Residency Info

Summary
Type/Duration: 12 month residency
Starting Date: July 1

Overview
The University of Tennessee, Memphis is a Health Science Center (UTHSC) located in the southeast United States with Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Graduate Health Sciences. The Drug Information Center (UTDIC) is a unit of the Department of Pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy. Methodist Healthcare - Memphis Hospitals (MHMH) is a private, not-for-profit hospital system consisting of five acute care hospitals and several primary care clinics located throughout the metropolitan area. Methodist Healthcare - University Hospital (MHUH), a 650-bed tertiary care referral center, is the hub of the system and the primary training site for residents.
Resources available to the resident include a modern, computerized drug information center, and a medical library with extensive literature holdings. Drug Information specialists at UTDIC and MHUH provide assistance to health care providers who have information needs related to pharmacotherapy, drug products, adverse drug effects, drug interactions, and investigational therapy. The UTDIC and MHUH are clerkship sites for fourth year Pharm.D. students. The UTDIC provides drug information services and formulary support to over 350 health care facilities through contractual arrangements with several national pharmacy management companies, and the MHUH Drug Information Specialists provide similar services to MHUH pharmacy and medical staff. The Drug Information faculty and residents support the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees (P&T) at the University of Tennessee Bowld Hospital and MHUH. The State of Tennessee has implemented TennCare, a managed care model for its Medicaid program that involves nine managed care organizations serving approximately 1.2 million people. A claims database that is housed at the UT campus allows retrospective review of drug and health care utilization.