PHPR 674 Ambulatory Care Advanced Clerkship I or
PHPR 677 Ambulatory Care Advanced Clerkship II

• Eric Scott, R.Ph.
  Colmery O'Neil VA Medical Center
  Department of Pharmacy
  2200 Gage Blvd.
  Topeka, KS 66622
• Phone: (785) 350-3111, Ext. 2768
• Fax: (785) 350-4381
• E-mail: Eric.Scott2@med.va.gov

Clerkship Description
The primary care setting at the Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center provides the student opportunities to interact with many different disciplines.  The student is assigned to a specific medical treatment team that follows their patients whether they are outpatients or inpatients.  This team, consisting of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dieticians, social workers and urgent care providers will share with the student their role in providing patient care.

Opportunities for the student include: 

• Kinetic workups
• Long-term care chart reviews
• Discharge counseling
• Grand rounds
• Brown bag outreach clinics held off campus
• Many other options for the motivated individual

The pharmacy clinic will allow the student opportunities to speak with patients immediately following their physician appointment.  The patients' chart and lab values are available for review at this time.  This setting allows the physician/pharmacist/student to be available to each other while medications are being selected should questions arise.

Specific Site Requirements/Information
If you need dorm space, you must let them know at least one month prior to your arrival.

Two weeks prior to your arrival, you must submit:

• Copy of resume
• Date of birth
• Social security number
• Address
• Phone
• Confidentiality statement
• Immunization records
• Exact dates of rotation
• Meals request - yes or no

If you are not an American citizen please let Christy Berger know so that additional paperwork may be completed before the rotation begins.

Directions to Site
See Colmery O'Neil VA Medical Center.

PPE Director:    Jim Kleoppel
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