General Information

The Department of Pharmacy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital offers an ASHP accredited PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency. This PGY2 residency in ambulatory pharmacy is designed to transition PGY1 residency graduates to specialized practice specific to the needs of ambulatory patients. With this training the resident is expected to secure the agreements necessary for the establishment of a collaborative interdisciplinary ambulatory practice. They will be able to design and implement these services and take full responsibility for their ongoing management and planning, including skills to assess their success via outcomes analyses. Graduates of the residency program are empowered to treat and appropriately triage the most complex chronic and acute illnesses presented by ambulatory patients, including those with multiple disease states and serious complications. This care is delivered from within the context of a long-term health care partnership with the patient that emphasizes health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention.

Program Specifics

This residency provides a unique experience to highly motivated individuals interested in providing the highest level of medication therapy management in collaboration with diverse providers and patient groups. The primary practice sites are pharmacist-run, physician-supervised internal medicine and cardiovascular prevention practices where pharmacists collaborate with physicians and other health care professionals to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Through this PGY2 residency, the resident will develop advanced clinical skills as a primary care pharmacotherapy specialist and enhance teaching, writing, and research skills. The resident will also have the opportunity to plan and implement new clinical pharmacy care services or evaluate and improve existing services. Significant flexibility exists to pursue individual interests and career goals.

The program is structured to provide the resident the opportunity to monitor the safety and efficacy of drug therapy in primary care settings, including medical record review, patient interview, and physical assessment, interpretation of laboratory data, peer consultation and patient education to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The resident will work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, social workers, office staff and other health care professionals to prevent and alleviate medication-related problems and to optimize patient outcomes. Taking a holistic approach to patient care, the specialty resident will develop and refine skills in commonly treated disease states such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, thyroid, anticoagulation, pain, asthma/COPD, smoking cessation, woman's health, hepatitis, obesity and depression. Special emphasis is placed on the continuity of care for adult general medicine patients from inpatient to outpatient services.

The resident participates in patient (eg. DM lecture series) and staff education (eg. HTN conference), presents ACPE accredited formal lectures and case presentations, precepts pharmacy students, and will complete a research project. The resident will also receive training and experience in community pharmacy operations including business planning, distribution and medication therapy management in this setting. The resident's appointment as assistant clinical professor for the University of Maryland , School of Pharmacy will include didactic, experiential and small group opportunities. The resident is encouraged to take an active role in professional societies and will have several opportunities for professional advocacy at the state and national levels.

The resident completes a core of ambulatory pharmacy experiences. In addition to the core primary care rotations, other learning opportunities include internal medicine, HIV, emergency medicine, diabetes and anticoagulation clinics, and home visits.

Benefits

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Application Process

Pre-requisites:  Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited school or college.

Application materials include: letter of intent, current curriculum vitae, three letters of professional recommendations and official college transcripts.

Application deadline: January 6th. The sooner your information is in the better.

Onsite interviews: will occur during the months of January and early February

Start date: July 1

Program Director

Patricia A. Ross Pharm.D., BCPS

Titles: Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Ambulatory Care
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, Shenandoah University
Training: Pharmacy Practice Residency – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Boston, MA
Ambulatory Care Specialty Residency – The Johns Hopkins Hospital; Baltimore, MD
Practice Areas: adult internal medicine and anticoagulation management

Contact Information

Patricia A. Ross Pharm.D., BCPS, Pharm.D., BCPS
Program Director, PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency
Department of Pharmacy
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street , Carnegie 180
Baltimore , MD 21287-6180
Phone: (443) 287-7494
Email: [email protected]