Pharmacy Rotations

This experience is designed to further develop the resident’s knowledge and skills pertaining to infectious disease. The residents will round with the Infectious Disease team and gain exposure to the microbiology lab and infection prevention.

Preceptor: Marsha Crader, PharmD, FASHP

This experience occurs early in the year and will focus on training the resident in the roles and responsibilities of the clinical pharmacist for various inpatient areas. The resident will learn to utilize Vigilanz, a clinical surveillance software, to assist with pharmacokinetic dosing (vancomycin and aminoglycosides), renal dosing, antimicrobial stewardship, anticoagulation monitoring, opioid stewardship, dofetilide monitoring and adverse event reporting.

Preceptor: Jennifer Tate, PharmD, BCIDP

This experience allows the resident to gain exposure to a variety of critical care patients in our new, 46-bed intensive care unit. It focuses on developing the resident’s knowledge and skills related to critical care and allows the resident to work closely with other members of the healthcare team. The resident will attend daily interdisciplinary rounds as well as teaching rounds with the intensivist and medical residents.

Preceptors: Payton Snodgrass, PharmD; Savannah Pratt, PharmD

During this experience, the resident trains alongside an experienced emergency medicine pharmacist in our 39-bed emergency department (ED). The emergency medicine pharmacist actively participates in patient care decisions including resuscitations, transitions of care, medication reconciliation, treatment recommendations and medication dosing and monitoring. This pharmacist is also responsible for final culture follow-up for patients not admitted to the hospital.

Preceptor: Anne Harris, PharmD, BCPS, BCEMP

This experience allows the resident to provide inpatient pharmaceutical care for patients admitted to the St. Bernards Internal Medicine Residents’ Service. The resident will attend sit-down rounds with the team daily and is responsible for providing evidence-based recommendations, relaying drug information, designing and/or modifying patients’ medication regimens, ensuring safe and effective medication usage and assisting with transitions of care.

Preceptors: Prisca Taylor, PharmD, BCPS; Jordan Carmack, PharmD

This experience allows the resident to work closely with the Medication Safety Officer at SBMC. The resident will review reported medication related occurrences, perform occurrence follow-up duties and review occurrence data for possible trends and issues related to the medication use system.

Preceptor: Jeremy Hanner, PharmD, BCPS

This experience is designed to orient the resident to the hospital and residency program and develop the resident’s knowledge and skills related to the centralized pharmacist role. Training will be focused on understanding the workflow of the inpatient pharmacy and completing required initial competencies, which prepare the resident to function as an independent pharmacist.

Preceptors: Andrea Davis, PharmD; Allison Yates, PharmD; Keith Rubottom, PharmD, BCSCP

Residents will begin staffing in the central pharmacy after successful completion of orientation. Staffing requirements include:

• One evening shift per week
• Every fourth weekend – Saturday and Sunday (varied hours and shifts)

• 2 holidays (major: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day; minor: Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day)

• As assigned based on departmental needs

Preceptors: Allison Yates, PharmD; Keith Rubottom, PharmD, BCSCP

Residents will gain the skills necessary to become a part of the pharmacy’s nutrition support team. This team assists in providing optimal nutrition for adult patients in need of parenteral nutrition (PN). The resident will be involved in dosing and monitoring PN in accordance with hospital policies.

Preceptor: Marcy Fielder, PharmD; Jordan Carmack, PharmD; Allison Yates, PharmD

This experience will expose the resident to the various roles and responsibilities of the pharmacy leadership team. Residents will complete a medication-use evaluation (MUE) as well as prepare a drug monograph, drug class review, treatment guideline, and/or protocol as assigned. Residents will meet with pharmacy leadership once or twice monthly and as needed for rotation activities.

Preceptors: James Welborn, PharmD; Melanie Burnett, PharmD, MBA; Andrea Davis, PharmD

Residents will be responsible for completing one major project during the residency year. The project may address quality improvement, a practice problem, or a research question. The resident will complete training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program prior to project submission to the St. Bernards Institutional Review Board (IRB). The project will be presented at the Midsouth Pharmacy Residents Conference and preparation a manuscript suitable for publication will be required. Additionally, the resident will have the opportunity to complete the UAMS College of Pharmacy’s Research Certificate Program. Participation in the certificate is not required. Residents will also complete a medication-use evaluation (MUE) as well as prepare a drug monograph, drug class review, treatment guideline, and/or protocol as assigned.

Preceptors: Andrea Davis, PharmD; Prisca Taylor, PharmD, BCPS

Residents will be required to participate in the UAMS College of Pharmacy’s Teaching Certificate Program. The program’s goal is to promote and support the ongoing development of participants’ teaching and assessment skills, helping them serve as effective educators to learners of all types, including students, professional colleagues and patients/families. Activities in the program are meant to be individualized according to the participant’s identified areas of need related to teaching-specific professional development.

Preceptor: Andrea Davis, PharmD

Teaching Mentor: Marsha Crader, PharmD, FASHP

At the beginning of the year, each resident will work with the Residency Program Director (RPD) or designee to develop their initial development plans for the year. This will customize the training program for the resident based upon the resident’s entering knowledge, skills, attitudes, abilities, and interests. Residents will be evaluated on their progress on each rotation by their assigned preceptors, with their personalized development plan being revisited quarterly. Quarterly Developments Plans are completed using a standard template. This includes tracking of the requirements of completion of the program as well as revisiting the residents’ strengths, areas of improvement, personal goals, and how the program may change to better address resident needs.

Preceptors: Andrea Davis, PharmD; Prisca Taylor, PharmD, BCPS

This experience will allow the resident to attend and make interventions during interdisciplinary rounds for the Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House (meets every other Thursday).

Preceptor: Hilary Dowd, PharmD

This experience builds on knowledge gained during the Infectious Disease experience. Projects will vary from year to year based on departmental needs related to inpatient and/or outpatient stewardship efforts.

Preceptor: Marsha Crader, PharmD, FASHP

This experience will take place at the UAMS Northeast Family Medicine Clinic, which is across the street from the medical center. Residents will learn to care for patients as part of an interprofessional team consisting of over 30 family medicine physicians and residents, nursing staff, case managers, and a licensed counselor. 

Preceptor: Cherish Dunigan, PharmD

This experience takes place on our inpatient pediatric floor and 19-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Our NICU team is able to safely provide continuous care to critically-ill term and preterm infants delivered 12–13 weeks early for as long as needed. The pediatric clinical pharmacist is responsible for rounding with two services daily: the neonatologist service and the pediatric hospitalist service. Residents will focus on learning the clinical pharmacist’s roles and responsibilities related to managing these patients.

Preceptors: Marcy Fielder, PharmD; Jordan Carmack, PharmD; Allison Yates, PharmD

This experience takes place at the outpatient oncology clinic and infusion center. The resident will gain experience in oral chemotherapy counseling, responsibilities of the infusion center pharmacist, and management of oncology patients admitted to SBMC.

Preceptor: Jade Lawson, PharmD

This experience will allow the resident to work closely with our informatics pharmacist. Projects will vary based on the needs of the department but may encompass the various technologies used within the hospital (e.g., Meditech, Omnicell, IV smart pumps, Vigilanz).

Preceptor: Andrew Hodge, PharmD

This experience allows the resident to learn and perform the roles and responsibilities of the clinical pharmacist at St. Bernards Behavioral Health.

Preceptor: Sarah Collier, PharmD

This experience will allow the resident to participate in the pharmacy’s transitions of care service focusing on patients with the diagnosis of heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Preceptor: Megan Pham, PharmD

These advanced experiences will build on the resident’s previous experiences and allow the resident to function independently as the pharmacist on the service. Preceptors will remain the same as initial experience.