PGY-1 PHARMACY RESIDENCY PROGRAM

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree (or expected graduation) from an accredited College of Pharmacy with good academic standing.
• Personal and leadership qualifications for residency success.
• Licensure eligibility in Georgia, preferably for the early June examination.

• Curriculum Vitae (include completed/anticipated rotations).
  • Official pharmacy school transcripts.
  • Four PhORCAS Recommendation Forms:
    • Include comments on independence, time management, teamwork, and communication.
    • Two from clinical preceptors, one from a supervisor/advisor, and one of your choice.
    • Traditional letters are not accepted.
• No letter of intent required; instead, upload the Grady PGY1 Supplemental Questionnaire (max 2½ pages) to PhORCAS.
  • Please describe the top three reasons you are specifically interested in the residency program at Grady Health System and how the program will help you achieve your future career plans. In your response, highlight how your personal experiences, professional interests, and potential practice area interests (if any) align with our organization’s values, mission, and the patients Grady serves.
  • Describe how you would advocate for the medication-related needs of a patient from an underserved or vulnerable population. Share an example if you have one or outline how you would approach such a situation.
  • Briefly describe your most challenging clinical APPE learning experience, highlighting what made it challenging and how you addressed those difficulties. 
  • Reflecting on your personal experience, please provide specific examples of how clinical pharmacists contribute to both direct and indirect patient outcomes in the healthcare setting.
  • Briefly describe your exposure to pharmacy residents and your understanding of the role of a pharmacy resident. 
  • Have you been involved in research projects during pharmacy school? If so, what was your role? 
  • How many weeks long were your P4 rotations? 

• 1. Orientation(June/July, 5 – 6 weeks)
  • Hospital and department orientation
  • Epic training
  • Operational (staffing) training
  • On-call training, ACLS training, and stroke response training
  • Pharmacokinetics monitoring training
  • Self-assessment completed and discussed to determine resident-specific plan for residency year
• 2. Internal Medicine I (Team-Based) and Internal Medicine II (Service-Based or Team-Based)
• 3. Critical Care (choose 1)
  • Medical Intensive Care
  • Surgical Intensive Care
• 4. Infectious Diseases (choose 1)
  • ID consults
  • ID/HIV Special Immunology Service (SIS)
  • Antibiotic Stewardship
• 5. Primary Care
• 6. Practice Management·
  • Additionally, longitudinal experience will be obtained during longitudinal drug information and the major residency project experiences

No more than 1/3 of residency in a specific practice area per ASHP Accreditation Standards

• Emergency Medicine – Day Shift
• Emergency Medicine – Evening or Night Shift
• Toxicology Didactic Course (2 weeks – can be paired with another elective experience)
• Hematology/Oncology
• Inpatient Neurology
• Neurology Consults
• Neurocritical Care
• Cardiovascular Intensive Care
• Burns
• Medical Intensive Care II
• Internal Medicine (Geriatrics or Cardiology)
• Specialty Ambulatory Care: (Hep C/Rheumatology/GI/TOC/Anticoag/Heart Failure)
• Drug information/Formulary management

• 24-hr in-house on-call service (starts mid-July, 25 – 30 shifts, 11 months)
• Inpatient staffing (starts in August, 4-hour shift, 15 – 20 shifts, 10 months)
• Pharmacokinetics (12 months)
  • Longitudinal during on-call shifts plus Unit-based coverage (1 calendar month, approximately 4 – 6 months total)
• Research Project 1 and 2 (Flipped model) + December + 8-10 Project days (12 month)
  • Presentation at Vizient and Southeastern Residency Conference
• Drug Information/Medication Use – (12 months)
  • Medication Use Evaluation Group Project, Drug information questions, protocol/policy development, P&T and subcommittee support, continuous quality improvement
• Teaching, Education, and Dissemination of Knowledge (10 months)  
  • Clinical Seminar and Clinical Case – 2 ACPE-accredited presentations
  • Journal Club
  • Pharmacy Department Newsletter
  • Pharmacy staff development/in-service
  • Atlanta Pharmacy Resident Information Exchange (APRIE)
• Professional Development Series (12 months)
• Attendance and active participation (12 months)        
  • Residency Research Advisory Committee Seminars, Professional Development Seminars, Capstone at Emory School of Medicine, APRIE, residency meetings/presentations
• Teaching Certificate (optional through Mercer College of Pharmacy – 12 months)   
  • Experiential and Didactic Tracks  
  • Precepting, Facilitation, Lecture, Teaching Philosophy

Grady participates in the PhORCAS online residency application process. For more information and application deadlines, please see www.ashp.org/phorcas.

Representatives will be available at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting Residency Showcase in December. On-site interviews will be scheduled in February. For additional questions, please contact Dr. Marina Rabinovich, Director of the PGY-1 Pharmacy residency at (404) 616-1628 or e-mail [email protected]