Student Pharmacy Intern- Outpatient

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As a Student Pharmacy Intern in Outpatient Pharmacy, you will have the opportunity to improve your pharmacotherapeutic knowledge and gain experience and confidence, counseling patients across a wide variety of disease states. Our Outpatient Pharmacy is known for providing specialty pharmacy services and supporting outpatient needs as well. We are dedicated to providing you with the personal service necessary to ensure that you achieve the most benefit from your medical therapy.

Job Summary

The University of Chicago Medicine Department of Pharmacy is seeking highly motivated pharmacy students who are looking to further develop their communication, interdisciplinary and pharmacotherapeutic knowledge and skill. The Pharmacy Student Internship opportunity allows for personal growth and multidisciplinary collaboration, while supporting a team that is dedicated to enhancing lives and being at the forefront of medicine. As a pharmacy intern with Meds2Beds, you will deliver and counsel patients on prescriptions given to them prior to discharge from the UChicago Medicine Hospital. This is a great opportunity for students to work in a large, academic hospital and serve a diverse patient population while gaining valuable experience that will strengthen their candidacy when applying for future jobs and/or residencies.

Essential Job Functions

• Delivering medications and providing counseling to all patients who are being discharged with new prescriptions
• Providing acute and comprehensive information about medications and addressing any concerns the patient or patient's family may have
• Filling prescriptions in the pharmacy
• Retrieving hard copies of prescriptions in patients' charts
• Interacting with members of the interdisciplinary team – physicians, nurses, case management, and social work to coordinate and collaborate on efficient and effective medication therapy management

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
• Current Illinois Pharmacy Technician License
• Student currently enrolled in an accredited college of pharmacy

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred one year of pharmacy experience in a hospital or retail pharmacy setting

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Registry/Part-Time
• Shift: Rotate
• Unit/Department: Outpatient Pharmacy
• CBA Code: Non-Union

In this role, we anticipate that you will generally work approximately 8 hours per week. We anticipate that you will generally be scheduled to work the variable shift & will not be scheduled for on-call shifts. We anticipate you will be scheduled to work 100% at the Hyde Park campus. The days you will be scheduled are part-time/weekends, you will work every Saturday.