PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency

Program Statement

The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy offers a comprehensive postgraduate experience for residency training with a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency program. This program seeks to provide the resident with the knowledge and skills to become a competent practicioner in both the community and academic settings. Graduates of this program will have the clinical competence and skills necessary to manage a community pharmacy practice, counsel and evaluate patients, teach students, and provide pharmaceutical care services.

Program Purpose

The University of Mississippi seeks to provide the resident with the knowledge and skills to become a competent practicioner in both the community and academic settings. Graduates of this program will have the clinical competence and skills necessary to manage and/or establish a community pharmacy practice; counsel, educate, and evaluate patients; teach students, and provide pharmaceutical services. The resident will be prepared for an adjunct faculty preceptor position in a community setting or a non-tenure clinical faculty track position within a school of pharmacy.

Program Outcomes

Graduates of this program will learn how to establish their own innovative pharmacy practice; practice in an ambulatory clinic care setting; join the faculty at an accredited school of pharmacy; educate and evaluate patients; and provide drug information services.

Community Based Research Project

In addition, the resident will work in a Family Medicine Clinic on the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Medical Center campus where they will become familiar with the day to day operations of an academic setting. They will also become familiar with working in a Federally Qualified Health Center and a private physician group.