General Medicine
Overview
The General Medicine rotation gives residents an opportunity to provide pharmacist
patient care to medicine patients at Mercy Hospital. The resident will design,
recommend, monitor and evaluate patient-specific therapeutic regimens for selected
patients.
Preceptor
Primary: Mary Foss, Pharm D, Clinical Manager, Residency Director
Contact information
Phone: (763) 236-4135
Fax: (763) 236-4143
E-mail mary.foss@allina.com
Rotation location
Mercy Hospital
Hours
Monday – Friday
(Approximate) 0800-1630
Goals
Goal S1: Take personal responsibility for attaining excellence in one’s own ability to provide pharmaceutical care.
Goal S2: Demonstrate ethical conduct in all job-related activities.
Goal S3: Demonstrate the characteristics of a professional.
Goal S5: Appreciate the need to adapt direct patient care to meet the needs of diversity.
Goal S6: Use an organized system for staying current with pertinent literature.
Goal S7: Communicate clearly when speaking or writing.
Goal S9: Solve practice problems efficiently.
Goal S10: Function effectively as a member of the health care team.
Goal S15: Understand direct patient care delivery systems in multiple practice settings.
Goal S19: Manage time effectively to fulfill practice responsibilities.
Goal P2: Design, recommend, monitor, and evaluate patient-specific therapeutic regimens that incorporate the principles of evidence-based medicine
Goal P3: Provide concise, applicable, comprehensive, and timely responses to requests for drug information from patients, health care providers, and the public.
Goal P4: Document direct patient-care activities appropriately
Goal P5: Provide inservice education to physicians, nurses, and other practitioners.
Goal P8: Prepare and dispense medications following existing standards of practice and the health system's policies and procedures.
Goal M2: Prepare and disseminate written drug information.
Goal M16: Utilize pharmacy technical and clerical personnel effectively.
Goal M18: Provide instruction to pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, and pharmacists.
Daily rotation activities
- Review existing patients
- See new patients (preparation for ICU rounds and Infectious Disease rounds)
- TPN monitoring
- Pharmacokinetics
- Patient discussions with preceptor
- Topic discussions with preceptor
- Other: nursing inservice, drug information for medical and nursing staff,
precepting pharmacy students, special projects (DUE, data collection)
Interaction with health care providers
The resident interacts with physicians, nurses, other pharmacists, students,
and occasionally other healthcare workers.
Meeting attendance
The resident will set up a meeting weekly with the preceptor for 30 minutes.
These meetings will allow time for the preceptor to review rotation activities
from the previous week and provide feedback on performance. The resident will
also set up a meeting on the last day of the rotation to complete the preceptor
and resident evaluations. Additional meetings include:
- Weekly Cardiology Noon Conference
- Weekly Grand Rounds
- Monthly Neuro-Critical Care Case Conference
Potential topics/disease states for discussion
- Diabetes
- Asthma/COPD
- Stroke
- Renal Failure
- DVT/PE
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Patient specific topics
Orientation to the rotation - the preceptor will:
- Provide the resident the goals and objectives for the learning experience
- List the activities the resident will be engaged in during the month to
accomplish the goals and objectives (see step 7 of the RLS process)
- Describe how the preceptor will evaluate the resident (e.g., objective data,
criteria based checklist)
- Provide the resident with self evaluation forms (e.g., rotation evaluation
from, criteria based checklist), and
- Communicate how will the resident evaluate the preceptor
- Establish routine meetings during the month to provide feedback and allow
time for clarifying expectations. Monitor the growth and development of the
resident during this time.
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