Gastroenterology rotation pharmaceutical care N 83
1. Pharmacy Services
Pharmacy Services / Residency Programs / Rotations / Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology Rotation
Preceptor:
Anthony Dalpiaz, PharmD
Site Description:
The Gastroenterology clinic is located within the University of Utah Health Care Hospital. The clinic is
adjacent to many specialty clinics, infusion center, laboratory, and outpatient pharmacy. Clinical pharmacy
services include patient education and consultation in hepatitis C, inflammatory bowel disease, GERD,
eosinophilic esophagitis, and other general GI issues.
Learning Experience Description:
The resident will work as an integral participant on the GI team in GI clinic. The resident will be responsible
for reviewing and reconciling patient medications in clinic. Provide patient education on disease state
management and new medications, evaluate drug therapy regimens, provide recommendations for
optimizing drug therapy, monitoring, and patient adherence. You will also be involved in the triage process
of medication-related problems of clinic patients. You will lead a topic discussion every week and present 1
in-service for nursing staff AND do 1 major clinic project (i.e., patient education handout). You will be
interacting extensively with patients, providers, and ancillary personnel. You will also be required to attend
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds on a weekly basis, Gastroenterology clinical conference on a weekly basis
if applicable, and attend Utah Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board meetings on a monthly basis.
RLS Goals
Goal R2.2: Establish collaborative pharmacist-patient relationships.
Goal R2.3: Collect and analyze patient information to identify medication or non-medication-related
problems.
Goal R2.4: Design comprehensive evidence-based medication or non-medication, health improvement,
wellness, and/or disease prevention regimens for patients.
Goal R2.5: Design evidence-based monitoring plans for patients.
Goal R2.10: Communicate ongoing patient information to other healthcare professionals.
Objective Number (Level of Learning Required) &
Description
Methods Rotation Activities
Goal R2.2: Establish collaborative pharmacist-patient relationships.
OBJ R2.2.1: (Synthesis) Formulate a strategy that
effectively establishes a patient-centered
pharmacist-patient relationship.
Modeling
Coaching
Facilitation
The resident will be exposed to many
different types of patients with different
types of GI ailments. The resident is
expected to develop the skills to develop
a rapport with the patient and effectively
establish a pharmacist-patient
relationship.
Goal R2.3: Collect and analyze patient information to identify medication or non-medication-related
problems.Goal R2.5: Design evidence-based monitoring plans for patients.
Goal R2.10: Communicate ongoing patient information to other healthcare professionals.
