Residency Description:

• Kings Pharmacy has been an established independent pharmacy in the Brooklyn area for over 60 years. Patient satisfaction is the pharmacy’s number 1 goal. Kings includes a highly professional staff of pharmacists that are specially trained and certified in disease state management. We currently have programs in diabetes, HIV/AIDS, Infertility and hepatitis-C. In addition, Royal Compounding pharmacy has just been added as a new entity to Kings Pharmacy. Royals’ has the ability to provide IV, oral and veterinary compounds. Kings pharmacy proves to offer plenty of opportunity to the profession of pharmacy. Kings has a private consultation room for pharmacists to counsel patients and many affiliations to provide monthly disease state management classes.

• Long Island University has designated Kings to be an ambulatory care site for 6th year PharmD students on rotations. Kings would like to expand its’ opportunities by offering their resources to a one year community pharmacy residency program. The resident will develop in depth training in a wide variety of pharmacy practice with a focus on out-patient pharmacy. The resident and the preceptor will develop and implement specific projects to provide learning experiences consistent with the program.

         Focused Experiences 

• Development and promotion of pharmaceutical care and disease state management services in a community pharmacy.
• Provide continuity of care to Kings patients by rotating through various local clinics and hospitals.
• Learning about community pharmacy management and operations.
• Drug compounding of oral, topical and injectable drugs.
• Opportunity to organize various patient education lectures to support groups and community programs related to health and wellness.
• Opportunity to rotate through different pharmacy settings, such as managed care, pharmaceutical industry, etc
• Development of teaching skills by precepting Pharm.D. students at experiential sites, and at the college of pharmacy.
• The resident will be encouraged to work with LIU faculty members on publishing data and/or writing grant proposals.         

Benefits:

• 2 Weeks paid vacation
• Six paid holidays
• Medical Insurance
• Travel expense of up to $1,000 for the resident to attend a national pharmacy conference

Qualifications and Application Requirements:

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree
• Letter of intent
• Curriculum vitae
• Three letters of reference
• Eligible for pharmacy licensure in the State of New York

Applications are presently being accepted for this residency that is scheduled to begin July 1, 2006

Contact Information:

Sweta Chawla, PharmD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy
Long Island University
75 DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Office: (718) 230-3535
Fax:    (718) 622-6176  

communityresidencyprogram@yahoo.com