Learning Experiences
Required Learning Experiences
- Orientation (6 weeks)
- Management and Leadership (Longitudinal)
- Transitions of Care (Longitudinal)
- Discharge Prescription Program Management (Longitudinal)
- Community Wellness and Education (Longitudinal)
- Shenandoah Valley Compassionate Care Pharmacy (Longitudinal)
- Staffing (Longitudinal)
- Project Management (Longitudinal)
- Ambulatory Care (Longitudinal)
- Pharmacy Management and Leadership (Longitudinal)
- Teaching and Learning Curriculum Program
Elective Learning Experiences (5 weeks)
- Ambulatory Care – additional rotation sites offered
- Academia
- Emergency Department Medication Reconciliation
Practice Experiences
- Longitudinal pharmacy-run discharge prescription program
- Education of pharmacy students and healthcare professionals
- Community and wellness extended rotation
- Medication and chronic disease education and counseling
- Immunization program
- Comprehensive pharmacy care including transition of care
- Community pharmacy staffing
- Drug information
Additional Learning Experiences
- Disease state management
- Medication Utilization Evaluations
- Medication therapy management
- Reimbursement and practice leadership
- Participation in departmental and committee meetings
- Active in providing community service
Teaching Opportunities
The resident will participate in experiential teaching (APPE and IPPE) within the practice site. A teaching and learning curriculum program that includes didactic, small group discussion and experiential teaching is available through Shenandoah University School of Pharmacy.
Past Resident Research Projects
2015-2016
Susan Cooper, PharmD - The effectiveness of self-initiated antibiotics
and steroids on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease readmissions.
Preceptor: Jeffery Spray, PharmD, Marcia Brackbill, PharmD
2016-2017
Natalie Winters, PharmD - Impact of telephone follow-ups by a pharmacist
at 30 days and 90 days post-discharge on smoking cessation.
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD
2017-2018
Nichelle Logan, PharmD - Determining the effect of an outpatient community
pharmacy’s discharge prescription program on readmission rates in
heart failure patients.
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD
2018-2019
Ryan Turner, PharmD – Impact of community pharmacists on probiotic
supplementation in immediate post-discharge patients and its effects on
the incidence of Clostridioides difficile infections.
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD, Larissa Coyle, PharmD, Elizabeth Walters, PharmD
Emily Yeager, PharmD - Effect of an interdisciplinary COPD treatment team
on patient understanding of medications after hospital discharge.
Preceptor: Lori DeHaven, PharmD, Marcia Brackbill, PharmD
2019-2020
Elizabeth Gibson, PharmD –Evaluation of appropriate prescribing of oral anti-Xa inhibitors in transitions of care filled at an outpatient pharmacy after discharge from a 455 bed community hospital.
Preceptor: Lori DeHaven, PharmD, Marcia Brackbill, PharmD
2020-2021
Carrie Barber, PharmD – Impact of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation upon hospital discharge
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD
2021-2022
Crystal Utter, PharmD – Identifying patient barriers to declining naloxone prescriptions in the community pharmacy setting
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD, Carrie Barber PharmD
2022-2023
Lora-Maria Koytcheva, PharmD – Outpatient antibiotic selection and length of therapy for urinary tract infections
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD, BCPS, Sarah Nordberg, PharmD, BCPS
2023-2024
Ashley Williams, PharmD – Appropriateness of empiric antibiotic therapy for treatment of uncomplicated cystitis at a charitable medical clinic
Preceptor: Jamie Huff, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, Marcia Brackbill, PharmD, BCPS