General Information
- PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program began in 2013, with first graduates in 2014
- Two PGY1 residency positions available
- PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program began in 2017, with first graduate in 2018
- One PGY2 residency position available
- Most residents’ initial post-residency positions are at Stormont Vail Health
- Many have moved on to other health systems to take more advanced clinical or administrative roles
- Past residents have pursued PGY2 programs including
- Emergency Medicine
- Cardiology
- Oncology
- Infectious Disease
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacotherapy
- Many graduates of our residency programs still work at SVH!
Our institution provides access to:
- EBSCO®
- Lexicomp®
- UpToDate®
- Sanford Guide®
- NeoFax® Pediatrics
- Hale’s Medications & Mother’s Milk®
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
We have a meeting at the beginning of the year to discuss research project ideas. Residents can choose from this list of options or create their own project. Residents work with at least one project preceptor in the practice area to finalize their project protocols. This preceptor is a project mentor who helps the resident complete their research poster, presentation, and manuscript.
Stormont Vail hosts both interns and externs
- Interns
- Students employed by Stormont Vail Health
- Residents will coach/precept during weekend and evening staffing shifts on tasks including:
- Antibiotic therapeutic monitoring and dosing (vancomycin/aminoglycosides)
- Antiarrhythmic medication monitoring and management
- Medication adjustments per standing orders and protocols
- STAT calls, CODE Blue, Rapid response events
- Externs
- Rotation-specific IPPE and APPE students through The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
- Residents will coach/precept while on rotation, potentially serving as the primary preceptor in a layered-learning manner
Our residents are provided with remote access to our network and electronic medical record. However, all activities and hours required for residency completion must be on site. Residents may work on projects or other unsupervised activities at home using their remote access.
We do not have either an at-home or in-house on-call program at this time.
Residents may choose to pick up additional shifts at Stormont Vail Hospital. Any shifts a resident works as a PRN pharmacist are paid at current PRN pharmacist rates in addition to their normal resident salary. We do not allow residents to moonlight (have paid positions with other organizations) during their residency.
PGY1 Pharmacy
Yes! If you are graduating late because of a master’s program or other graduate education and you match with our program, we will adjust your residency program start date to accommodate your delayed graduation date. As a resident, you will still be required to complete 52 weeks of training; therefore your PGY1 completion will also be delayed.
Residents are free from staffing commitments during their first 10-12 weeks of residency (usually until September)
Staffing Requirements include:
- One major holiday (Christmas or New Year’s Day)
- 8-hour shift
- 28 Evening Staffing shifts
- One evening each week starting around week 12
- 4 hours per shift
- 14 Total evening shifts
- Seven Clinical shifts (8 hours per shift)
- Residents able to choose remaining clinical weekends after November
- Seven Operational shifts (8 hours per shift)
- Residents able to choose remaining operational weekends after April
- Averages out to be every ~3rd weekend
- Residents give one comp day prior to weekends worked
- No scheduled staffing on evenings during the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, ASHP Midyear, and Midwest Pharmacy Resident Conference
- Seven Clinical shifts (8 hours per shift)
Residents will complete:
- Orientation (2 weeks)
- 11x Clinical block rotations
- 4 weeks per rotation
- 6x Longitudinal rotations
- Variable duration, but multiple-months long
- 3 weeks of independent practice
- Residents may choose activities that are most beneficial / valuable to them.
- Can be geared toward certificate course completion, research projects, or seeking more/further exposure to other areas in pharmacy
- Scheduled around ASHP midyear to prevent breaking up multiple rotations
To successfully complete our PGY1 program, residents must:
- Obtain a Kansas pharmacist license
- Complete all orientation and recurring training requirements for Stormont Vail Health employees, pharmacy employees, and pharmacy residents
- Complete all required block and longitudinal rotations, four additional elective rotations, and all staffing requirements
- Achieve competencies required by ASHP for PGY1 Pharmacy residency programs
- Complete a teaching certificate program or other professional certificate program (reimbursed)
- Complete 52 weeks of residency training
Registration and travel reimbursement will be provided for:
- ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
- Spring meeting to present research project
- Typically, Midwest Pharmacy Residency Conference
Further professional leave may be provided for:
- Residents actively participating in a professional organization committee
- Residents giving a presentation at a professional meeting
Residents may attend other professional meetings at their discretion so long as attendance does not interfere with completion of the residency program or interfere with required attendance on rotations.
We require three recommendation letters, and we would like for at least one of them to be from a health system preceptor if possible. If you have not had a health system experience, you may choose whichever letter writers you feel will provide the best overall picture of your professional experiences, accomplishments, and progress. When available, we like to see letters that capture your experience from a variety of perspectives. These may be employers, preceptors, school or college of pharmacy faculty, or other professional colleagues.
We allow a virtual interview option for applicants outside the region. We would prefer to meet you in person, but we understand the degree of expense for travel and the application process.
PGY2 Emergency Medicine
Residents are required to staff one major holiday (twelve hours on New Year’s, Thanksgiving or Christmas), one minor holiday (twelve hours on Memorial Day), one evening a week (four hours per week), and every third weekend (12 hours per day, 2 days per weekend). All staffing is completed in the emergency department satellite pharmacy. Residents are provided one comp day during the week after staffing the weekend.
The start date of the PGY2 is slightly flexible depending on the candidate’s date of completion for their PGY1 residency program. The PGY2 resident is expected to be capable of staffing independently by the end of August.
Starting with orientation, each required rotation is four to five weeks in length. The resident has ten required rotations and three elective rotations. EMD Advanced Independent Practice is always the last rotation.
| Required Rotations | Elective Rotations |
|---|---|
| Orientation | Inpatient Psychiatry |
| Emergency Medicine I | Infectious Diseases |
| Emergency Medicine II | Preceptorship |
| Emergency Medicine III | Medical Intensive Care II |
| Cardiology | Surgical Intensive Care II |
| Medical ICU | |
| Surgical ICU | |
| Pediatric ICU/Pediatrics | |
| Transitions EMED to Critical Care |
* Precepting Objectives are objectives related to precepting which will be added to a different required or elective rotation when the PGY2 resident overlaps with a learner (a P4 pharmacy student or PGY1 pharmacy resident).
Required longitudinal rotations are built in throughout the entire residency year.
| Required Longitudinal |
|---|
| Leadership and Safe Medication Practice |
| Research Project |
| Staffing |
In addition to required rotations and longitudinal rotations, weekly Thursday afternoon meetings are held in conjunction with the PGY1 residents to present journal clubs, case presentations, or a pharmacy grand rounds. All residents present on a rotating basis.
Example calendar
| Start Date | End Date | Rotation Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Week 5 | Orientation |
| Week 6 | Week 7 | EMD 1 |
| Week 8 | Week 11 | PICU/Pediatrics |
| Week 12 | Week 15 | Medical ICU |
| Week 16 | Week 19 | Elective |
| Week 20 | Week 23 | Surgical ICU |
| Week 24 | Week 24 | Midyear |
| Week 25 | Week 28 | Transitions of Care |
| Week 29 | Week 32 | EMD II |
| Week 33 | Week 36 | Elective |
| Week 37 | Week 40 | EMD III |
| Week 41 | Week 44 | Cardiology |
| Week 45 | Week 48 | Elective |
| Week 49 | Week 52 | Advanced Independent Practice |
An effort is made for the PGY2 resident to precept an APPE student during their Advanced Independent Practice rotation each June.
The transitions of care rotation follows the care of patients from the emergency department to the inpatient critical care units. A typical day would have the resident rounding on ICU patients in the morning and working in the emergency department in the afternoon monitoring for new ICU admissions. The resident is not required to follow all ICU patients, but only those admitted through the emergency department the previous day. The goal of this rotation is for the resident to see how the care provided in the emergency department effects patients the following days while in the ICU.
The Advanced Independent Practice rotation is the last rotation a resident will complete prior to completing their residency year. Think of this rotation as a test drive of holding a full time emergency medicine pharmacist position. Preceptors are always available and topic discussions will be scheduled, however the resident takes the driver’s seat and preceptors are there to help. An effort is made for an APPE student to be on rotation in the emergency department at the same time for the PGY2 resident to practice the precepting skills they have developed.
To successfully complete the PGY2 emergency medicine program, residents must:
- Obtain/maintain Kansas licensure
- Complete all required, elective and longitudinal rotations
- Completed all training requirements for Stormont Vail Health employees, pharmacy employees and pharmacy residents
- Achieve all competencies are required by ASHP for PGY2 emergency medicine residency programs
- Assigned committee and meeting attendance
- Participate in residency recruiting events
- Complete 52 weeks of residency training
A comprehensive residency completion checklist can be provided at your request.
Stormont will provide registration and travel reimbursement to attend the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and a spring meeting to present the results of your research project – either Midwest Pharmacy Residency Conference or Kansas Pharmacy Residency Conference. The PGY2 resident may attend one additional professional meetings of their choice if education funds are available.
Virtual interviews will be offered for applicants outside the region. We would prefer to meet you in person, but we understand the financial burden for application process and travel expenses.