Residency pathways to ambulatory care practice: Essential insights for students, residents, and educators.

Objective: To provide a guiding document describing residency training opportunities in ambulatory care for students, postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) residents, practicing pharmacists, and pharmacy educators.

Summary: Student pharmacists, residents, practitioners, and educators can benefit from a guiding document describing the various pathways to develop as an ambulatory care practitioner through residency training. The benefits and differences of PGY1 and postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) ambulatory care residency programs are included.

Interprofessional Collaboration to Improve Discharge from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Preliminary Data on Postdischarge Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits.

An interprofessional collaborative practice model was established at Hennepin County Medical Center to improve discharge management from the transitional care unit of the skilled nursing facility (SNF) to home. The practice model involves a geriatrician, nurse practitioner, and pharmacist who care for individuals at a community-based SNF. Before SNF discharge, the pharmacist conducts a chart and in-person medication review and collaborates with the nurse practitioner to determine the discharge medication regimen.

Development and Validation of a Patient Satisfaction Survey for Comprehensive Medication Management.

Background: Comprehensive medication management (CMM) services are a relatively new standard for clinical practice. A patient satisfaction tool for pharmacists providing comparable pharmacy services is essential for measuring quality and sustainability.

Objective: To develop a psychometrically valid questionnaire for measuring patient satisfaction for CMM services.

Integrating home-based medication therapy management (MTM) services in a health system.

Objectives: To describe the integration of home-based Medication Therapy Management (MTM) into the ambulatory care infrastructure of a large urban health system and to discuss the outcomes of this service.

Setting: Minnesota from September 2012 to December 2013. The health system has more than 50 primary care and specialty clinics.