CCPC PharmD Fellowship in Primary Care
The Connecticut Center for Primary Care (CCPC) will be co-sponsoring a Fellowship in Primary Care with the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy. Applicants must have a PharmD degree from an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy and be licensed as a pharmacist in Connecticut. The fellow will spend two days a week from July 2008 through June 2010 collaborating with CCPC on medication-related research and education projects. The fellow will engage in study design, grant writing, protocol management, data analysis, manuscript preparations, and publication. The fellow will also participate in continuous quality improvement activities and provider education.
The fellow will also spend a day a week at the Burgdorf Clinic in Hartford providing primary care pharmacotherapy, providing pain management services, developing new clinical services, collaborating on CQI projects, providing in-services to health care professionals, and serving as a drug information resource. The Burgdorf Clinic is an urban multidisciplinary primary care clinic affiliated with the University of Connecticut’s Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry; and the nursing, podiatry, physician assistant, and other allied health professional programs from the state.
The fellow will also receive an appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy and will assist in teaching and precepting of pharmacy students at Storrs and the Burgdorf Clinic.
Internships and Mentorships (SCP/UST)
Medical and nursing students, spend one half day per week with community-based, primary care physicians for the past ten years. The goal is for students to develop continuity with their SCP preceptor, the practice staff, and a group of patients.
Past Projects
Developmental Monitoring and Referral, Help Me Grow
Funded by the Commonwealth Foundation
Collaboration with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) and Children’s Trust Fund Program designed to improve developmental monitoring by child health providers. Training involves visits to 150 pediatricians and family physicians throughout the state to present tools for identifying children at risk for developmental delay and referral to state early intervention services. CCPC staff completing the medical record abstraction as part of the program evaluation
Genetics Symposium
Funded by Department of Public Health and University of Connecticut Newborn Screening - Two speakers addressed 32 physicians about the impact of genetic information on the universal metabolic newborn screening for 31 inborn conditions. Attendees received 2 Category I CME credits. This program improved awareness of new state newborn tests, and referral resources and of the role of the new genetics in primary care.
University Health Services Symposium
Funded through a pharmaceutical sponsorship – Novartis, GSK, McNeil
A half day session was held for all university health personnel in the state. Presentations addressed: ADHD medications; medication combinations; and efficient and effective integration of counseling and education to students requiring psychotropic medications.
Asthma Education
Sponsored by the University of Hartford - A lunch and learn focusing on asthma management in the college athlete was held for coaches and athletic trainers at the University of Hartford.
Sensory Screening in Pediatric Practice
Funded by the US Department of Education - Project educates office nursing staff around the state in the new technologies and guidelines for sensory screening in children.