Consultant Pharmacist Positions

[PistonFan531]

Hello,

I graduated in 2014 and have been working in Managed Care (PBM) since graduation. I am a board certified geriatrics pharmacist (CGP) and have been interested in doing full time consultant work in nursing homes (reviewing charts). For the past six months or so, all of the consultant positions that I have came across in Michigan (the state where I live) have been for part time positions. How common is it for a full time consultant pharmacist position to appear? I feel like I am never going to get a chance to enter this field 🙁

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[egyptianmau121]

Did you do residency or did you get into this job straight from graduation?


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[lord999]

Hello,

I graduated in 2014 and have been working in Managed Care (PBM) since graduation. I am a board certified geriatrics pharmacist (CGP) and have been interested in doing full time consultant work in nursing homes (reviewing charts). For the past six months or so, all of the consultant positions that I have came across in Michigan (the state where I live) have been for part time positions. How common is it for a full time consultant pharmacist position to appear? I feel like I am never going to get a chance to enter this field 🙁

Pharmacists are rarely employees of a single nursing home (operative term, single), unless it is massive or it's part of a government organization. Nursing Homes put out requests for contracts and lowest bidder wins. Most of the time, a group wins a contract, then farms out the work to "subcontractors". I don't know MI directly, but you might want to look into what consultant groups are behind those nursing homes. It usually works where a pharmacist needs about 80 or so beds to make a living (which is usually 2 or 3 nursing homes).

 

[spacecowgirl]

Not in MI either but this is a current side hustle for me and I would take lord's estimate and multiply it by at least 10 for FT work. I only have 60ish beds and that's maybe 2 days of work.

Can you start with a couple homes as part of a group and get your foot in? In my area, this is a 1099 job, not a W2 job. You may consider going out on your own but you'll need a good picture of your local market which you could get by taking some homes off of someone's shoulders who wants to cut back.

I like it ok, but I think it would be really monotonous FT. But I haven't had the chance to develop relationships with the staff of the homes or the residents - the kinds of things that would make it more interesting.
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[steveysmith54]

If this is your passion, you may have to take the part time position with hope that it will turn into more...
In Socal, we had a job posting for a position like this:
Pharmacist - Consultant with CVS Health

Don't know how fun it would be to work for a company that answers to CVS.

I dabbled in this field for a bit as a side hustle, i think working for a PBM is a better gig. Nursing homes are not the most fun place to be at, most of the pts had already been established on a drug regimen, I would point out some dangerous doses of benzos and other drugs on the BEERS list, but never felt like this could be my main job.

 

[SouthernRetailRPH]

I would look at getting on with one of the main LTC pharmacies that fill their prescriptions like Pharmerica/Omnicare or others and see if they have a way into consulting or split time between the LTC pharmacy and consulting

 

[hopefullyhelpfulRph]

Hello,

I graduated in 2014 and have been working in Managed Care (PBM) since graduation. I am a board certified geriatrics pharmacist (CGP) and have been interested in doing full time consultant work in nursing homes (reviewing charts). For the past six months or so, all of the consultant positions that I have came across in Michigan (the state where I live) have been for part time positions. How common is it for a full time consultant pharmacist position to appear? I feel like I am never going to get a chance to enter this field 🙁

I am a LTC pharmacist taking the CGP exam in NOV 2017. How did you prepare?