independent learning skills
• Provide effective drug education to others, understand research methods and opportunities, and recognize the principles and application of drug use control
• Assume personal responsibility for effecting change in clinical practice
• Interdisciplinary problem solving and decision making skills
• Knowledge and expertise in managing cost-effective utilization of technology and clinical applications through the application of economic principles
• Strategies in the prevention of medication errors and adverse events
• Knowledge to identify, analyze, and evaluate technology trends
• Application of technology and clinical informatics
• Role of pharmacy in conducting and supporting information technology
• Integration of technology with pharmacy practice in order to provide clinically focused, safe, and efficient patient care
• Integration of information technology across the organization

Rotations:

• Core Rotations:
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Clinical Informatics / Med Use Policy 
  • Clinical Applications
  • Critical Care
  • Drug Information
  • Distribution Technology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Information Systems / Technology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Medication Safety
  • Medication Use Informatics
  • Oncology
  • Project Management
    
• Elective Rotations:
  • AIDS/HIV 
  • Anticoagulation 
  • Cardiac Surgery ICU
  • Cardiac critical care (CCU)
  • Clinical Practice Mgmt/Drug Policy
  • Drug Policy and Outcomes Research 
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Hematologic Malignancies 
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Investigational Drugs/ACTG
  • Medical Intensive Care (MICU)
  • Medical Oncology
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  • Neurosciences Critical Care (NCCU)
  • Organizational
  • Outcomes research
  • Pain Management
  • Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Intensive Care (PICU)
  • Psychiatry
  • Outpatient Pharmacy Clinical Applications
  • Surgical Intensive Care (SICU)
  • Transplantation 

Benefits: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/benefits/index.html

Staffing: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/about/staffing.html

On-Call: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/about/on-call.html

Application Deadline: January 8th
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pharmacy/residents/application/application_form.html

Program Director: Brendan Reichert, M.S., R.Ph.
Title: Assistant Director Med Use Informatics--
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Education: B.S. Pharmacy, The Ohio State University;
Masters in Health-System Pharmacy
Administration, The Ohio State University
Training: 2 year Health Systems Administration Residency
Grant Medical Center-OhioHealth

Brendan Reichert is the Assistant Director- Med Use Informatics and Informatics Residency Program Director at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mr. Reichert has held pharmacy leadership positions at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Mr. Reichert received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2001. He completed his Masters in Health-System Pharmacy Administration from The Ohio State University in conjunction with a practice management residency at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio in 2003.

Prior to coming to The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Mr. Reichert was the Clinical Applications Manager for the OhioHealth healthcare system in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Reichert has also held organizational and board positions within COSHP and OSHP. Mr. Reichert is a preceptor to students from several pharmacy schools throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.



Contact Information:

Brendan Reichert, M.S., R.Ph.
Assistant Director- Med Use Informatics
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street- Carnegie Bldg Room 180
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410.955.7028
Cell: 410.294.6301
Fax: 410.502.6049
E-mail: breiche2@jhmi.edu