Longitudinal Experiences

College of Pharmacy Administration

This is a 12-month, longitudinal learning experience teaching the resident insight to College of Pharmacy leadership. During this learning experience, residents will discuss administrative topics with the School Director of the School of Clinical Sciences. The resident will meet monthly with the Director (and Associate Director as warranted) to discuss their plans for administrative duties.  

This learning experience also involves participation on the College's Assessment and Curriculum Committee. The resident will serve on each committee for 6-months. The purpose of assigning these committees is to allow the residents to familiarize themselves with the development, maintenance, and quality control of an accredited professional pharmacy program. The resident is expected to attend all committee meetings and actively participate. Committee chairs may assign tasks or subcommittees for the resident to participate in, with approval from the RPD.

Continuing Education Presentation

The Continuing Education Presentation is a required 5-month learning experience in which the resident will work with a preceptor to present one ACPE accredited CE presentation at ULM Preceptor's Conference and the same presentation at LSHP (if the opportunity is available). This learning experience will prepare the resident to deliver formal educational presentations to a room of colleagues as learners.

Didactic Teaching Opportunities

The first didactic lecture (didactic lecture I) is a required 15-week learning experience, coinciding with the ULM COP Fall Semester. The learning experience will conclude at the end of the 15-week semester. During this learning experience, the resident is required to deliver a lecture to Doctor of Pharmacy students. The preceptor will help the resident create material, prepare to deliver the lecture, write exam questions, and discuss performance/assessment of the questions as needed.

The second didactic lecture (didactic lecture II) is a required 15-week learning experience, coinciding with the ULM COP Spring Semester. Residents must have successfully completed Didactic Lecture I. During this learning experience, the resident is required to deliver a lecture to Doctor of Pharmacy students. The learning experience will conclude at the end of the 15-week semester. This is meant to build on the Didactic Lecture I learning experience. Residents are expected to have more autonomy throughout this experience. The lecture will be delivered individually, with oversight from a preceptor. The preceptor will help the resident create material, prepare to deliver the lecture, write exam questions, and discuss performance/assessment of the questions as needed.

Hospital Management

The Hospital Management Longitudinal learning experience is a required 12-month longitudinal rotation that will provide the resident with pharmacy administration experience and introduce the resident to the core elements of practice and residency leadership. The resident will be provided the opportunity to learn the unique challenges facing hospital pharmacy management teams in this complex health care environment. The resident will work with various pharmacists at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe. Experiences include but are not limited to, P*T committee meetings, pharmacy department meetings, noon conference for Family Medicine Residents, and monthly topic discussions with the Director of Pharmacy.

In New Orleans, the resident will complete two required rotations, Hospital Management I and II.

Hospital Management I is a required 6-month learning experience. This is a two-part required rotation that will provide the resident with experiences in pharmacy administration at both an organizational and facility level.

The goal of this rotation is to create a learning environment that mirrors the pharmacy administrative functions performed in relationship to projects and situations that have long development cycles.

Hospital management II is a required 6-month learning experience. Hospital management I must be completed before taking hospital management II. This is the second in the two-part required rotation designed to provide the resident with experiences in pharmacy administration at both an organizational and facility level. The administrative environment involves decision making and process development that evolves over the span of a year, thus making the extended nature of this learning experience ideal for resident learning.

The resident is also required to complete a departmental policy, guideline or protocol. This is a requirement for successful completion of the program in which the resident is expected to contribute to departmental improvement and leadership at UMCNO.

Medication Use Evaluation

This is a 6-month required learning experience designed to teach the resident how to create, prepare, collect data and evaluate the medication use process through a medication use evaluation (mue). The purpose of this learning experience is to equip residents with the skills necessary to participate in and create a mue after graduation from the program. A medication use evaluation (MUE) is a performance improvement method that focuses on evaluating and improving medication-use processes with the goal of improving patient outcomes. An MUE may be applied to a medication or therapeutic class, disease state or condition, or a medication-use process.  Various types of MUE's include prospective, concurrent, and retrospective.  Residents will be required to perform at least one MUE. 

Research Project

The PGY1 Research Project is a required 12-month longitudinal experience in which the resident will work to complete one major research project during the residency year. This longitudinal experience will include IRB approval, study design with a literature review, study conduction, data collection and analysis and presentation of results. The resident will work closely with a research project mentor to produce a meaningful research project that can be completed within the span of the residency year and is viable for publication.

The completed project must be presented at a regional residency conference in the spring. Additional assignments, such as a poster presentation as a national conference may also be assigned by the research mentor. In addition, a manuscript of the completed project must be submitted prior to completion of the residency year and to receive a Certificate of Completion. Failure to complete any requirements defined in the learning experience will result in failure of the learning experience.

Staffing

In Monroe, the resident is required to staff 200 hours for successful completion of the program. This is approximately one weekend per month. The Staffing learning experience is a 12-month required longitudinal learning experience in which the resident will support the operations of the central pharmacy at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport-Monroe Campus. This is a required staffing learning experience. This staffing experience provides the resident with an increased amount of direct instruction and modeling. Residents will benefit from developing their order verification skills, product verification skills, managing front-line product inventory, and overseeing technician workflow

In New Orleans, the resident is required to staff 200 hours for successful completion of the program. This is approximately one weekend per month.

The Staffing I learning experience is a 6-month required learning experience in which the resident will support the operations of the central pharmacy at UMCNO. This is the first of two required staffing learning experiences. This staffing experience provides the resident with an increased amount of direct instruction and modeling. Residents will benefit from developing their order verification skills, product verification skills, managing front-line product inventory, and overseeing technician workflow. This is a required, longitudinal rotation.

The Staffing II This is a 6-month learning experience in which the resident will continue to support the operations of the central pharmacy at UMCNO. This is the second two required staffing learning experiences. The resident must successfully complete Staffing I prior to beginning Staffing II. Throughout the Staffing II learning experience, the resident will receive an increased amount of autonomy compared to Staffing I.

Teaching and Research Certificate Program

The completion of the required, longitudinal, 12-month, Teaching and Research Certificate Program (TCRP) will prepare pharmacists to engage and educate students in both the didactic and experiential setting. Pharmacy residents completing the certificate program will also understand how to prepare, conduct a research project, and evaluate pharmacy literature. The course focuses on teaching and research methods used in all settings including classroom instruction techniques, experiential learning precepting, feedback and project design. The goal of this program is to prepare pharmacists for their role in educating both students and professional learners regardless of their chosen practice setting in addition to conducting and evaluating research in the clinical setting.