Geisinger Clinic Northeast (Scranton, Pa.) Pharmacy Residency
Gain valuable experience with patients while exploring specialties with a Geisinger Pharmacy Residency at our Northeast Clinic.
About us
The Geisinger Clinic Northeast Pharmacy Residency offers customized pharmacy residency training to prepare clinical pharmacists to care for patients in an ambulatory care setting and beyond. As a resident, you’ll innovate, lead and improve the quality of care for Geisinger patients. You’ll be immersed in a collaborative culture where clinical pharmacists practice in acute care, ambulatory care, specialty pharmacy and research. Your curriculum is customized to make sure you achieve your personal and professional goals.
Our program builds on your Doctor of Pharmacy education to help you develop into a clinical pharmacist by:
- Becoming responsible for the medication-related care of patients with a range of conditions
- Gaining eligibility for board certification
- Becoming eligible for postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) pharmacy residency training
Goals:
- Provide training and experience needed to deliver comprehensive pharmaceutical services to patients in the outpatient setting
- Develop leadership skills needed to cultivate a clinical practice in an ambulatory care setting
- Promote the profession through patient care, education and student precepting
- Foster professionals who educate patients and healthcare professionals
- Develop practitioners who can create and provide appropriate, cost-effective drug therapies
- Deliver opportunities and experience required for PGY2 residency training and board certification
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Program overview
The Geisinger Ambulatory Clinic Pharmacy Program has more than 90 pharmacists managing patients’ medications for over 20 conditions. Pharmacists are incorporated into primary care, specialty medicine, pain and behavioral health, and senior-focused care practice models.
Primary care pharmacists are embedded in family practice and internal medicine sites across Geisinger. They practice ongoing management and ownership of chronic disease patients in primary care settings and help improve medication-related outcomes. They also help primary care providers reduce healthcare costs and meet quality benchmarks.
Under collaborative practice agreements with providers, our pharmacists perform comprehensive medication reviews and medication reconciliation, identify and resolve medication-related problems and manage chronic diseases by evaluating the safety and effectiveness of medication regimens (including titration and monitoring toward targeted outcomes). They also design patient-centered, cost-effective medication regimens, optimize polypharmacy and educate patients and providers.
Pharmacy students from regional schools rotate through our hospitals and clinics as part of their advanced rotations.
The Geisinger Clinic Northeast PGY1 residency is customized to help each resident develop into a skilled practitioner with a primary focus in ambulatory care. Residents are expected to provide safe, effective, cost-effective drug therapy for all patients. They work with all care team members in a collaborative practice-based model. Chronic diseases are managed using face-to-face, telehealth and phone visits. You’ll be encouraged to innovate, lead and improve care while using integrated and routine communication with healthcare professionals and patients.
- Anticoagulation
- Primary care
- Disease states include anticoagulation, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, migraine, asthma, COPD, smoking cessation and HIV PrEP
- Telepharmacy (Centralized Clinical Pharmacy Services)
- Internal medicine
- Advanced primary care
- Primary care
- Drug information and healthcare education
- Staffing (outpatient pharmacy and telepharmacy)
- Pharmacy administration and medication safety
- Research/quality improvement project
- Self-assessment and personal performance improvement
- Teaching certificate program affiliated with Wilkes University Nesbitt School of Pharmacy
- Hematology/oncology
- Neurology
- Hepatology
- Pain management and behavioral health
- Dermatology
- Cardiology
- Geriatrics
- Possession of a valid pharmacist license from the Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy within one hundred twenty (120) days of the resident hire date.
- Completion of all R1 goals/objectives with a status of Achieved for Residency by the end of the residency. Completion of 100% of the remaining goals/objectives for the program with at least 75% of the objectives having a status of Achieved for Residency. All objectives must have a minimum status of satisfactory progress. All evaluations must be completed in accordance with ASHP Accreditation Standard as outlined in the Resident Agreement.
- Completion of Outpatient Anticoagulation Certification by the end of the anticoagulation rotation.
- Completion and passing of MTDM Certification Exams by Jan. 1.
- Completion of major research project, which includes meeting all project deadlines and submission of a written manuscript of a completed Quality Improvement project to the Residency Advisory Committee (RAC).
- Completion of assigned projects (MUE, drug review OR class review, management project, outpatient pharmacy project).
- Presentation of at least 1 major CME program.
- Poster presentation at ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and platform presentation at Eastern States Conference.
- Completion of minimum staffing requirements as described in residency contact.
- Participation in departmental and health system committee meetings.
- Adherence to the organization’s attendance standards.
Michael Kachmarsky, PharmD, BCACP
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Director
Geisinger Mount Pleasant Clinic
531 Mount Pleasant Drive
Scranton, PA 18503
- American Society of Health System Pharmacists
Registration information for midyear (December) and links to residency profiles - National Matching Service
Registration information for the Match - National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
Information about NAPLEX - Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy
Information about eligibility for licensure in Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association
Information about residency showcase at annual meeting (September) and helpful links for studying for the PA law exam