Learn more about our PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program

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Welcome! 

Thanks for your interest in our program!

If you will be attending the midyear clinical meeting in Anaheim, CA, we will be recruiting via ASHP’s Personal Placement Service and would love to speak with you on site. Additional information is available here: https://midyear.ashp.org/pps-candidates

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Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus (IFMC) offers an ASHP-accredited PGY2 Emergency Medicine (EM) Pharmacy Residency Program that uniquely combines the academic rigor of a university-based hospital, the complexities of tertiary referral center, and the family atmosphere of a community program.

Graduates of the IFMC PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency program will be empowered to treat and appropriately triage a wide range of ED patients from complex acute illnesses to routine ambulatory concerns. Emphasis is placed on creating well-rounded emergency medicine clinicians who not only excel at the provision of bedside care as an integrated member of the interdisciplinary emergency medicine team, but also acquire the skills necessary to conduct high-quality clinical research, In addition, the resident will acquire the experiences necessary to exercise leadership in emergency medicine pharmacy practice at a local and healthcare-system level and provide experiential and didactic education to a variety of healthcare professionals and those training to be healthcare professionals.

Curriculum

I. Orientation (1 week for internal residents, 3 weeks for external residents)

  • Inova New (Inova's new team member orientation held on the first day of residency)
  • Comprehensive orientation to the operational and clinical services provided by the Department of Pharmacy; includes departmental competencies, aseptic technique, online learning modules
  • Orientation to the residency program, including the residency manual and policies, The Standard (including the purpose statement), applicable competency areas, goals and objectives (and applicable Appendix for PGY2 residents), and required and elective learning experiences
  • Electronic medical record (i.e., EPIC) training (typically during the week of Inova New)
  • Resident lecture series, to include a session on well-being and resilience
  • All residents: BLS, ACLS certification if not currently certified
  • For PGY2 residents: Internal residents must only complete orientation to the residency program and the session on well-being and resilience

II. Clinical Rotations

Residents will be exposed to a wide variety of required and elective experiences, 5 weeks in duration unless noted otherwise below, as well as longitudinal experiences that last the duration of residency. The schedule will be determined by the resident and the residency program director during the orientation period but can always be subject to change.

PGY2 Emergency Medicine Program (5 weeks each unless otherwise noted)

Required Elective*

Emergency Medicine

  • Intro to Adult EM (8 weeks)
  • Pediatric EM (2-4 weeks; dependent on duration of orientation)
  • Adult/Pediatric II (9 weeks)
  • Adult/Pediatric III (10 weeks)
 

Adult Critical Care (if not taken as required)

  • CVICU
  • MSICU
  • NSICU
  • STICU

Adult Critical Care (1 required)

  • Cardiovascular ICU (CVICU)
  • Medical-Surgical ICU (MSICU)
  • Neuroscience ICU (NSICU)
  • Surgical-Trauma ICU (STICU)
 

Cardiology [Cardiac ICU (CICU)] 

Pediatrics

  • General Pediatrics
  • Pediatric ICU (PICU)
Toxicology (National Capitol Poison Center) 

Infectious Diseases

Behavioral Health

 

III. Decentralized Pharmacy Practice (~42 weeks)

  • Starting in September (2) 8-hour shifts every 3rd weekend in ED (224 hours)
  • (1) 8-hour shift on one major and one minor holiday (additional 16 hours)

IV. Practice Management (48-50 weeks dependent on duration of orientation)

  • Protocol/guideline development
  • Participate in interprofessional committees and workgroups related to EM practice
  • Develop pharmacy team training/education related to EM initiatives 
  • Develop and deliver an educational presentation for providers and/or nursing
  • Participate in the EM team’s Fun Fact Friday education (once/quarter)
  • Assist with nursing education (@ least 2 presentations)
  • Resident will have one project day per month (August-June) to assist with completion of practice management activities

V. Research (51 weeks)

  • Includes IRB submission, presentation of results at regional/national conference, and completion of manuscript suitable for publication
  • Includes 4 project days (1/quarter)

VI. Teaching and Precepting

  • Serve as co-preceptor for an APPE student of PGY1 resident during Adult/Pediatric EM II
  • Serve as primary preceptor for an APPE student or PGY1 resident during Adult/Pediatric EM III
  • Faculty appointment at VCU School of Pharmacy - IFH Campus
  • Co-facilitate the VCU Foundation Skills Lab focusing on resuscitation

VII. Required Projects/Certifications

  • Continuing education presentation, ACPE accredited
  • Medication Use Evaluation (12-week block scheduled in Q3)
  • Case presentation
  • Topic-based presentation
  • PALS • ATLS (audit)

How to Apply

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