Post-Graduate Year Two (PGY2) Critical Care Residency Program

Baptist Hospital’s Post-Graduate Year Two (PGY2) Critical Care Pharmacy Residency program is a 12-month ASHP pre-candidate program that provides highly specialized training for residents in all aspects of critical care. The critical care pharmacy residency is based at the Baptist Hospital campus, with opportunities to gain experience throughout the Baptist Health Care system. Residents will have opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care that improves medication therapy. The PGY2 Critical Care program is designed to ensure residents possess competencies that qualify them for clinical pharmacist positions and eligibility for attainment of board certification in critical care.

The PGY2 Critical Care program is designed to build on general PGY1 pharmacist competencies and provide advanced experiences to further develop expertise in critical care medicine. Residents will gain critical care experience through participation in:

• Multidisciplinary rounds
• Cardiac/respiratory arrests
• Stroke alerts
• Rapid Response Alerts
• Sepsis Alerts
• Rapid sequence intubations
• Procedural sedations

Additionally, residents will conduct prospective medication order review, answer drug information questions, and participate in multiple committees affecting critical care medicine. They will be required to complete a research project and will have opportunities to assist in precepting pharmacy students as well as PGY1 residents. By the end of the program, the resident will have been immersed within the critical care team and be trained to handle a wide variety of disease states, as well as prioritize patient care in a dynamic clinical environment.

The resident will also complete a teaching certificate program offered through the University of Auburn if a teaching certificate was not obtained during a PGY1 residency program.

• Competitive Salary
• Medical Plan with prescription drug coverage
• Dental and Vision Plans
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability Coverage, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Coverage
• ACLS/PALS certification
• Professional Meeting Attendance and Travel Reimbursement
ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
• Regional Residency Conference

The PGY2 residency program core rotations include:

• Orientation – 6 weeks (minimum required 4 weeks)
• Medical/Neuro ICU – 6 weeks
• Surgical ICU – 6 weeks
• Cardiovascular ICU – 6 weeks
• Progressive Care Unit – 6 weeks
• Emergency Medicine – 6 weeks
• Research – 4 weeks

Longitudinal rotations include:

• Code Response
• Rapid Response
• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Nutritional Support
• Research Project
• Practice Management/Continuous Quality Improvement
• Attendance and active participation at multi-disciplinary health system meetings including but not limited to Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety Committee, Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, and Pain Stewardship Committee
• Medication use evaluation, drug class review, protocol development
• Poster presentation at ASHP Midyear Meeting
• Department newsletter development/editing
• Student and PGY1 Resident Precepting
• Teaching certificate program if applicable
• Pharmacy Practice (Staffing)
• Weekend rotation and 1-2 health system recognized holidays

Elective Experiences: (Resident to select three elective rotations – each 4 weeks in length)

• Pulmonology
• Nephrology
• Infectious Disease
• Emergency Medicine II
• Neurology
• Palliative Care/Hospice
• Pharmacy Informatics

Residency Administration

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