Curriculum
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Clinical training
As a PGY-2 ambulatory care pharmacy resident, you devote much of your time to comprehensive training as a member of the interdisciplinary team. A breadth of learning experiences has been designed to increase and refine your clinical competency, provide evidence-based pharmacotherapeutic care plans, and develop your confidence as an independent practitioner.
Direct patient care services allow you to provide patient-specific pharmaceutical care services. Responsibilities include development of individualized care and monitoring plans for various patient populations. After coaching, instruction and modeling by a preceptor, you are assessed and constructively critiqued on how to further refine the delivery of evidence-based recommendations.
You provide drug information to patients, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other allied health professionals. Your preceptors offer feedback to enhance your drug-information retrieval skills using a variety of resources and modalities.
Required learning experiences
The PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Ambulatory Care at Mayo Clinic Health System — Mankato is designed to provide a diverse experience for the future ambulatory care clinician. Required learning experiences include:
| Area | Length |
|---|---|
| Orientation | 2 months |
| Ambulatory patient care I | 4 months |
| Ambulatory patient care II | 6 months |
| Well-being and resilience | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 6 hours per month*) |
| Research and quality improvement | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 16 hour per month*) |
| Teaching, learning, and precepting | Longitudinal, 12 months (Average 10 hours per weeks*) |
*This is an average and there may be more or fewer hours at different timeframes throughout the residency year.
Elective learning experiences
Electives are available in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings that allow you to tailor the program to your needs and interests.
Medication use evaluation and quality improvement training
All residents are required to complete a medication use evaluation (MUE) and accompanying quality improvement (QI) project during the residency year. The goal of the MUE-QI project is to develop a systematic process designed to determine, improve and maintain the appropriate and effective use of medications. Residents are afforded a mentor and are required to complete QI education and training through the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy.
Curriculum enhancements
The Department of Pharmacy and Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences are committed to developing and maintaining the best education programs. The curriculum and other aspects of this program are assessed constantly and changed as necessary to ensure the highest quality training.