Residency - Clinical

Blount Memorial’s Pharmacy Practice Residency Clinical Program offers supervised practice development led by residency-trained pharmacists

Blount Memorial Hospital’s 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 susceptibility monitoring
• Antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) 
• Automatic antibiotic adjustment protocol
• Automatic I.V. to PO program
• Cancer and chemotherapy rounds
• Coumadin clinic
• Critical care patient monitoring
• Drug information/Informatics
• Emergency medicine pharmacy services 
• 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
• Pharmacy consult for medication management
• Renal dosing program
• Therapeutic drug monitoring consultations

Education and Teaching Opportunities

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

For more information about the Blount Memorial Pharmacy Practice Residency Clinical Program or to request an application, call Rob Lucas, Pharm.D., at 865-981-2470 or e-mail rlucas@bmnet.com.