The path to a rewarding pharmacy career begins here.

Blount Memorial offers pharmacy residents the hands-on experience, direct patient care and relevant rotations needed to achieve their career goals.

Since Blount Memorial is a team-oriented, community hospital, residents have the opportunity to learn and grow in a supportive, professional environment where patient care is the top priority.

If you are searching for an intensive pharmacy residency program, consider what Blount Memorial has to offer:
• Competitive salary with several days off for interviewing opportunities
• Educational leave and travel expenses for meetings including the ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting and the Southeastern Residency Conference
• Employee health insurance plan
• Excellent training site for supervised practice development
• Full-time, 12-month training experience based on the principles and precepts of the resident learning system
• Organized, directed post-graduate training program in pharmacy practice

Our Mission

Our mission is to produce practitioners who have accomplished the goals set forth by our  residency program and ASHP standards. Blount Memorial helps develop pharmacists into competent clinical practitioners with strong leadership skills.

Our program provides the knowledge and experience that pharmacy practitioners need to face challenges in today’s complex health care systems, while also developing essential skills to meet the practice demands of the future.

Our Comprehensive Opportunities

As a comprehensive, short-term acute care facility, Blount Memorial offers a broad range of practice  experiences. Our comprehensive pharmacy services provided by outstanding residency-trained pharmacists give pharmacy residents an excellent training site for supervised practice development.

Clinical Program

Pharmacy Services
• Antibiotic surveillance, culture and sensitivity monitoring
• Automatic antibiotic adjustment protocol
• Automatic IV to PO program
• Cancer and chemotherapy rounds
• Coumadin clinic
• Critical care patient monitoring
• Home infusion pharmacy
• Hospice pharmacy services
• Hospital committee participation
• Inpatient anticoagulation monitoring service
• Intervention monitoring program
• Medication safety monitoring program
• Medication use evaluation
• Nutrition support team
• Pharmacokinetic monitoring service
• Renal dosing program
• Therapeutic drug monitoring consultations

Education and Teaching Opportunities
• Asthma/COPD/emphysema education
• Cardiac rehabilitation education
• Coumadin education
• Drug information and P&T newsletter preparation
• Precept pharmacy students
• Staff in-service programs

Designated Core and  Longitudinal Experience

 Core Rotations
• Intensive care
• Internal medicine
• Nutrition
• Oncology
• Practice management

Longitudinal Experiences
• Drug information and medical informatics
• I.V. to PO conversion 
• Medication safety
• Outpatient anticoagulation clinic
• Pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacy practice experience
• Research methods

Elective Rotations
• Academia
• Anticoagulation management
• Cardiology
• Emergency medicine
• Geriatrics
• Home infusion
• Infectious disease

Additional Resident Activities
• Fall and spring seminars (one with an emphasis in medication safety)
• Residency project, presentation at the Southeastern Residency Conference (SERC) and manuscript preparation
• Three journal clubs
• Three medication use evaluations

Application and Program Information

The pharmacy currently is accepting applications for three positions in its pharmacy practice residency program, which begins on Thursday, July 1, 2010.

To be eligible, the following information must be submitted to the Blount Memorial Hospital pharmacy by Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 prior to an on-site interview in February.

• Anticipated Pharm.D. with eligibility for Tennessee licensure
• Academic transcripts from pharmacy school (prior college transcripts are not necessary
• Curriculum vitae
• Cover letter
• Complete an online application
• Three letters of recommendation, two of which must be from
• pharmacy practitioners on this form

Mail these items to:

Jeanne Ezell, MS, FASHP
Pharmacy and residency program director
Blount Memorial Hospital
907 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway
Maryville, TN 37804

Map of Blount Memorial Hospital

To learn more about the program, e-mail Rob Lucas, Pharm.D., at rlucas@bmnet.com, call him at 865-981-2470 or send a page to 865-597-5384. 

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