| The MSDH Public Health Pharmacy seeks to build on the PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program Purpose and further build upon Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and provide the resident with the knowledge and skills to become a competent practitioner in the community and public health practice settings. Graduates of this program will have the clinical competence and skills necessary to manage a community and/or public health practice; counsel, educate, and evaluate patients; manage multiple disease states for telehealth patients; teach students; and provide pharmaceutical care services to various multidisciplinary teams. In addition, graduates will be skilled in applying for, leading, managing, and determining tasks necessary for grant work and public health initiatives. Graduates of the program will be well versed in advocacy and public health policy. Graduates of this program will learn how to pursue initiatives that are focused on improving the health outcomes for the population, ensuring that systems are in place for all Mississippians to have the opportunity to make healthy choices and engaging pharmacists to work in their practice setting at the highest level. Graduates will also have a greater understanding of the value of the pharmacist in public health settings. The educational goals of this program include competence in community and clinical practice, the ability to promote, implement and maintain community wellness, immunization and disease prevention programs, maintain MTM/CMM programs, manage multiple chronic disease states, educate and precept Doctor of Pharmacy students, and develop effective leadership and project management skills. Outcomes, goals and objectives for our PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program are found in the PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Required Competency Areas, Goals and Objectives and include four main competency areas: - patient care (about 70% of time allocated to this area),
- leadership and management (about 10% of time allocated to this area),
- advancement of community-based practice and improving patient care (about 10% of time allocated to this area), and
- teaching, education and dissemination of knowledge (about 10% of time allocated to this area).
All four of these areas ultimately intertwine with one another. The resident is getting patient care, leadership, management, improving patient care and practice, and educating others multiple times throughout each learning experience. |
