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Student rotations at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) are designed to provide pharmacy students in various stages of their pharmacy education with exciting opportunities to learn first hand from clinical and management specialists. The rotational programs will enable the students to put knowledge into practice while maturing the technical and clinical skills required as clinicians.

We welcome motivated students that are enthusiastic about learning in a high paced, challenging environment. The Department is currently partnered with various schools in the New York metropolitan area, including St. John's University, the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as well as Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. Students from these institutions, who wish to apply to the NYPH student rotational program must apply through their school. The Hospital also welcomes interested students from pharmacy schools currently not partnered with NewYork-Presbyterian. Students from these schools must ensure that our rotational program will fulfill the requirements of their respective schools. It is recommended that the educational institution contact the Hospital to ensure proper communication of requirement fulfillment. (See contact information below)

Description of Program Goals

The students involved in the rotational programs must complete required and elective rotations as specified in the service agreement between their academic institution and the Hospital. The student pharmacy practice experience will provide exposure to:

• Counseling, Education and Presentations
• Drug/Disease Knowledge of Drugs/Disease States
• Medication Order Processing
• Practice Systems and Management
• Professional Involvement in Professional Organizations and Community Service
• Project Management

Rotations

The following are brief descriptions of rotations currently offered. Additional rotations are in the process of development and these courses may change from time to time:

Ambulatory Care

This rotation will touch on three specialties in ambulatory care including hematology-oncology, pediatric oncology and solid organ transplant.

Critical Care

This rotation is designed to allow for the development of the pharmaceutical approach to the critically ill patient. The student will learn to design therapeutic regimens that incorporate the principles of evidence based medicine, implement evidence based monitoring plans that effectively evaluate the patient's response to therapy.

Drug Information

This rotation is designed to educate the student on the function and role of a Drug Information Center in the setting of a large tertiary-care institution. The resident will be trained in effective methods of providing appropriate and applicable drug information to various members of the hospital community.

HIV/AIDS

This rotation will provide the student with an introduction to the care of patients infected with HIV including a general understanding of HIV disease, antiretroviral therapy, and opportunistic infections. It will allow for the development of the skills and competencies needed to provide quality pharmaceutical care in patients with HIV.

Infectious Diseases

This rotation will enable the student to gain a general understanding of the etiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognosis of common infectious diseases. It will allow for the development of the skills and competencies needed to provide quality pharmaceutical care in patients with infectious diseases. The student will develop an understanding of anti-infective agents and their roles in the treatment of infectious diseases, by understanding the relationship between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-infectives and how each relates to the selection of an appropriate drug therapy regimen.

Internal Medicine

This rotation is designed to allow for the development of the pharmaceutical approach to common internal medicine disease states including understanding etiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognosis. The student will learn to design therapeutic regimens that incorporate the principles of evidence based medicine and implement evidence based monitoring plans that effectively evaluate the patient's response to therapy.

Specialized Nutrition Support

This rotation is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the role of nutrition support in the clinical setting with an emphasis on the relationship of nutrition support to pharmaceutical and other therapies. The rotation will also illuminate the role of the pharmacy practitioner in specialized nutrition support.

Pediatrics

This rotation is designed to allow for the development of the pharmaceutical approach to the pediatric patient. The rotation takes place in the hospital pediatric units. Pediatric and adolescent patients have special pharmaceutical care needs because of the changes that occur as they mature. Common pediatric disease states and drug therapy topics (such as the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic differences between children and adults) will be reviewed. Emphasis will be placed upon the rational use of drug therapy in the patient treatment plan.

Practice Management

This rotation will provide the student with an understanding of human resources management, medication resources management, and pharmacy data management systems including pharmacy workload and financial performance. After completion of the rotation, the student will also gain exposure to continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs, knowledge of pharmacy-related Joint Commission standards and Federal and State Laws as they pertain to the health care system, develop an understanding of risk management issues, and understand the process of managing the practice area's human resource issues.