Post Graduate Pharmacy Residency

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RYAN STICE: I'm just incredibly proud
of the entire pharmacy team and the patient care
that they provide.
I really want to take this opportunity
to share with the broader healthcare team
and create some visibility to the good work
that they do every day.

MELANIE DECKER: The Pharmacotherapy clinic
is a clinic that's been established
to incorporate a pharmacist into the oncology department.
So pharmacists that are in this clinic
work closely with physicians, nurses, social workers,
and other staff members to help patients
in their cancer treatment.
JUNGSOO KIM: A lot of our providers
are overwhelmed with workload.
So to reduce, to give it to a lot of our pharmacists
who can help them.
And then we are the one who knows about the pharmacotherapy
of the medications.
SAMUEL PITAK: We take our primary care doctors or any
of our physicians, we try to take all of the things that
are coming into their in-basket, so that would be refills,
patient questions, phone calls, try to divide it up
to other potential people who can handle those messages
faster or more efficiently so that the physician doesn't
have to spend as much time in their in-basket.
DAN LI: At the Advanced Heart Therapy Clinic,
I'm a member of a multidisciplinary team.
So anything medication related, I play a role there.
I'm a consulting person for any staff
who has medication questions and available for patient too.
MARVIN ESCOLAR: As a Financial Navigator,
I help patients with out of pocket cost.
So the cost of treatment for a patient, if it's extremely high
or that they won't be able to afford it,
they might forgo that treatment.
And my role is just to be that person
to help them find programs and assistance
so that they are able to get that treatment.
DAN LI: We have a lot of collaboration
to offer the best patient care we can.
So when the doctors send the prescription,
they know the patient will get it because they can rely on me.
MARVIN ESCOLAR: I'm just very blessed to be here.
Just being in the environment here at Sutter,
having one goal in mind, providing that care
for the patient, that's something that inspires me.
SAMUEL PITAK: And we're always looking for what's next
and how can we offer services where there wasn't any.
So we are always innovating and thinking
of where we can do that.
And when we do put a pharmacist somewhere,
we really work hard to make sure that they're
doing their absolute highest level work that they can.
MELANIE DECKER: It's an honor to work with these patients.
And this is a wonderful career to have
to be able to help patients in their journeys,
in a very difficult, challenging time of their lives.
I feel like I can make the most impacts.
JUNSOO KIM: I love this job.
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