The Johns Hopkins Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program is committed to providing residents with a variety of patient care experiences to enhance their skills to become exemplary community pharmacists providing care for a diverse group of patients. Residents are able to customize a schedule that incorporates their areas of interest. The community pharmacies are located within the hospital, which facilitates integration between care teams through the discharge process and during outpatient clinic visits. Residents participate in Medication Therapy Management and offer medication reviews and medication support services in patients homes, via pill box clinic, and telephonically. Electives are available in specialty pharmacy and home infusion.

Purpose: To build upon the doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to develop community-based pharmacist practitioners with diverse patient care, leadership, and education skills who are eligible to pursue advanced training opportunities including postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) residencies and professional certifications. 

Description: This program emphasizes the development of advanced practical skills needed by community pharmacy practitioners concentrating on enhancing existing clinical services and implementing pharmacy practice programs. The experience is individualized to each resident to develop clinical, analytical, teaching, and leadership skills. Residents will have opportunities to provide patient care services including medication therapy management, immunizations, and compounding. The residents will work in a collaborative environment with exposure to diverse clinical specialty areas, including solid organ transplant, infectious disease, geriatrics, oncology, and transitions of care. Opportunities to precept students and provide Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) programs are available. Collaboration with providers in an integrated health system will be emphasized through trans-disciplinary care to improve patient outcomes.

Number of Positions: 2

Residency Program Director
Amy Nathanson, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Programs Manager, Specialty Services
Johns Hopkins Care at Home Pharmacy Services
5901 Holabird Avenue, Suite A-2
Baltimore, MD 21224
[email protected]

PGY1 Rotations

Required rotations:

• Community Involvement & Education (yearlong)
• Internal Medicine Ambulatory Care (12 weeks)
• Leadership (yearlong)
• Medication Safety (yearlong)
• Medication Therapy Management (MTM) (yearlong)
• Pharmacy Practice (yearlong)
• Resident Project (yearlong)
• Transitions of Care (9 weeks)

Elective Rotations (Residents choose a total of 4 electives, 2 of these must be direct patient care)

• Concentrated Leadership (required for CPAL program)
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Geriatrics
• Hepatitis C
• HIV/AIDS
• Home Infusion
• Informatics
• MTM Elective
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Specialty Pharmacy Quality

Example Schedules:

Concentrated rotations are 9 weeks long and scheduled for 20 hours per week

Example 1

Example 2

Resident Project

• Each resident will be responsible for completing a yearlong project with the guidance from our preceptors. The project could include aspects from conception, Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission, implementation, data collection and analysis. This project will be presented as a platform at the Eastern States Residency Conference in the spring. Results and progress may also be presented at other organizational, local, state or national meetings.
• Example projects can be found in the Past Residents page.

Additional Opportunities

• Connectivity to the JHM PGY1 resident class
• Professional development and social networking
• Teaching Certificate (optional)
• Collaborations with local schools of pharmacy
• Active involvement on a pharmacy service committee
• Customization based on resident needs and interests