PGY1 Residency - Pharmacy Residency Program` - James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital - Tampa, Florida
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James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital - Tampa, Florida

 

PGY1 Residency - Pharmacy Residency Program`

Program Director: Natalie Verbosky, Pharm.D., BCPS

EmailNatalie.Verbosky@va.gov

Program Goal: Resident will learn the role of clinical pharmacists who are responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions.

Practice Experiences

This program offers the PGY-1 resident flexibility in practicing in a wide variety of clinical areas. In your residency learning experiences, you will be expected to identify and solve drug-related problems as part of providing exceptional clinical patient care. Understanding many of these problems will require knowledge of the pharmacy service, including the inpatient and outpatient distribution systems. To be an effective resident, you must be able to function as a pharmacist within our health care system, processing and editing medication orders as appropriate to meet patient care needs. We prepare you for this responsibility in your clinical learning experiences by starting the residency year with a required learning experience in Orientation to Distribution and then continue with a required longitudinal learning experience in staffing. During these times, you will work closely with senior pharmacists who will facilitate this transition from pharmacy student to pharmacist.

After your initial orientation/distribution experience, you will then transition into your core rotations/electives. We aim to have your core rotations of Ambulatory Care and Internal Medicine completed first. Priority for certain core rotations and electives prior to Midyear will be given to those residents looking to complete a PGY-2 in a respective area. Electives are flexible and your schedule can be changed throughout the year.

Learning Experiences

Longitudinal

  • Administration
    • Chief Residency Term (3 months)
    • Policy/Protocol
  • Staffing/Distribution
    • 2020-2021 Staffing Requirements: One 4-hour evening shift/week and one 8-hour Saturday shift/month
  • Research Project/MUE
  • Teaching
    • 2 Grand Round Presentations (ACPE accredited)
    • Student teaching sessions
    • Formal Journal Club Presentation to department
    • Optional Teaching Certificate through University of South Florida

Core/Required (8 weeks)

  • Orientation/Distribution
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Internal Medicine

Electives (6 weeks) – Each resident will have 5 electives per residency year

  • Administration
  • Ambulatory Care II
  • Cardiology/CCU
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Geriatrics/Long-Term Care
  • Home Based Primary Care
  • Hematology/Oncology
  • Infectious Disease/Antimicrobial Stewardship
  • Inpatient Surgery – General, Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Neurosurgery and Orthopedic
  • Internal Medicine II
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit
  • Pain
  • Polytrauma
  • Psychiatry
  • Rehab Medicine
  • Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
  • Surgery Intensive Care Unit/Nutrition
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