Implementation of a nontraditional postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency program.

Purpose: The development and implementation of a nontraditional pharmacy residency program at a Veterans Affairs medical center (VAMC) are described.

Summary: The nontraditional pharmacy residency program at Lebanon VAMC was designed in accordance with the ASHP accreditation standard. The residency program was structured to meet staff needs without compromising patient care or significantly affecting the pharmacy services provided.

Precepting skills for precepting challenges.

Objectives: To guide pharmacy preceptors in developing a systematic approach to students who have performance or behavioral issues and to provide advice on how to proceed if a failing grade or student dismissal is being considered.

Data Sources: Relevant medical and pharmacy education literature as selected by the authors.

Summary: When a student performs poorly on a rotation, a preceptor must reflect upon the circumstances surrounding the situation.

Leading the next renovation: redesigning a pharmacy structural workspace.

Objective: To stimulate people to start researching how to take advantage of a pharmacy redesign opportunity before they are put in the situation of carrying out the redesign.

Setting: Medium-sized Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lebanon, PA, from 2007 to 2009.

Practice Description: The pharmacy service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lebanon, PA, encompasses all aspects of inpatient, outpatient, clinical, and managerial services.