SuperiorHealth Center

APPE Experience Types

Ambulatory Care

Address
Students will rotate through all three of our sites:

Two Harbors:          
1010 4^th St 
Two Harbors, MN 55616

Piedmont Heights:  
2900 Piedmont Ave
Duluth, MN 55811

Piedmont Heights:
218-727-8228

Main contact
Keri Naglosky, Pharm.D., BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist—ambulatory care
keri_naglosky@suphealthctr.com

Main Preceptor

Keri Naglosky, Pharm.D., BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist—ambulatory care
keri_naglosky@suphealthctr.com

Phone
218-834-7202

Teaching Philosophy

I learn best with the model, coach, and facilitate approach to learning, and this is how I approach teaching as well.  You observe what I am doing; I coach you through doing it yourself, and finally facilitate you doing it on your own.  The only way to learn how to take care of patients is by taking care of patients.

Detailed Site Information

Institution
SuperiorHealth Center has provided complete, personal family medical care since 1977. Every member of our experienced and caring staff is committed to meeting our patients’ health care needs. We do this, in part, through the use of the Personal Care Plan – a roadmap for patients to help them achieve their health goals. Patient goals may include anything from preparing for a marathon, to getting up a flight of stairs. Regardless of the patient’s goal, SuperiorHealth Center is available to help through the use of a Care Team – a group of health care providers in which each person plays a specific role in the overall health of the patient.

The use of Personal Care Plans and Care Teams allows us to more effectively accomplish our goals and demonstrate our value of being actively involved with the health and well-being of our patients. We seek to champion their needs with respect, compassion and dignity.

SuperiorHealth Center services include adult medicine, routine obstetrics and gynecology, newborns and pediatrics, adolescent health, geriatric medicine, office surgery, preventive medicine, sports medicine, chiropractic care, occupational health and workers’ compensation. The clinics also offer on-site lab and X-ray services, as well as a full-service pharmacy.

Institutional Mission Statement and Vision
Pharmacy Services
Mission:

• Meet the drug-related needs of patients in a compassionate, caring, and professional manner
• Ensure patients’ drug therapy is indicated, effective, safe, and convenient
• Identify, resolve, and prevent drug therapy problems that interfere with these goals
• Collaborate with patients’ other health care providers to meet these goals

Pharmacy Services
Patient services provided by clinical pharmacy department:
Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
Anticoagulation monitoring
Asthma education

Professionalism and Assessment
We will have ongoing feedback day-to-day (in both directions) to ensure you get the most out of your time with us.  We will do a midpoint evaluation, and a final evaluation.  You will be asked to provide a self evaluation at these times as well.  Any preceptor, other providers, etc. you work with at the site will offer feedback to me or to you directly.  Your final grade will be determined by me with input from others at the site.

Resources
Workspace varies depending on site.  Please contact me a few weeks prior to your rotation to help facilitate gaining computer/internet access.  There is a break room at each site for you to store food, eat lunch, etc.  Generally no lunch is provided.  Parking is in on-site parking lots.

Ambulatory Care

Preceptors
Students will spend time with various providers in the clinic, other pharmacist staff, as well as the pharmacy resident (if we have one at the time).

APPE Structure
~Direct patient care activities (chart review, patient case presentations, visits with patients, documentation, reflection, follow-up)
~Answering drug information questions (typed and referenced)
~Presenting on an ambulatory care topic to pharmacy/clinic staff (developing learning objectives, creating a PowerPoint, presenting in clinic)
~Journal Club (reviewing primary literature, interpreting, presenting)
~Shadowing other providers on the care team
~Ambulatory care topic discussions (reviewing guidelines, new lit, patient cases, etc.)

Student Roles and Responsibilities
Same as above.

Educational Opportunities:
This is highly variable and unstructured at this time.

Other Requirements
I would like to have a brief discussion with students interested in this rotation to find out their goals and verify their understanding of and interest in this rotation.  They should e-mail me and provide a phone number where they can be contacted.