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Group Health Cooperative offers an ASHP/AMCP accredited one-year residency in managed care pharmacy practice. The training sites for the residents include pharmacy administration, primary care, and specialty care.
The residents are trained in the role of the pharmacist in the development and implementation of medication use management initiatives, formulary development and management, as well as drug use policy development. In addition, residents are trained to function as leaders in implementing pharmaceutical care plans for patients in a managed care setting.
Group Health provides training opportunities in a variety of practice settings and provides an opportunity to gain valuable clinical and administrative experience in a managed care setting. Clinical experiences include ambulatory rotations, such as family medicine, internal medicine, oncology, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, anticoagulation, nephrology, pain management, and home infusion. Administrative training is designed to provide experience in pharmacy administration policies and procedures.
About Group Health Cooperative
Opened in 1947, Group Health is a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system that coordinates care and coverage. Based in Seattle, Group Health and Group Health Options, Inc., serve nearly 540,000 members in Washington and Idaho. Patient care is provided at 25 primary care centers. Group Health is known for its innovative and progressive style of practice, particularly in the area of evidence-based medicine, pharmacy, and disease state management.
Goals and Objectives
The residency is structured to ensure the achievement of certain goals. The goals specify those areas in which the resident's competence must be developed and serve as the principal guidelines by which the year is structured.
| Goals include: |
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Pharmacy practice foundation skills |
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Direct patient care |
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Drug information |
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Population-based pharmaceutical care |
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Business administration and management activities |
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Practice management |
Resident Projects
The resident is required to complete an official residency project, which may be in the form of original research, a problem-solving exercise, or development or enhancement of some aspect of Group Health's pharmacy services. The resident is expected to make formal presentations of his/her project.
| Presentation opportunities include: |
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Western States Conference for Pharmacy Residents, Fellows and Preceptors (Pacific Grove, Calif.) |
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Seattle Area Society of Health Systems Pharmacists |
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Group Health Pharmacy Administration |
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Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee |
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