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American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Vol. 66, Issue 13, 1224-1227
Copyright © 2009. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. All rights reserved. 1079-2082/04/0602-1242$06.00

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Practice-based learning experience to develop residents as clinical faculty members

 Erin M. Slazak and Gina M. Zurick

ERIN M. SLAZAK, PHARMD.,. BCPS, is Clinical Assistant Professor; and GINA M. ZURICK, PHARMD., BCPS, is Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

Address correspondence to Dr. Zurick at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, 317 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 (gmzurick{at}buffalo.edu).


Purpose. A practice-based learning experience designed to expose postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) and 2 (PGY2) residents to and prepare them for a career as clinical faculty is described.

Summary. A practice-based learning experience was designed to give PGY1 and PGY2 residents exposure to the responsibilities of a clinical faculty member, integrating clinical practice, preceptor duties, and other academia-related responsibilities. The learning experience is a four-week, elective rotation for PGY1 and PGY2 residents. The rotation is designed to correspond to a four-week advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) rotation, allowing the resident to work continuously with the same one or two APPE students for the entire rotation. The resident is required to design and implement a rotation for the students and provide clinical services while integrating students into daily tasks, facilitating topic and patient discussions, evaluating assignments, providing constructive feedback, and assigning a final rotation grade. The resident also attends all academic and committee meetings and teaching obligations with his or her residency director, if applicable. The resident is mentored by the residency director throughout all phases of the rotation and is evaluated using goals and objectives tailored to this experience.

Conclusion. The development of a formal, structured rotation to give postgraduate residents experience as a preceptor provided an opportunity for residents to further explore their interests in academia and allowed them to serve as a primary preceptor while being guided and evaluated by a mentor.

Index terms: Careers; Curriculum; Education, pharmaceutical; Educators; Pharmacists; Pharmacy; Preceptors

 

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