PGY2 Pharmacy Training
Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program Offers Comprehensive Training in Clinical and Academic Areas
University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center, a campus of UH Regional Hospitals offers one position in the PGY2 Internal Medicine Residency Program with an academia focus. This shared residency position extends between UH Geauga Medical Center and Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Cultivating Educators
The PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency with an academia focus is designed to cultivate practitioner/educators by developing the following:
- A strong foundation of teaching skills
- Clinical expertise
- Development of the ability to balance practice and academic responsibilities
Residents will participate in the provision of direct patient care on a medicine rounding team, antimicrobial stewardship program and medicine non-rounding team. An average of one day per week is spent in an academic setting. This allows the resident to develop course directorship, faculty development and academic leadership skills.
Resident Responsibilities
Residents in the PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy program with an academia focus will be required to:
- Attend a national pharmacy organization meeting
- Complete a pharmacy practice research project that will be submitted for publication, as well as presented at a regional residency conference
- Develop educational skills through participation in on-campus academic rotations
- Investigate, research and report adverse drug events
- Participate in the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee process, evaluate requests for new drug usage and old formulary drug relevance, review therapeutic classes for relevance, and assist in updating hospital formulary
- Teach pharmacy students from a number of pharmacy colleges
- Provide clinical pharmacy services (drug information, drug therapy monitoring, patient-specific consultations, healthcare staff and patient education) in direct patient care while completing required and elective rotations
- Provide pharmacy staffing service once every 4th weekend
- Serve as an informational and patient problem-solving resource for clinical staff pharmacists
Practice Site Experiences
Approximately 80 percent of the residency will be spent at the practice site. The focus of the practice site experiences will include:
- Developing patient assessment and therapeutic regimen design skills while rounding with the interprofessional Internal Medicine Service
- Educating pharmacists and other healthcare providers on the evidence-based treatment of common diseases encountered on an Internal Medicine Service
Academic Site Experiences
The remaining 20 percent of the resident's time will be spent teaching pharmacy students and residents, completing on-campus rotations that have a focus in providing the resident with a wide variety of academic experiences, and fulfilling teaching responsibilities. Specifically, academic experiences will include:
- Attending college and department meetings
- Completing an academic leadership rotation
- Participating in committee work as assigned
- Teaching large and small groups as assigned, including co-directorship of a course
Required Learning Experiences
In addition to fulfilling the residency program goals, residents will also be required to participate in a program orientation, complete research training, actively participate in program recruitment efforts and engage in self-evaluations and assessments. Required learning experiences include:
- Academic leadership
- Academic orientation (including attendance at the AACP Annual Meeting)
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Drug information
- Faculty development
- Instructional design and delivery
- Internal medicine - rounding and non-rounding services
- Pharmacy service
- Practice management
- Research
- Transitions of Care
- Elective opportunities
- Academic writing
- Ambulatory care
- Critical care medicine
- Emergency medicine
- Practice management
- Residency design and conduct
- Others
Application Instructions
Application materials include a letter of intent, curriculum vitae, academic transcripts and three letters of recommendation. Final application deadline of January 2nd.
Contact Information
To learn more about the PGY 2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy residency program or the application process, contact the program director:
Travis Grey, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Internal Medicine
PGY-2 Residency Program Director
University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center
13207 Ravenna Road
Chardon, OH 44024
440-214-3337
Travis.Grey@UHhospitals.org