PGY1 - Community Based Residency (Geriatric Focused)

As a consultant pharmacist, you'll have the opportunity to manage a diverse patient population, reviewing their charts monthly to help navigate various disease states and foster strong relationships with healthcare providers. Whether your patients reside in long-term care, assisted living settings, or group homes, your role will be to strike a balance between treatment and quality, ensuring optimal health outcomes.

Key aspects of your role include:

• Patient Care: Devote 24 hours per week to delivering patient-focused and facility-centric care as a consultant pharmacist. Through comprehensive customized medication management services, you will eliminate unnecessary medications, optimize formularies, and streamline protocols. Collaborating with patients, caregivers, and the interprofessional healthcare team, including primary care providers, nurses, and administrators, you'll work towards optimizing patient outcomes.
• Pharmacy Management: Spend 12 to 15 hours per week at LifeLine24, a privately owned long-term care pharmacy, where you'll be part of a specialized pharmacy team managing all aspects of pharmacy operations. This role focuses on high-acuity patients/residents and requires expertise in pharmacy management.
• Teaching: As part of your experience, you will be educating a variety of learners that may include: pharmacy students in large lectures, small groups and skills lab modules as well as on APPE rotations; patients and caregivers in individual and group settings and community members in health promotion/education presentations as well as other health care professionals. You will create both presentations and written materials.
• Practice Advancement: Develop leadership and practice advancement skills needed to successfully complete community-based projects. You will complete a variety of preceptor mentored projects during the residency year. This will include the creation, implementation, and evaluation of an institutional review board research project. In addition, based on the practice site, you will be creating and justifying a population health-based service through the business plan process. Additional projects may be assigned but all are tailored to the needs of the practice site. Projects will be presented to a larger audience at national, state, and local meetings.

You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with and receive support from our exceptional team below at 3 Practice Partner Locations:

• Community First Pharmacy, located at 1206 Main Street, Hamilton, Ohio 45013
• Medication Managers, located at PO Box 377, Mason, Ohio 45040
• LifeLine Pharmacy, located at 3699 Symmes Road, Hamilton, Ohio 45015

Site Coordinators:

• Lyndsay Howell, PharmD, Director of Pharmacy for Community First Pharmacy
• Casondra Seibert PharmD, BCGP- Medication Manager
• Andy Mann PharmD- LifeLine24
• Joanne Lankford PharmD- LifeLine 24

Preceptors:

• Rick Hytree PharmD
• Norb Kinross PharmD

Application Requirements:

• Prospective candidates must be graduates of an accredited college of pharmacy or on track to graduate before June 30^th of the application year.
• Be licensed or eligible for licensure in the State of Ohio
• Be able to legally work in the U.S. prior to submitting his/her application to the program
• Complete the application requirements through PhORCAS
• Registered with the National Matching Service (NMS)
• Be eligible to administer immunizations in the State of Ohio

Application Materials:

Residency candidates must include:

• Completed application using the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS)
• Personal statement (e.g. letter of intent) specific to the site you are applying (ie St Vincent de Paul).
• Curriculum Vitae
• Official transcript for professional pharmacy education
• Three references (using the online ASHP standard reference form) from individuals who can attest to your practice skills and abilities.  If currently employed, one letter must come from your internship site.  Preference given to letters of recommendation from Community or Ambulatory Care APPE rotation preceptors. 

Application Process:

Select candidates will be invited for an on-site interview in January or February. The PGY-1 Community Based Pharmacy Practice Residency at the UC James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy in Cincinnati, OH is accredited by the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. This Residency site participates in the ASHP Resident Matching Program and agrees that no person at this site will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.

Application Deadline:

December 31st of the application cycle

As a participant in the Geriatric Focused Community-Based Pharmacy Residency program, you'll enjoy a range of valuable benefits, including:

• Competitive Annual Stipend of $49,000/yr.
• Comprehensive Health Insurance coverage for you, your spouse, and dependents, including Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.
• Contributions in Ohio Public Employee Retirement Systems (OPERS) to secure your financial future.
• Generous Vacation/Sick time to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Tuition Remission for continued professional growth and development.
• Financial assistance to attend professional meetings, enabling you to expand your knowledge and network within the field.
• Access to a Teaching Certificate Program to enhance your teaching skills and contribute to the education of future pharmacists.
• One-year appointment as a Clinical Instructor of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Science, allowing you to gain valuable experience and mentorship in the field.

For more detailed information about these benefits, please click here.

ASHP/APhA Community-Based Residency Program Universal Purpose Statement

PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training.

The University of Cincinnati Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program

Our program prepares residents to fill positions as clinical providers of advanced patient care services in community-based pharmacy settings with a focus on underserved communities. The program will equip the resident to: 1. Provide culturally appropriate direct patient care services 2. Hone skills essential to becoming an integral part of a health care provider team 3. Educate patients/family members, health care providers, health professions and the community 4. Develop leadership, research and health care improvement skills needed to advance community-based practice. 

For further detailed information about our Geriatric-Focused Residency Program, including policies, procedures, and program requirements, please refer to our comprehensive Residency Handbook available below.