PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program Purpose:  To build upon the Doctor of Pharmacy education and outcomes to develop community-based pharmacist practitioners with diverse patient care, leadership, and education skills who are eligible to pursue advanced training opportunities including postgraduate year two (PGY2)residencies and professional certifications.

The mission of the Walgreens-Northeastern University (NEU) residency program is to develop well-rounded, confident, and innovative community pharmacy practitioners who will advance the profession by providing superior patient care in a financially sustainable manner. The residency program is ASHP and APhA accredited post-graduate educational and training experience designed to develop pharmacists with expertise in community-based practice. The program prepare residents to be employed as a specialty staff pharmacist and leadership roles. The program also prepare resident to successfully match at the PGY2 program and to successfully challenge the BCPS examination at the conclusion of the program.

Majority of the resident’s time will be spent at the Walgreens Community-Based Specialty Pharmacy located in the heart of the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. The resident will:

• Participate in unique and innovative models of practice that continue to push healthcare forward.
• Focus strongly on inter-professional collaboration and professional leadership.
• Engage in transitions of care and disease state management with in HIV, Hepatitis C, Oncology, Mental Health, Solid Organ Transplants, Diabetes and Epilepsy.

Residency Activities

Patient care services:

• Collaborate with the hospital staff to assist in reducing expenses associated with readmissions
• Provide medication management and counseling services
• Improve patient adherence to medication therapy and improve health outcomes
• Working in a team-based practice model to help treat patients with Opioid Use Disorder
• Support patients with chronic conditions that require utilizing limited distribution drugs
• Provide additional health and wellness services including but not limited to MTM, immunizations, and blood pressure screenings

Academic Pursuits:

• Facilitate and lead learning activities for student pharmacists in campus-based classrooms and laboratories
• Serve as preceptor for IPPE, Co-Op, and APPE students
• Design and lead a pharmacy-based patient care research project
• Complete residency teaching certificate program
• Participate in student and professional organizations

Leadership Opportunities:

• Develop skills to become an efficient clinical staff pharmacist, pharmacy manager and store manager
• Understand the complex organizational structure
• Master basic leadership skills including but not limited to problem solving, action planning, delegation, accountability, and communication with team members
• Collaborate with regional leadership on strategic planning to meet the mission and vision of the organization

Candidate Requirements

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree from a college or school of pharmacy accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
• Complete the online resident position application at https://jobs.walgreens.com
• Submission of residency application materials to Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS)
• Completed application
• Curriculum Vitae
• Three professional letters of recommendation
• A letter of intent explaining why you are pursuing a community pharmacy residency and what you hope to gain from the residency program
• Official university transcripts
• On-site interview (upon invitation)
• Registered with the National Matching Service (NMS)

Completed application and all accompanying materials must be received no later than January 7th in the year in which admission is sought.

 Contact Information

Specific information about this residency position can be directed to Karen Poliskey, PharmD, Residency Program Director, via email at karen.poliskey@walgreens.com