Cary Healthcare Associates
Southern Regional AHEC

The Ambulatory Care residency provides the resident with advanced skills in patient management, therapy modification for special patient groups, acute care triage, and chronic disease management, etc. The development of these advanced skills occurs in primary care clinics and pharmacy-managed anticoagulation, lipid, and pharmacotherapy clinics.

The residency emphasizes learning at multiple sites which include private practice (Cary Health Care Associates), indigent health care (Wilson Community Health Center), and residency teaching programs (Duke University, Southern Regional Area Health Education Center).

The resident participates in the didactic and clinical training of Pharm.D. students and other healthcare professionals. In addition, the resident contributes to the literature by completing an original research project in the area of primary care. For more information, please download our catalog or contact the Residency Director, Dr. Steve Fuller.

Wilson Community Health Center

The residency in Ambulatory Care at Wilson Community Health Center (WCHC) is designed to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to provide exemplary pharmaceutical care in the ambulatory care setting. Diabetes is a focus within the residency, emphasizing the monitoring and management of diabetes and diabetic complications within an interdisciplinary structure, to reduce the burden of diabetes for patients and their families, for the community and for the healthcare system. The pharmacist-directed Diabetes Outcomes Management Program (DOMP) at WCHC is not solely a glycemic control program, but includes many other management programs such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, weight reduction, and smoking cessation.

In addition to direct patient care responsibilities, the resident will be involved in the didactic and clinical training of pharmacy students and other healthcare professionals. The resident will contribute to the literature by completing an original research project which will be presented at the annual Southeastern Residency Conference.

The resident's months are spent at the Wilson Community Health Center, with the option of incorporating up to three months of off-site elective experiences. As the residency progresses, the resident is given primary responsibility for some of the pharmacy programs at WCHC to assure continuity of care and to develop long-term opportunities for therapeutic and lifestyle modification interventions. For more information, please download our catalog or contact the Residency Director, Dr. Jennifer Smith.