Residency Overview Optum Specialty Pharmacy Residency Program is committed to developing clinical pharmacists to provide advanced patient care services in a specialty pharmacy environment. The program trains residents to: Provide and manage patient care services in complex, rare specialty disease states Collaborate with other health care providers Perform business functions of specialty pharmacy operations Educate pharmacy students and patients Teach as adjunct faculty for a school of pharmacy The residency is based at Optum Specialty Pharmacy National Distribution Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The specialty pharmacy location offers a variety of patient care services to sup