Clinical? Precepting? Management? Research? ASHP provides resources that address a variety of professional development needs.

Information for Students

• Student Brochure [PDF]
• Student Experiential Rotations
• Must Read Articles:
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Resources for Pharmacy Informatics Education
  • Pharmacy Informatics Syllabi in Doctor of Pharmacy Programs in the US
  • Implementing Pharmacy Informatics in College Curricula: The AACP Technology in Pharmacy Education and Learning Special Interest Group
  • An Interdisciplinary Online Course in Health Care Informatics
  • The Current State of Pharmacy Informatics Education in Professional Programs at US Colleges of Pharmacy

Information for Residents/Fellows

General:
• PGY2 Outcomes, Goals, and Objectives [DOC]
• Resident Rotations

Residency Program Matrix:
• Pharmacy Informatics Specialty Residency/Fellowship Programs Matrix [PDF]

ASHP Accredited:
• Oregon Health and Science University Hospitals and Clinics
• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
• University of Utah Health Care
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• VA San Diego Healthcare System [PDF]

Candidate:
• Indiana University Health
• Kansas City VA Medical Center
• University of Louisville Health Care
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Fellowship Programs:
• Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and the School of Pharmacy-Boston at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Nova Southeastern University

Other Programs:
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• James A. Haley Veterans Hospital
• Sentara Healthcare
• University of California, San Francisco

Information for Pharmacists

• Educational Programs - AMIA 10x10 Program
• Masters Programs - AMIA Informatics Academic & Training Programs
• Certification Programs - Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS)

IT Job Descriptions

• IT Pharmacist Job Descriptions
• IT Manager Job Descriptions
• IT Pharmacy Technician Job Descriptions

Research Opportunities

• ASHP Research and Education Foundation
  • ASHP Foundation Medication Safety Team Grant: Optimizing Bedside Technology Solutions
  • Junior Investigator Research Grant
  • Pharmacy Resident Practice-Based Research Grant
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Leadership

• Leadership Conference
• REF Center for Health-System Leadership

Additional Resources

• The Pharmacy Informatics Primer - Informatics is not just for specialists! While constantly evolving technology, the growth of evidence-based medicine and the proliferation of information sources have driven the growth of informatics as a pharmacy practice specialty, all pharmacists should understand its basic elements.
• Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Guidebook Series - The book, edited by Jerome Osheroff, MD, will be co-published by HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute, AMIA, ISMP, ASHP, and AMDIS.
• ASHP'S Informatics Pearls - ASHP’s Informatics Pearls is a compilation of expanded versions of original sessions from the 2006 and 2007 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meetings. The pearls presented will help identify how pharmacy informatics programs can be utilized in your hospital system to improve patient care. It will also compare various pharmacy informatics programs and how they improve the medication-use system.
•  Healthcare Informatics - This resource offers a concise, plain-language review of all the major technologies and applications of informatics in health care today, including essentials such as clinical databases, billing, electronic patient records, lab tests, electronic prescriptions, and much more.
• Career Pharm - Look for pharmacy and technician jobs using our online job board, CareerPharm, or view ASHP staff openings, residencies, internship and externships.
• Pharmacy Informatics Exchange (PIE) Blog
• AMIA Pharmacoinformatics Working Group Podcasts
• Recommended Readings, RSS feed and Journals
  • The Informatics Review
  • The Clinical Informaics Wiki - Clinfowiki
  • Journal of Medical Informatics Association
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • iHealthBeat