HIV Clinic
The HIV Clinic provides specialized management of HIV infection to pediatric patients up to the age of 21. The clinic services about 40 patients. The interdisciplinary team consists of an Infectious Disease Physician, nurse practitioner, social worker and pharmacist. The main role of the pharmacist is to provide medication adherence counseling to the patients and their caregivers. Other clinical activities include, but are not limited to, monitoring patient’s antiretroviral therapy, perform dosage checks and adjusting doses based on weight change, ensuring that the immunization record is up to date, and providing drug information to the healthcare team.
This is a 6-month ½ day/week longitudinal elective experience. This learning experience is designed to develop the resident’s skills in order to adequately provide pharmaceutical care to pediatric HIV patients, review the pathophysiology and therapeutic treatment recommendations of disease states in accordance with national guidelines. The rotation will also help the resident improve their ability to design and implement treatment and monitoring plans and their ability to communicate recommendations to the medical team.
Outpatient Hematology/Oncology Clinic
The Hematology/Oncology Clinic provides comprehensive outpatient services to children with hematological and oncological diagnoses from birth through age 18. Services in the outpatient clinic and day therapy area include diagnostic workups, physical exams, medication administration, chemotherapy administration, blood product administration, pre-, post- and intra-sedation monitoring, and the initiation of the admission process to the hospital. Caregivers in the Hematology/Oncology Clinic assess, plan and initiate care for a variety of patients, while collaborating with the interdisciplinary team. Disease-specific and supportive care education is provided to patients and families on an ongoing basis.
This hematology/oncology clinic rotation is a 4-week elective rotation experience or a 6-month ½ day/week longitudinal elective experience. This learning experience is designed to develop the resident’s skills in order to adequately provide pharmaceutical care to pediatric hematology/oncology patients, review the pathophysiology and therapeutic treatment recommendations of disease states encountered with emphasis on management of pediatric cancer conditions in accordance with national guidelines.