Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency
Our residency will prepare you to develop new, sustainable ambulatory care services, become a skilled educator, integrate into a variety of health-care models and contribute to the advancement of the pharmacy profession.
About the Residency
We offer a PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency position, located on our satellite campus at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, with an academic focus in affiliation with Jordan Valley Community Health Center.
Providing a year in the life of a clinical faculty member, this residency immerses you in experiences in clinical practice, teaching, service and scholarship. You will spend several days a week in the clinic, providing direct patient care and other clinical pharmacy services. Additionally, you will spend time at the university with a variety of mentors to learn and develop teaching and scholarship skills.
Ambulatory care residency purpose
PGY2 residency programs are designed to develop accountability; practice patterns; habits; and expert knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities in the respective advanced area of pharmacy practice.
PGY2 residencies build upon the broad-based competencies achieved in a PGY1 residency, deepening the resident’s ability to provide care in the most complex of cases or in the support of care through practice leadership. Therefore, PGY2 residencies provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and transforming both into improved medication therapy for patients.
A resident who completes successfully an accredited PGY2 residency should possess competencies that enable attainment of board certification in the practice area, where board certification for the practice area exists.
Residency program goals
- Develop your abilities in ambulatory care pharmacy and academia.
- Through collaborations with physicians and other health care providers, provide direct patient care and comprehensive medication management as an independent member of the health care team.
- Gain teaching and precepting skills by providing didactic and experiential education to health care professional students.
- Enhance leadership attributes through active practice management.
Residency accreditation
This residency is accredited by the ASHP Commission on Credentialing.
Learn more about becoming a PGY2 resident (PDF)
How to Apply
We seek motivated candidates who are dedicated to advancing pharmacy practice while delivering a high level of direct patient care and education. Selection of residents will be based on their ambulatory care experience, interest in advancing pharmacy practice, interest in academic pharmacy, desire to provide direct patient care and ability to display leadership potential. Residents must be motivated and self-directed individuals.
Requirements
- A Pharm.D. degree from an ACPE-accredited college or school of pharmacy
- Eligible for licensure as a pharmacist in the state of Missouri
- Completed or be enrolled in a PGY1 residency
Application (Due January 10)
Submit a completed application, academic transcript, curriculum vitae, letter of intent and three letters of recommendation using the completed standardized reference found in PHORCAS.
Qualified candidates will be invited for a virtual interview, and selection will take place through the ASHP Residency Match Program.
Contact Information
Lisa M. Cillessen, Pharm.D., BCACP
Residency program director