Pharmacy residency pgy1 rotation descriptions | veterans affairs

The CAVHS Primary Care rotation is an ambulatory care concentrated learning experience that provides the PGY1 resident with direct patient care experience in the Patient Aligned Care Team

(PACT) Clinic. The PACT Clinic is an outpatient clinic that is comprised of a multidisciplinary healthcare team including physicians, APNs, pharmacists, nurses, dietitians, and social

workers. The PACT Clinic is designed to provide patient-centered care while reducing health risks and improving clinical outcomes in chronic disease states. During this learning experience,

the resident’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to: providing counseling, interpreting and evaluating laboratory values and procedural results, developing therapeutic regimens

and monitoring plans for patients, identifying medication-related problems/errors and devising a plan to assure proper follow up is made, performing medication reconciliation, processing and

editing prescriptions, documenting clinic encounters using SOAP notes, serving as a drug information resource for the team, and reviewing and completing restricted/non- formulary medication

consults.  While this rotation is team-based, it is designed to encourage the resident to work independently. The resident may also be responsible for supervision of a senior pharmacy

student in conjunction with the preceptor.