PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy
The PGY2 pharmacy residency in transplant trains residents to practice as clinical specialists across all phases of transplantation through collaboration with the multidisciplinary transplant service. The resident will gain experience in a broad range of transplantation settings, including opportunities for teaching and research, and develop their own patient-centered, evidence-based practice. This program will prepare the resident to practice either in an in or outpatient setting and work with all types of solid organ transplants.
The PGY2 Residency consists of a series of learning experiences that span a 52 week period. Specific learning experiences and goals will be accomplished in discrete blocks of time, while others will occur longitudinally throughout the duration of the residency. Residency time will be generally structured as follows:
| Residency duration |
52 weeks |
| Orientation/Training |
2 weeks (may be incorporated into a rotation for internal candidates) |
| Interviews/Holidays/Time Off |
14 days plus 3 interview days (not a contiguous block) |
| Residency Learning Experiences |
50 weeks (minus time off/project days/conferences) |
Project Days
|
2 weeks (10 days) |
Transplant-related conference
(ie. AST Fellows Symposium, American
Transplant Congress, ISHLT Annual Meeting) |
1 week (5 days) |
Required Rotational Experiences: 42 weeks
1. Kidney Transplant
|
4 weeks |
2. Liver Transplant
|
4 weeks
|
| 3. Heart Transplant |
4 weeks |
| 4. Kidney and Liver Transplant Clinic |
4 weeks |
5. Heart Transplant Clinic
|
4 weeks
|
6. Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Heart Transplant
|
4 weeks
|
7. Transplant Infectious Disease
|
4 weeks
|
| 8. Transplant Quality and Data |
2 weeks |
Elective Rotational Experiences: 20 weeks
A total of 20 weeks; can be split into 2 or 4 week rotations based on resident's interest and development plan. Part II of a required rotation will expect the resident to take ownership of the service with a focus on precepting pharmacy learners.
You must select at least one of the following:
- Kidney Transplant II
- Liver Transplant II
- Heart Transplant II
You may select any of the following:
- Kidney and Liver Transplant Clinic II
- Heart Transplant Clinic II
- Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Heart Transplant II
- Kidney and Liver Transplant (cover both services)
- Critical Care (ie. MICU, SICU, CCU, CTICU)
- End Stage Lung Disease
- End Stage Liver Disease
- End Stage Kidney Disease/Dialysis
- Transplant Hepatology Consult Service
- Transplant Nephrology Consult Service
- Transplant Endocrinology Clinic
- Transplant Infectious Disease Clinic
- Other/Repeat (with RPD approval)
Longitudinal Experiences:
- Kidney and Liver Transplant Clinic
- Year-long coverage of Monday Kidney and Liver Transplant clinic caring for pre- and post-transplant recipients and living donors.
- Residency project (2)
- Longitudinal project focused on clinic topic
- Cost management project/MUE
- Submit research project to transplant-related meeting and publication to transplant or pharmacy journal (at least 2 drafts of manuscript completed prior to graduation)
- Medical Review Board, Recipient Review Committee, Donor Advocacy Panel, Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) meetings throughout the year
- Learn requirements of transplant quality programs and regulatory requirements
- Education and Opportunities to precept:
- Teaching Certificate Program
- Peer-review Journal Publications
- Nursing and Physician In-services
- Clinical Case Conference Presentations
- Transplant Journal Club Presentations
- Continuing education presentations
- PharmD students
- PGY1 residents
- Local pharmacy school didactic lectures
- Administrative reports/responsibilities
- Supervise PGY1 residents and APPE pharmacy students
- Participation at Transplant QAPI meetings
- Participation at Transplant listing meetings
- Staffing:*
- Two shifts every third weekend and approximately 1-2 weekday shifts per month covering the transplant service (12 day stretches required)
- On call formulary pager coverage (schedule to be determined)
*Any staffing shift including night shift may be filled at discretion of residency director
PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Requirements for Graduation
- Educational checklist complete
- One hour pharmacy grand rounds or ACPE accredited lecture (1)
- 30-minute clinical case conference (2)
- Nursing in-services (2)
- Physician in-services (2)
- Lecture at school of pharmacy (1)
- Career related community service (2)
- Contribution to Pharmacy Department Bulletin or pharmacy related publication (1)
- Epic Tickets (3)
- P&T monograph or class review or protocol creation or update (1)
- Cost Management/Medication Use Evaluation project completed
- Longitudinal project completed
- Transplant Quality Assurance Process Improvement (QAPI) presentation (1)
- Peer review at least two manuscripts with preceptor (2)
- Manuscript suitable for publication (Complete manuscript incorporating at least two rounds of preceptor feedback)
- Abstract related to transplant submitted to a meeting (1)
- Portfolio complete (Completed documents for each checklist item uploaded to resident portfolio)
- Completion of disease state appendix
- Completion of Landmark Journal Club series
- Achieved at least 80% of ASHP residency objectives (Preceptor marked as "achieved" on at least two occasions or other documentation demonstrating achievement of the objective as evaluated by the RPC/RPD)
- Compliant with all pharmacist mandatory requirements (e.g. current pharmacist license in good standing on file, completion of all mandatory training)
The learning experiences will include a series of learning activities designed to expose the resident to many facets of pharmacy practice with guidance from the preceptor. An individual resident plan and calendar will be developed for each resident.
This residency site agrees that no person at this site will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.
Note: We are unable to accept applicants with F1 status/OPTs and unable to sponsor F1-B visas at this time.
