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Learning Experiences

Required

  • Administration
  • Ambulatory Care Medication Management
  • Oncology
  • Orientation
  • Patient Care
  • Project Focus
  • Staffing
  • Transplant

Electives

  • Fertility 
  • Hepatitis C
  • Informatics

Additional Responsibilities

Additional activities throughout the program year contribute toward resident development, including the following required and optional activities:

  • Research Project
    • Background preparation, IRB submission, data collection and analysis
    • Presentation at Southwestern States Residency Conference and/or a Banner Health sponsored conference
    • Completion of manuscript
  • Business Plan
    • Proactive risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis, marketing materials
    • Business proposal manuscript
  • Quality improvement project (QIP)
    • Baseline measurements, data collection results
  • Co-precepting APPE student rotations and paid pharmacy interns, as applicable
  • Serving as the pharmacy representative on a facility or system committee, as assigned
  • Drug information
  • Journal club
  • Teaching certificate program (optional)
  • ACPE-accredited CE seminar presentation

Service Commitment

  • Twenty total eight hour weekend shifts at Banner Family Pharmacy - Banner University Medical Center Phoenix
  • Saturday and/or Sunday shifts are chosen by the resident
  • Four one-week on-call phone shifts
    • Calls made by patients after hours are first triaged by the Banner Member Experience Center registered nurse and only transferred to the on-call pharmacist line if the matter concerns a specialty patient and cannot wait until the next business day.
    • Not expected to go onsite