PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency

 

Required Rotations (10 months, blocks of 4-5 weeks each):

• Orientation
• Emergency Medicine: Introduction to Triage
• Emergency Medicine: Intermediate Triage
• Emergency Medicine: Advanced Triage
• Emergency Medicine: Overnights
• Emergency Medicine: Precepting
• Advanced Emergency Medicine
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine – Cook Children’s Medical Center (Fort Worth, TX)
• Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit
• Toxicology

Critical Care Selective Rotation (1 month, 4-5 weeks):

• Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
• Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit
• Medical Intensive Care Unit

Elective Rotations (1 month, 4-5 weeks):

• Community Emergency Medicine
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Infectious Diseases
• May select any other critical care selective rotation
• May repeat pediatric emergency medicine rotation based on availability

Longitudinal Experiences:

• Major Research Project
• Leadership & Medication Safety
• Staffing
• Teaching: didactic & precepting
• Toxicology Rounds

Residents have the opportunity to provide multidisciplinary teaching in a variety of platforms including, but not limited to, the following:

• Emergency Medicine Resident Conference
• Emergency Medicine Nursing Residency Orientation
• Emergency Medicine Providers Meeting
• University of North Texas Integrated Pharmacotherapy of Critical Care and Toxicology Course

Residents are required to provide a 45-minute ACPE accredited CE to the pharmacy department.

Residents will have the opportunity to mentor and precept PGY1 residents or pharmacy students at least once during the residency year.

The Emergency Medicine PGY2 utilizes a “flipped” research model. The resident will serve in a lead role to develop an original research project and complete a research project started by a previous resident. The resident will present the results of their project as a platform presentation at ALCALDE Southwest Leadership Conference in the spring of each year. A written manuscript is required to be submitted to the program director prior to completion of the program and is highly encouraged to be submitted for publication.

Other projects include, but are not limited to:

• A policy or guideline review or development
• A medication-use evaluation or quality improvement project

Staffing:

The resident will participate in longitudinal staffing approximately every third weekend rotating between emergency medicine specialist and critical care order verification roles. The resident will also staff one major and one minor holiday

On-Call Program:

The resident will serve as a remote Manager On-Call to review and respond to daytime and evening requests for non-formulary and high cost medications. The resident will participate in this program in one-week intervals approximately every 6-7 weeks.

Leadership:

The EM PGY2 resident will participate in select hospital and emergency medicine committees throughout the year. This may include participation in the following:

• Drug Shortage Committee
• Code Blue Committee
• Pediatrics Committee
• Stroke Steering Committee
• Pharmacy Residency Committees (e.g. Wellness, Research, Seminar, Preceptor Development)
• Others based on resident’s interest