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.

• 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
• 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 II – Unit-Based Practice (any medical/surgical unit or cardiology or geriatrics focused)
• Internal Medicine II – Team-Based Practice
• 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 Southeaster 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 Trackso  
  • 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]