Pharmacy Residency Program
Community Care
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Philosophy
The community pharmacy residency programs at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy are designed to embody the overall philosophy of Texas Tech residencies; that being, to engage the resident in active learning and self-assessment, to build upon a foundation of existing knowledge to deliver patient care services; to stress the importance to community pharmacy residency programs of a national standard for training, to engage the resident as part of a team to nurture mentorship, and to stress the importance of the interrelationship of being a well-rounded practitioner and the development of individual career goals.
The TTUHSC Community Pharmacy Residency programs provide the resident(s) with the experience, mentorship, and nurturing that fosters personal growth skills and confidence to develop and deliver community-based patient care services. To effectively deliver these services, the resident demonstrates through an organized program of focused and longitudinal experiences, mastery of competencies in pharmacy operations; provision of education using contemporary teaching methods addressing the needs of the target audiences, development of skills in program evaluation, and systems design and justification of new service programs. Additionally, each resident gains significant experiences in primary care to enable that pharmacist to engage in medication management for chronic diseases in a contemporary community pharmacy practice.
General Description
This is a one-year, post-graduate Pharmacy Practice residency with an emphasis in Community Care. It is offered through Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center as the lead or responsible organization. Collaborative programs with community pharmacies in the various region provide a broad view of community practice. The program is designed to allow the resident opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to provide pharmaceutical care in a community setting. The faculty and current residents are pursuing ASHP accreditation.
The residency includes exposure to community pharmacy practice, disease prevention and health screening, patient consultation, and pharmacist-managed clinics. In addition, the resident will gain experience with third party reimbursement issues and gain a better understanding of the managerial aspects of community pharmacy practice.
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, the resident should be able to:
- Provide direct patient care to a variety of patient populations.
- Become proficient in pharmacy operations.
- Provide education to the community, students, and colleagues.
- Develop new patient care services, and improve established ones.
- Assume the role of practitioner-educator.
For additional information, please refer to the ASHP/APhA Accreditation Standard for PharmacyPractice with emphasis in Community Care
Program Activities
Clinical Experience
Residency programs are currently offered in Amarillo and Lubbock. New programs will soon be offered in Denton. The cornerstone of the community pharmacy practice residency experiences is the integration of community practice skills with primary care. Texas Tech has developed pharmaceutical care centers to serve as the training, practice and research sites for contemporary community pharmacy practice. Although each city has some unique aspects to its program for residency training, there is consistency across all programs with regards to the amount of training in direct patient care that a resident receives. The reader is invited to scroll to the bottom of this webpage and follow the link to the individual residency programs.
At the Pharmaceutical Care Centers, residents will be involved in many areas of direct patient care. Residents can select rotational and longitudinal experiences in primary care areas that enhance the resident's clinical abilities to manage chronic disease or meet the interests of the individual. Opportunities also exist to contract with other community pharmacies to assist in the development and/or delivery of their patient care services.
To meet the national need for faculty in community care, the School of Pharmacy through its Centers offers opportunities for residents to become practitioner-educators through peer-directed instruction in teaching methods and skills-building in the delivery of educational content.
Managerial Experience
The resident will be exposed to all of the financial aspects of running a pharmacy, as well as learn the art of contract negotiation and financial justification of new business models of patient care. All preceptors and the program coordinator have significant business and health systems experience. Residents are expected to lean how to develop direct patient care services in for-profit business settings.
Residents that may have an interest in the management of clinical services in community settings may elect to take rotational experiences with selected community pharmacists that have demonstrated visionary abilities to develop and enhance their operations through direct patient care services.
Teaching Activities
Residents are appointed as Assistant Instructors with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy. Teaching activities for residents are designed to complement practice activities while allowing the resident to experience a variety of teaching methods.
Didactic Teaching
Residents will be offered the opportunity to give several didactic lectures in a number of classes, depending on his or her area(s) of interest and subject availability.
Pharmaceutical Care Laboratory
(currently only in Amarillo)
The resident will also be offered the opportunity to lead several lab discussions on topics such as medication safety, proper medication and equipment use, and others, depending on interest and availability.
Experiential Teaching
Clerkship teaching (involving both P3 and P4 students) is integrated into the resident practice model. Early in the program, the resident will observe faculty clerkship preceptors and become integrated into various aspects of clerkship teaching. At the end of the residency program, residents have the opportunity to independently precept at least two clerkship students.
Residency Project
Residents will complete one patient care project with the intent to present the acquired knowledge at a regional or national residency conference. It is preferred that this project be suitable for publication in manuscript form. Residents may chose any type of research project or quality improvement program, provided that the project:
1) includes generation of original data;
2) is suitable for publication or presentation at a national pharmacy meeting;
3) can reasonably be completed within the residency year.
Additional project information.
Additional Activities
- Provide education to physicians/teams in the form of in-service programs and/or literature reviews
- Provide education to members of the community based on perceived need
- Participate in residency meetings
- Meet with residency preceptor(s) on regular basis to:
(1) help guide in student precepting activities,
(2) share clinical pearls and discuss disease state management, and
(3) to provide feed back on strengths and weakness of clinical/teaching/research abilities - Meet with the program director on a regular basis to provide feedback, discuss training needs or explore new opportunities
Program Leadership
 | Roland Patry, M.S., Dr. P.H., FASHPProfessor of Pharmacy Practice and Associate Dean for Patient Care Services Roland Patry is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and has graduate degrees from the University of Houston and the University of Texas, School of Public Health. He also completed a 2-year pharmacy practice residency at the VA-Houston and was selected as a Fellow, ASHP. He has extensive experience in the development and management of contemporary pharmacy services in a variety of different practice settings. |
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| David Simmons, RPh Pharmacist-in-Charge, Amarillo Pharmaceutical Care Center |
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| Diane Kretschmer, R.Ph., Pharm.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Chief, Lubbock Pharmacy Services Pharmacist-in-Charge, Pharmaceutical Care & Infusion Center Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy Diane Kretschmer earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and her Pharm.D. from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Her practice includes the management of a pharmacy operation that services assisted-living and skilled nursing patients for their prescription and infusion needs. She also supports the infusion needs of a regional medical acute care facility that specializes in correctional patient health. Her pharmacy operation is also the control center for the Texas Tech telepharmacy project that filled the first prescription in the State of Texas using this method. She leads the Lubbock team that includes Barbie Grimes and Beverly Abney. |
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| Deeatra Seaborn, R.Ph., Pharm.D. Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy Deeatra Seaborn earned her Pharm.D. degree from Auburn University and completed a community practice residency at the University of Texas/Walgreen's. She currently has a joint practice with a progressive community pharmacy in Denton, Texas. Her clinical interests include women's health and alternative medicine. She is part of the Dallas team along with Teresa Shih. |
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| Beverly Abney, R.Ph., Pharm.D. Clinical Instructor Pharmaceutical Care & Infusion Center Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy Beverly Abney earned her Pharm.D. degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Her clinical practice interest is geriatrics. She is part of the Lubbock team along with Diane Kretschmer and Barbie Grimes. |
 | Jill Polk, Pharm.D. Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice Management Division Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy Dr. Jill Polk received her Pharm.D. from The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy in 2004. She completed a residency in Ambulatory Care from Scott & White clinics in Georgetown and Taylor, TX and The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently part of the Pharmacy Practice faculty and a community clinical practitioner. Her practice site is with The Village Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy in Amarillo, TX. She is advancing community pharmacy through expanding clinical services and disease state management. Her practice site will be offered as a rotation for advanced pharmacy students. |
 | Kenneth McCall, Pharm.D., BCPS, CACP Assistant Professor, Head, Community Care Division Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy Dr. McCall is an Assistant Professor and Division Head of Community Care in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. He joined the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy in 1998. Dr. McCall earned a B.S. pharmacy degree and doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Oklahoma. He also completed an ambulatory care residency at the University of Oklahoma. He became a Board Certified Pharmacotherapeutic Specialist in 2000 and a Certified Anticoagulation Care Provider in 2002. |
 | Barbie Grimes, R.Ph. Pharm.D. Clinical Instructor and Pharmacist-In-Charge Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy Dr. Grimes is the Pharmacist In Charge of the Pharmaceutical Care Center located in the International Pain Institute in Lubbock. Daily operations include preparing sterile products for intrathecal pain pumps, providing drug information for the clinic staff, as well as dispensing chronic pain management medications to the patients serviced at the International Pain Institute. The Pharmaceutical Care Center also serves as an Advanced Community Practice site for P4 students. Dr. Grimes is a 2002 graduate of the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Doctor of Pharmacy program. |
| Susan Stanford, R.Ph. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy . |
Program Support Staff
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| Lee Easterday, CPhT Pharmacy Special Projects Coordinator and System Administrator Office of Patient Care Services Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lee Easterday is a certified pharmacy technician with responsibility for maintaining the integrity of all data management systems that support the programs in patient care services. He is the primary trainer on the centralized data management system used by all pharmaceutical care centers. |
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| Paula Breeding Coordinator, Departmental Resources Office of Patient Care Services Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paula Breeding is the administrative assistant for Dr. Patry and coordinates a wide range of support activities for the pharmaceutical care centers. |
Current and Former Residents
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| Katherine Elliott, Pharm.D. Current research project entitled “Evaluation of the accuracy of a manual blood pressure and heart rate readings as measured by students in their second, third, and fourth professional year in a doctor of pharmacy program.” |
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| Christine Isanhart, Pharm.D. Christine Isanhart, Pharm.D., is a Community Pharmacy Practice Resident and Assistant Clinical Instructor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy in Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Isanhart precepts pharmacy students in their 3rd and 4th professional years, and she also participates in the Case Studies course as a discussion facilitator at the School of Pharmacy. Dr. Isanhart is a member of the American Pharmacist Association and the Arkansas Pharmacist Association. Upon completion of her residency, her future plans include implementing disease state management programs in retail pharmacies, providing clinical services in outpatient clinics, and serving as a preceptor for pharmacy students. She would someday like to obtain a position in academia. |
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| Emily Evans, R. Ph. Pharm.D., AE-C Emily is a 2003 graduate of the residency program. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at South College of Pharmacy in Savannah, Georgia and specializes in community care. Her practice/research interests cover many aspects of community pharmacy, including women's health, diabetes, asthma, immunizations, and management. |
| Tracey D. Carruthers, Pharm.D. Tracey is a 2001 graduate of the residency program. She is currently a clinical pharmacist and pharmacist-in-charge for United Supermarkets Pharmacy in Lubbock, Texas. |
Information for Applicants
Qualifications
Applicants must be graduates of an ACPE accredited college of pharmacy. A doctor of pharmacy degree is required. Residents must be eligible for, and maintain, licensure in the state of Texas throughout the residency. He or she must also be enthusiastic about expanding knowledge and skills related to community practice.
Information regarding application materials, processes, and deadlines can be found under Applicant Information.
COMMUNITY PRACTICE RESIDENCY-AMARILLO
COMMUNITY PRACTICE RESIDENCY-LUBBOCK
COMMUNITY PRACTICE RESIDENCY-DALLAS