Overview

The Smith’s Community Pharmacy Residency Program is a one-year postgraduate training program aimed at developing leaders in community pharmacy practice. Residents gain experience in many areas including direct patient care, management, teaching and research. These experiences provide Smith’s residency graduates with a broad perspective on the pharmacist’s role in health care, the business of community pharmacy and the advancement of practice in the community pharmacy setting.

Residency Sites and Learning Experiences

Smith’s Pharmacy, Salt Lake City, Utah

Learning Experiences: Patient Care, Patient-Centered Dispensing, Leadership/Management, Teaching/Precepting

Time spent: 2-3 days per week

The resident’s primary practice site will be a Smith’s Pharmacy. Additional learning activities will also be available in other Smith’s Pharmacy locations. The resident will provide basic pharmacy services in addition to dispensing, such as counseling, immunizations, health screenings and medication therapy management (MTM) interventions. In addition, the resident will provide extended patient care services including comprehensive medication management and health coaching for various disease states (i.e. diabetes, cardiovascular disease, tobacco dependence and obesity). The resident will work closely with the Pharmacy Manager to gain management skills necessary to run a profitable, patient-centered pharmacy. The resident will also serve as a preceptor for student pharmacists in both introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences.

Smith’s Division Office, Salt Lake City, Utah

Learning Experiences: Leadership/Management, Practice Advancement, Teaching/Precepting, Patient Care

Time Spent: 1-2 days per week

At the Smith’s Division Office, the resident will work with division- and district-level personnel with roles to support Smith’s Pharmacy operations and clinical services. The resident will work with their district pharmacy coordinator and the division clinical coordinator on business development initiatives, including a clinical services development project and their practice-based research project.

Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy, South Jordan, Utah

Learning Experiences: Teaching/Precepting, Research

Time Spent: 1 day per week

The resident will spend time at the College of Pharmacy interacting with faculty, students and other pharmacy residents. The resident will have the opportunity to participate in teaching in a mastery learning based academic program. A faculty liaison will provide support for the resident’s practice-based research project.

Additional Information

Program length: 12 months, typically from July 1^st to June 30^th

Stipend: $47,000

Benefits as a Smith’s employee:

• 10 vacation/personal days
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Discounts at Smith’s/Smith’s Marketplace stores

Professional meetings: registration fees and travel allowance provided for ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, APhA Annual Meeting and regional residency conference

Resident Qualifications:

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited school/college of pharmacy
• Doctor of Pharmacy degree preferred
• Licensed or eligible for licensure in Utah

Application and Interview Process

Submit the following items via PhORCAS by the January 4, 2019 deadline:

• Personal Statement/Letter of Intent

• Curriculum vitae

• Official transcript

• Three (3) letters of recommendation

Qualified candidates will be invited for on-site interviews to be held in late January through early March.

For More Information

Contact Smith’s Residency Program Director Jaime Montuoro, PharmD by email at jaime.montuoro@sfdc.com or by phone at (801)974-1340.

About Smith’s:

Smith’s Food and Drug is a division of The Kroger Company, one of the largest traditional grocery-pharmacy chains in the country. Smith’s operates 139 pharmacies in seven states in the Intermountain West.