Learning Experiences

The Family Medicine rotation is a required longitudinal experience at the Saint Louise Family Medicine Center. The clinic is a family practice setting composed of attendings, medical residents, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical assistants, and a social worker. Clinical pharmacy services began in 2015 with expansion to full-time clinical services in 2017. The clinical pharmacy specialist at Saint Louise provides comprehensive medication management (CMM), patient/ caregiver counseling and education, as well as drug information to other members of the healthcare team. This will usually entail the care of 15-20 scheduled clinic patients through a mixture of face-to-face and telehealth modalities. While running clinic, the resident will also be responsible for precepting other residents and students on rotation through layered learning.

Preceptor: Rebecca Hopper, BSPharm, PharmD, BCACP, BCADM, CDE. 

The Internal Medicine rotation is a required month-long experience at Ascension Medical Group Nashville . The clinic is an internal medicine practice setting composed of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical assistants, and a social worker. Clinical pharmacy services began in 2016. The PGY2 Ambulatory Care resident will develop and monitor pharmaceutical care plans to patients with chronic conditions referred by physicians via either face-to-face or telehealth modalities. The resident will assess the need for patient education, teaching and reinforcement of appropriate medical devices and techniques, and initiate, titrate and taper medications. The resident may also be responsible for precepting students on rotation through layered learning.

Preceptor: Claire Brandt, PharmD, BCPS
The Pain Management rotation is an elective experience at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System. The Regional referral Pain Clinic at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System provides specialty pain management services for more than 80,000 veterans enrolled in middle Tennessee. Veterans are referred from their primary care providers (PCP) to provide expert evaluation and treatment options for veteran’s struggling with persistent pain. The resident will participate in two distinct types of clinical care during this learning experience. Our interdisciplinary comprehensive pain clinic is a secondary referral clinic for our most complex cases where veterans are seen jointly by a pain physician, pain pharmacist, and pain psychologist and this clinic sees a few scheduled patients once per week. The pain pharmacotherapy clinic is a high-risk clinic and a secondary referral clinic utilized by our pain providers when veterans require more frequent clinic visits and monitoring. Both clinics will be supported by the resident and provide unique experience in the complex care of high-risk patients. The resident will participate in the care of pain patients in the outpatient clinic along with pharmacists, physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and psychologists specialized in pain management.