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. Work to assist in the development, implementation, and monitoring of clinical services for Internal Medicine-based services; to ensure and promote the safe, rational, efficacious, and cost-effective use of drug therapy in patients under the care of our Medicine services; to provide leadership for clinical services including developing guidelines and policies, developing quality improvement processes, and to assist in 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 manner in which care is provided. Clinical pharmacy services offered and required of this position include pharmacist order review and verification, code blue response, pharmacokinetic monitoring and dosing for specific drugs, 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 quality performance metrics related to medication management.
University Hospital Central Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacist Generalist
Pharmacist Generalists on the UH Central Pharmacy team will participate in rotating responsibilities including order verification, product checking, oversight of sterile compounding, chemotherapy management, pharmacokinetic and anticoagulation dosing and management, renal dosing, and other responsibilities as needed. This position may have opportunity to work in other areas of the department as well.
Generous Benefits Package
- Health insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement plan
- Opportunities to earn continuing education credits at in-house education programs
For more information about the Michigan Medicine Department of Pharmacy Services, see our annual report at: https://www.medicine.umich.edu/dept/pharmacy/pharmacy-annual-report
After successful orientation and training, the pharmacist generalist will rotate through a variety of roles and locations spending time primarily in a medication distribution (centralized) role with some opportunity to work as a service-based clinical pharmacist (de-centralized) as needed. We offer pharmacy services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It is expected that this position will include a mixture of morning, afternoon, and evening shifts.
Specific Centralized and Decentralized responsibilities may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Service Based, Team Pharmacist: Activities include interdisciplinary rounding, comprehensive profile reviews, pharmacokinetic monitoring and dosing, anticoagulation therapy monitoring and dosing, discharge counseling, renal dosing, parenteral nutrition monitoring and adjustments, pharmacy student precepting, and nurse/prescriber education.
- University Hospital B2 Central Pharmacy: The first site of new generalist distribution staffing with operational and clinical activities that include order verification, code response, clinical inquiry response, product verification, medication distribution oversight, technician management, precepting pharmacy students, Pyxis management, and inventory control.
- Other Pharmacy Satellites (pending department need)- (Emergency Department, OR, Clean Room, Cardiovascular Center): Activities include central order verification, medication question triage, product compounding and verification, investigational drug management, controlled substances management, and functional supervision of technical staff working in their area including completion of job assignments and assuring adherence to institutional policies and procedures.
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