The St. Louis College of Pharmacy offers a year-long Ambulatory Care Residency Program for post graduate year 2 (PGY2) that prepares pharmacy graduates to practice in diverse ambulatory care settings and become entry level faculty members. The program features required rotations in a variety of primary care and other clinical settings – both public & private – as well as several elective opportunities for other primary care settings, veteran’s administration, and specialty services.  This program prepares residents to serve as an integral team member in the clinics, work closely with clinical pharmacists, medical residents, attending physicians, and nursing staff. The clinics primarily provide services to underserved patients from Missouri and Illinois.  Required clinical rotations include internal medicine and women’s health, including high-risk obstetrics, obstetrics, and gynecology. The residency provides a unique opportunity to become an active team member in a high-risk obstetrics clinic. The resident also has opportunities for elective experiences at other pharmacist-managed ambulatory clinics in the St. Louis area.

Program goals include:

• Establish a collaborative interdisciplinary practice
• Provide efficient, effective, evidence-based, and patient-centered treatment for chronic and acute illnesses
• Demonstrate leadership and practice management skills
• Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention
• Demonstrate excellence in the provision of training or educational activities
• Serve as an authoritative resource on the optimal use of medications
• Demonstrate skills required to function in an academic setting
• Contribute to pharmacy knowledge in ambulatory care

Residents participate in journal clubs, case presentations and seminars.  The program also provides educational in-services to pharmacists, medical residents, and staff physicians. A research or pharmacy practice project is completed during the residency year and the resident receives a faculty appointment at St. Louis College of Pharmacy and completes a teaching certificate program. Teaching opportunities for the residents include classroom presentations, small group case discussions, and clerkship precepting.  The program utilizes lecture and didactic training, along with experiential opportunities, as described above. Longitudinal training is also available for teaching, management, research projects, seminar presentations, and at an Internal Medicine Clinic and the St. Louis University Resource Center Clinic.