Applicants will only be considered after successful completion and submission of the following:
- Completed application via the UM Careers website
- Letter of intent
- Updated curriculum vitae
Join the Pharmacy team at Michigan Medicine! The vision of Michigan Medicine is to create the future of health care through discovery and to become the national leader in health care, health care reform, biomedical innovation, and education. As part of this world-class organization, the Department of Pharmacy Services has high standards for service, education, and research. Our Department has a rich history of excellence; you have the opportunity to join a world-class team to provide exceptional patient care and advance the Mission of Michigan Medicine. Serve a diverse and highly complex patient population as a key member of various interdisciplinary cardiology teams as part of the Pharmacy Department?s Cardiology Team; work to assist in the development, implementation, and monitoring of a variety of clinical services; ensure and promote the safe, rational, efficacious and cost-effective use of drug therapy in patients under the care of our cardiology teams; provide leadership in developing guidelines and policies, facilitating quality improvement processes, and ensuring the success of future generations through the clinical training of staff, residents and students.
Clinical pharmacy services are provided throughout Michigan Medicine to a diverse array of patients and include clinical pharmacy programs that complement our drug distribution system. Pharmacy Services have been organized to follow a service-line approach to better align pharmacy resources and provide the best health care outcomes for patients, which allows pharmacists to participate in teams that coincide with the way care is provided. Clinical pharmacy services offered and required of this position from a departmental perspective include code blue response, pharmacokinetic monitoring and dosing for specific drugs, order review and verification, anticoagulation therapy monitoring and patient education, renal dosing, parenteral nutrition monitoring, and comprehensive profile review. In addition, pharmacists provide leadership to ensure that the organization achieves core safety and quality performance metrics related to medication management.
Pharmacy Clinical Specialist - Cardiology
Pharmacist Specialists actively collaborate with the health care team in designing, implementing, and monitoring patient-specific pharmacotherapy on various cardiology services. The pharmacist attends daily rounds to ensure and promote the safe, rational, efficacious, and cost-effective use of drug therapy. This will include activities such as review of medication orders, provide dosage adjustments per pharmacy policies for anticoagulation, pharmacokinetic antimicrobials, renally dosed medications, parenteral nutrition, and conduct daily profile reviews. The development of guidelines and policies, quality improvement processes, research, and assistance in the clinical training of staff, residents and students is also expected. This position offers the opportunity to serve as a preceptor for University of Michigan College of Pharmacy Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPEs) and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPEs) and obtain adjunct faculty status within the College. Additionally, there are many opportunities to mentor and facilitate the growth and development of pharmacy residents through our strong post-graduate pharmacy education programs.
This will be a part-time position (0.5 FTE) scheduled 2-3 days per week. The position will primarily float through coverage of cardiology services, such as inpatient general cardiology, inpatient heart failure/transplant, inpatients with medical ventricular assist devices, cardiac intensive care unit (CICU), cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU), and potentially outpatient heart transplant. Since this position is a float position, the pharmacist may be trained on other services or in operational areas depending on team and departmental needs. The position
