The Chalmers P Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Centeris part of the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System.
This healthcare system serves veterans in the greater Columbus area
the VACOS has been improving the health of men and women who have proudly served our nation
we consider it our privilege to serve the health care needs of our veterans this facility has
no inpatient beds and thus our program is focused on outpatient or ambulatory care.
Hi I'm Mallory Accursi I'm a residency program director for our pgy1 pharmacy residency program
today I'll be giving you a tour of our facility and giving you some insight into our wonderful
residency program in addition to our main facility we offer services in our four community-based
outpatient clinics in Marion Zanesville Newark and Grove City Ohio. We have ample on-site parking and
are easily accessible to public transportation. The outpatient pharmacy is located on the first
floor here veterans speak with a pharmacist to receive counseling on their medications
our clinical pharmacists provide excellent care making sure veterans understand how to
use their medications ensure safe prescribing and answer medication-related questions
the counseling and dispensing rotation focuses on prescription processing and patient counseling
Hello welcome to the VA's Central Ohio Healthcare System pharmacy service and to our postgraduate
year one residency program my name is Karen Corr and I'm the chief of pharmacy and I'm also the
administrative rotation preceptor let me tell you first a little bit about our VA pharmacy program
we have about 60 employees 40 of whom are pharmacists in a variety of roles. we have
specialists in primary care. we have specialists in oncology and infectious disease. behavioral health
we have a number of support staff technicians
and secretary administrative officer that help us run a very robust pharmacy program
of those 40 pharmacists here about 20 of them serve as preceptors for our residency program
the VA Central Ohio healthcare system serves about 43 000 unique veterans in the central Ohio
area as an ambulatory care facility we have no inpatient rotations but we do have a number
of opportunities for residents to experience ambulatory care services in a variety of settings
one of those areas is oncology another is behavioral health, infectious diseases, primary care,
home-based primary care, and a variety of other administrative and drug policy rotations
let me tell you first a little bit about the drug policy rotation with our associate chief
for clinical operations that particular rotation will allow you the opportunity to learn more about
drug policy development and utilization throughout our facility things like medication
use evaluations how the pharmacy and therapeutics committee works and how that information then gets
moved and translated to the medical executive board for further evaluation and assessment
they will also give you an opportunity to work on our pharmacy newsletter the antidote.
we also have other drug policy opportunities looking at the staffing rotation and the entry
of adverse drug events into the global VA systems for the administrative rotation we'll be spending
some time on leadership and management within the institution I'll try to give you a overview of VA
pharmacy practice and the various aspects involved in the pharmacy service as an enterprise
we'll look at procurement budget, leadership and management, human resources and we'll talk
a little bit more in detail about how each of those aspects are managed within the VA
and in pharmacy administration as a whole we'll have an opportunity
to have you do some interesting shadowing opportunities perhaps with our supervisors and
also give you an opportunity to look at medication use evaluations and how those will translate into
VA policy here at the Columbus VA so we look forward to seeing you here and thank you very much
come check out one of our clinical pharmacy specialist offices
in here our residents have their own desk space hi my name is Katie XU and I'm the one one of
the pharmacy residents here at the VA Central Ohio healthcare system. so i chose this residency
program because i loved my experience here as a student where i had really amazing supportive
preceptors who were really interested in my goals and kind of my interests and how
i wanted to learn and as a resident as well I've had a really great experience with the preceptors
and I've experienced the same support as well so that's been really amazing and also this
residency program here is very unique and that it's an ambulatory care site so there's a lot of
opportunity to really practice and hone your ambulatory care skills and your clinical skills
and also patient care skills and a lot of the clinics that we have for example the pact your
primary care clinic as well as oncology clinic and also anticoagulation and also more than that as
well so in these clinics pharmacists can act with autonomy and can act as providers for patients
so definitely if ambulatory care is an interest of yours this is a really great program for you
hi my name is Hannah and I'm in the residence here at the Columbus VA and one of the reasons
that i chose this residency was because i am very interested in ambulatory care and this residency
is perfect for it it gives me longitudinal experiences in both the primary care clinic
and the anti-coach clinic as well as touch points throughout the year in a multitude of experiences
all of the preceptors here want to help you learn and nobody is off-putting it's a great environment
for learning and becoming the best pharmacist that you can be and if you are definitely interested
in ambulatory care i think that this would be a perfect fit for you. Hi my name is Liz Hansen I'm
the clinical oncology pharmacy specialist this is our oncology infusion center where we come to see
cancer patients pharmacy residents will have the opportunity to do a four week rotation with me
during this time we'll be performing patient education seeing patients in our oral oncology
clinic as well as doing drug monitoring we look forward to meeting you. The VA uses primary care
teams called pact or patient aligned care teams. pact transforms veterans care by providing
patient-driven proactive personalized team-based care focused on wellness and disease prevention
this approach results in improvements in veteran satisfaction and healthcare outcomes pact puts the
patient at the center of a team whose focus is on their care and health goals this team includes a
provider rn lpn medical support assistant social worker dietitian mental health and a pharmacist
so this is an example of one of our primary care hallways each primary care hallway houses three
providers and the three nurses that work with them to help room patients when they're seen
this is our yellow team hallway each team has a clinical pharmacist who's assigned to that team
and you can see that we also have our clinical pharmacist office which is centrally located
next to the team so that they're readily available for provider questions or any patient care needs
that come up our pharmacy clinic hallway is located just on the way from one of our clinical
pharmacists offices here pharmacists have clinic rooms where they see anticoagulation patients
as well as our comprehensive medication management clinics with pact and also some infectious disease
patients this is an example of one of our pharmacy clinic rooms where people can be seen either in
person so face-to-face visits over the phone or virtually with a video appointment our residents
do clinic appointments all different ways so that when they finish their residency and begin their
clinical careers they're well-versed and able to care for patients in multiple modalities
so my name is Amanda Zeek I'm a clinical pharmacy specialist here at the Grove City VA clinic
i provide medication management to our primary care clinics as well as anticoagulation services
and i do that via point of care testing what initially drew me to the Columbus VA residency
program was really just the ambulatory care focus um that's something that's quite unique for a pgy1
residency and um it was really the longitudinal experience that i got that gave me the skill
set and really the confidence to be able to immediately obtain a job at the VA and work as a
clinical pharmacy specialist so after residency i did move down to Georgia and i worked at actually
a brand new outpatient clinic for the Georgia VA system and i was the clinical pharmacist down
there i was actually able to build my own practice as well as expand our services into things like
copd management and i really believe that my experiences at the Columbus VA residency
program really allowed me to obtain that position as well as really expand those services down there
and then one unique thing about this residency program is they do allow you
to pursue a teaching certificate and that was really important to me so i did obtain a teaching
certificate through the OSU college of pharmacy and with that experience I've been able to mentor
pharmacy students i continue to mentor pharmacy students at OSU college of pharmacy as well as
I'm a preceptor for students and for residents here at the Columbus VA clinic
one of the things that i think makes this program special is our preceptors we have preceptors who
did their residency here as well as many that came from other vas all provide invaluable perspective
which helps our program excel and continue to grow these preceptors really prioritize the care
of our veterans and are a shining example of how we can give back to those who served our country
if this is a career goal of yours you would truly learn from the best of the best here
thanks for joining me today i hope you learned more about our residency program for additional
resources please visit our residency website page and don't hesitate to contact with any questions
we hope you consider applying to be a part of our wonderful pharmacy team