Number of Positions: 1
Estimated Salary: NMS Code – 238415
Estimated Starting Date: July 1
Residency Site Location: Little Rock, Ark.
Background
Kroger Pharmacy offers a community pharmacy residency that provides an opportunity to enhance your clinical and professional skills by providing a variety of hands-on wellness and medication therapy management services. Clinical services include employee health screenings, health coaching programs, and medication therapy management. Various routine and travel health immunizations are offered at Kroger Pharmacy locations.
The resident will be involved in teaching opportunities with Kroger Pharmacy’s Patient Care Specialist Team and will interact with other divisional and district members of the pharmacy team. Seasonally, the resident will assist with running off-site flu clinics. During the second half of the residency, the resident will spend one half-day per week in an ambulatory care clinic setting. In addition, they will have the opportunity to precept and teach pharmacy students, conduct a research project, write articles for publication in collaboration with UAMS faculty, and develop and implement new or expanded clinical services.
Kroger Pharmacy is a large supermarket chain that operates 29 pharmacy departments in the state of Arkansas. The Little Rock Kroger Marketing Area is committed to the provision of patient care and the advancement of the profession of pharmacy. Innovative pharmacy designs, including private counseling rooms, allow for improved pharmacist-patient communication. Immunizations and medication therapy management are offered at all pharmacies in the state
Site Coordinator: Rachel Stafford, Pharm.D.