Pharmacy Intern: Emerging Therapies & Outcomes

Advantasure, Inc.; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 19,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Networking opportunities

Volunteer activities/community service

Professional development

Job summary

BCBSM offers a Pharmacy Services Clinical Intern - Emerging Therapies & Health Outcomes program to work on diverse projects in managed care pharmacy. You will gain practical experience in disease management, utilization, and education for prescribers and patients.

The internship emphasizes hands-on research, collaboration with leaders, and opportunities to contribute to educational materials while expanding therapeutic knowledge and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Current 2nd year student in PharmD program at an accredited College of Pharmacy.
• Strong pharmacy & therapeutics knowledge.
• Strong analytical skills and interest in working with large datasets.
• Interest in practicing pharmacy in a managed care environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze literature, guidelines and claims data for the pipeline of drugs seeking FDA approval.
• Complete projects/assignments that are outcomes research focused, including reviews for publications or presentations.
• Identify opportunities to collaborate with prescribers and members to improve health outcomes related to antibiotics, COPD, asthma, diabetes, statin therapy, medication adherence and opioids.
• Assist in developing clinical rationale for medication use policies and/or utilization management tools for a particular drug or class of drugs.
• Serve as a clinical liaison and develop educational and marketing materials geared towards prescribers and patients on pharmacy hot topics.
• Analyze pharmacy claims to identify processing issues or patterns of utilization.
• Research drug information questions.

Skills

Effective communication

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Organizational skills

Confidential information handling

Education

PharmD student (2nd year)

Tools

Microsoft Office

BCBSM systems

Job description

BCBSM offers a Pharmacy Services Clinical Intern - Emerging Therapies & Health Outcomes program to work on diverse projects in managed care pharmacy. You will gain practical experience in disease management, utilization, and education for prescribers and patients.

The internship emphasizes hands-on research, collaboration with leaders, and opportunities to contribute to educational materials while expanding therapeutic knowledge and communication skills.