Per Diem Medication Management Pharmacy Intern; Ambulatory Care; Mount Sinai Hospital - Mount Sinai Health System : Job Details

Job DescriptionThe Medication Management Pharmacy Intern is to provide support to team pharmacists, patients, and clinicians to ensure effective, safe, and cost-effective drug therapy.Responsibilities

Data entry: such as obtaining medication histories directly from patients and scheduling visits with a pharmacist. Documents all patient encounters as appropriate in health system documentation system.

Data analysis: such as payer data and claim

Support the pharmacist to implement the patient's care plan, such as navigating insurance benefits, assisting with provider communication

Provide medication, lifestyle, and disease state counseling

Coaches patients, families, and/or authorized care givers on how to use existing skills and develop new ones to make lifestyle behavior changes that can positively affect patient's health. Engages them in the use of MyChart to facilitate electronic access of patient's health care information.

Obtain medication lists and engages with patients about medication adherence to identify and resolve patient adherence barriers that do not require a clinical intervention

Notify the pharmacist/provider of a missing prescription

Notify the pharmacist/provider of a request for a medication refill

Call pharmacies to confirm prescriptions were received and picked up

Call patients to remind them to pick up their medication

Request records from clinics and facilities when necessary

Send referrals to other disciplines to coordinate care when necessary

Enroll patients into criteria-based pharmacy programs and document in the electronic medical record using established formats in a timely and accurate manner

Other duties as assigned

QualificationsEducation Requirements:Minimum first professional year completed at an accredited college of pharmacy.Experience Requirements Previous community pharmacy experience preferred. English proficiency, oral and written.Licensing and Certification Requirements (if applicable)Valid New York State Pharmacy Intern Permit required.Non-Bargaining Unit, 600 - HSO Pharmacy - MSH, Mount Sinai HospitalAbout UsStrength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's The World's Best Smart Hospitals ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism. EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans