Pharmacy Student

General Summary of Position

MedStar Health has a PRN Pharmacy Student opportunity available. In this role, you will assist pharmacist(s) in all areas of pharmacy operations including prescription preparation, sales transactions, customer service and purchasing and inventory maintenance. MedStar Pharmacy is committed to providing world-class compassionate care to every patient every time at every touch point.

Working as a Pharmacy Student, you will train and be eligible to pick up hours at all four Outpatient pharmacies located within MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center and MedStar Harbor Hospital.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Organizes prescription orders on the counter in order of priority; retrieves labels from the printer; arranges paperwork labels monographs and bags; uses appropriate stamps and notes; and retrieves stock from the shelf.
• Performs phone and face-to-face customer service functions such as: taking in refill requests, new prescriptions, calls doctors for refill authorizations and pre-authorizations.
• Troubleshoots patients' questions and concerns.
• Prepares prescriptions for dispensing: counts and verifies medication labels and vials appropriately and prioritizes waiters.
• Processes cash, check, credit card and payroll deduction transactions; secures appropriate signatures.
• Processes refills and performs data entry of new prescriptions including demographics, insurance plans and prescription information under the supervision of a pharmacist and according to policy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimal Qualifications
Education

• Pharm.D. student actively enrolled in a program from an ACPE accredited school required

Experience

• 6 months pharmacy technician experience in a retail setting or equivalent training required

Licenses and Certifications

• Maryland Pharmacy Student Intern license required upon hire or
• Maryland Pharmacy Technician state license and national pharmacy technician license such as the PTCB or ExCPT required upon hire