What is difference between clinical coordinator and DOP?

[JakeSill]

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And is pgy-1 enough to get the job?

 

[zelman]

And is pgy-1 enough to get the job?

DOP runs the pharmacy, which includes non-clinical aspects. You won't find a clinical coordinator negotiating wholesaler contracts.

 

[gwarm01]

Both jobs require experience and I would be suspicious of any hospital willing to hire you for them right out of residency. Director feels more operationally focused to me than a clinical coordinator, although also having to deal with the politics of a hospital.

 

[Caffeine QAM]

Depends on where you're at. Might seem obvious, but clinical coordinator is usually in charge of clinical projects, performance, data collection etc. DOP takes care of the regulatory/operations side usually, but there can be some overlap (DOP overseeing or working with the CC on clinical stuff). Some places don't even have CCs and the DOP does all of the above.

Would be hard to make it to either position with PGY-1 alone. Maybe PGY-1 and a few years of the right experience and the performance and motivation to show for it for clinical coordinator. If you work as staff pharmacist for a few years and show leadership skills, that you're involved in performance improvement activities, and that you're interested in outcomes, that could probably land you in a clinical coordinator position.

 

[Carboxide]

Clinical coordinator works under DOP and is involved with non-dispensing roles. DOP is over the entire pharmacy.

 

[JakeSill]

Is residency required for any of the position with the right amount of experience?

 

[Dalteparin]

Is residency required for any of the position with the right amount of experience?

Essential for CC. At a small hospital, mayyyybe you could be DOP without having done a residency, but a larger hospital will probably require it, especially if that hospital has a residency program.

 

[gwarm01]

Essential for CC. At a small hospital, mayyyybe you could be DOP without having done a residency, but a larger hospital will probably require it, especially if that hospital has a residency program.

Maybe this is a regional thing, but I've worked in several hospitals where directors and clinical coordinators did not have a residency. They also weren't fresh faced 24 year old new graduates but had years of experience.

 

[Dalteparin]

Maybe this is a regional thing, but I've worked in several hospitals where directors and clinical coordinators did not have a residency. They also weren't fresh faced 24 year old new graduates but had years of experience.

Good point. This OP seemed like a student who'd like to be a CC or DOP someday, in which case a residency would be the way to go, but for an older pharmacist, lack of residency isn't necessarily a disqualifier.

 

[Dred Pirate]

residency required? Depends on the hospital and when you graduated.
I was a DOP right out of school - rural podunk hospital - compare that to a large teaching institution- you would need 15+ years of experience to be even considered. The thing is a lot of DOP's might not have a residency because they graduate in the 90's when residencies where not that common. Many I know aren't even PharmD's, they are BSPharms. But most have an MBA.

CC - same thing as above - likely anyone graduating now who wants to go down that route is going to have a PGY-1, maybe a PYG-2, but again, experience trumps all.

I am a "clinical specialist manager" type of position - now PGY-1, no MBA, just years of experience.

 

[JakeSill]

I am a "clinical specialist manager" type of position - now PGY-1, no MBA, just years of experience.

You didn't have a PGY-1?

 

[Dred Pirate]

You didn't have a PGY-1?

no PGY-1 is what I meant to say - nope didn't go down that route - more than 1/2 of my employees do, I think it is kind of funny that they have more letters behind there name, but I do their performance reviews 🙂