Leadership Needs in Health-System Pharmacy
The gap between what is needed and what is projected to be available in pharmacy leadership position is an issue of strategic importance within the profession and health care. It has event been called a “leadership crisis.”
According to Sara J. White, MS, graduate of the MS/Residency in Health-System Pharmacy Administration and recent ASHP Foundation Scholar-in-Residence:
- Pharmacy leaders are satisfied with their jobs,
- More than 75% of pharmacy leaders anticipate leaving their positions in the next decade,
- Significant opportunities exist in hospital pharmacy for individuals with good leadership training
The program
The M.S. residency program was established at The Ohio State University in 1959 and has achieved national recognition as one of the most successful administrative training programs in the country. The twenty-four month program, provided in five hospitals in Columbus, Ohio (Children’s Hospital, Grant Medical Center, Mt. Carmel Hospital, the Ohio State University Medical Center, and Riverside Methodist Hospital) in cooperation with The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, offers a combined Master of Science degree and an ASHP-accredited specialty residency in Health-System Pharmacy Administration.
The focus of the M.S. residency program is to produce leaders that are attuned to the challenges of providing health care and are able to direct the future of the profession. Residents have experience in a wide range of pharmacy practice areas to provide them with the administrative, managerial, and clinical skills required to effectively lead a pharmacy program in a large health-system or other health care organization to improve medication-use.
The major focus of the program is to educate and train pharmacists to plan, coordinate, provide, and evaluate and improve medication-use effectiveness, safety and efficiency in an organized health care system. To accomplish this goal, the program provides residents with the skills to:
- Directly provide pharmaceutical care to the patient and assist members of the health care team
- Understand the managerial, financial, and organizational components of health-system pharmacy
- Design strategies to cope with changes in pharmacy practice and health care environments
Residency training is geared to complement and extend the knowledge gained in graduate study courses. The program provides practical experience in administrative and clinical pharmacy activities.
Visit the M.S. Residency Program's web site.
Contact: Philip Schneider, 614-292-1514; Schneider.5@osu.edu
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