Objectives, Requirements, & Benefits

Residency Objectives

• Provide quality patient care through collaborative working relationships with other health care providers.
• Participate in the design, recommendation, monitoring, and evaluation of patient-specific treatment regimens.
• Participate in the documentation of pharmacist patient care activities.
• Provide concise, comprehensive, applicable, and timely responses to drug information requests.
• Provide effective education to health care professionals, patients and Doctor of Pharmacy candidates.
• Demonstrate professionalism, leadership skills, responsibility, and ethical conduct during all residency activities.
• Participate in the UNMH/HSC Continuous Quality Improvement through an understanding of the identification and management of adverse medication events, an understanding of drug policy development, and completion of a medication use evaluation.

Residency Requirements

• Required Rotations: Orientation, Internal Medicine, Inpatient Pharmaceutical Care, Critical Care, Pediatrics, and Research
• Longitudinal Rotations: Ambulatory Care Clinic Experience and Pharmacy Administration
• Possible Elective Rotations: Academia, Ambulatory Care, Anticoagulation, Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics, Nephrology, Toxicology
• Completion of a residency project designed to improve clinical pharmacy services and achieve a specific research objective.
• Completion of a medication use evaluation.
• Prepare a manuscript ready for publication.
• Present at the Western States Residency conference.
• Develop general pharmacy skills through 2 shifts/month of work in various pharmacy settings within the UNMH pharmacy department.
• Provide lectures to Doctor of Pharmacy candidates at the UNM College of Pharmacy.
• Candidate Qualifications
• Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college or school or pharmacy.
• Eligible for pharmacist licensure in the State of New Mexico.

Benefits

• Salary: approximately $42,474
• Vacation: 10 days
• Holidays: 9 days
• Professional leave: up to 10 working days
• Health Insurance
• Travel and registration for ASHP Mid-year Clinical Meeting and the Western States Residency Conference