Learning Experiences

Required Learning Experiences

  • Orientation (6 weeks)
  • Discharge Prescription Program Management (Longitudinal)
  • Transition of Care (Longitudinal)
  • Community Wellness and Education (Longitudinal)
  • Management and Leadership (Longitudinal)
  • Compassionate Care Pharmacy (Longitudinal)
  • Project Management (Longitudinal)
  • Ambulatory Care (Longitudinal)
  • Patient-Centered Dispensing (Longitudinal)
  • Teaching and Learning Curriculum Program (Longitudinal)

Elective Learning Experiences (5 weeks), resident may pick one of the following

  • 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

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

2024-2025

Emily Shygelski, PharmD- Retrospective analysis of medications returned in a community pharmacy discharge program
Preceptor: Marcia Brackbill, PharmD, BCPS