This learning experience is designed to develop the resident’s skills in order to adequately provide pharmaceutical care for up to 22 patients, review the pathophysiology and therapeutic treatment recommendations of disease states encountered with emphasis on pharmaceutical management in accordance with national guidelines. The rotation will help the resident improve their ability to design and implement treatment and monitoring plans and their ability to communicate recommendations to the medical team. Also this rotation will strive to prepare and motivate the resident to commit to life-long learning in the rapidly changing health care environment.
This rotation will require extensive readings and will assume an adequate knowledge base on the topics reviewed in these required readings. Time management and prioritizing tasks are essential for a successful and rewarding experience as it will be expected that the resident will cover and be familiar with all the patients currently in the intensive care unit.