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GENERAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM INFORMATION
Teaching Opportunities
Our teaching experience is provided through the University of North
Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The residents have been involved
in this program for over 10 years. Each resident will earn an
appointment with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a Clinical
Instructor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential
Education and serve as a teaching assistant for the Pharmaceutical Care
Labs courses. You will be working with second and third professional
year students. A core group of 10 students will be assigned to each
resident to engage in therapeutic case discussions and to instruct in
the basics of physical assessment, patient counseling and written and
verbal communications. Five hours are to be committed per week, which
encompasses teaching, preparation, and grading assignments.
Additionally, residents are now being offered the option to pursue
attainment of a teaching certificate through activities in the
Pharmaceutical Care Lab (PCL) and other longitudinal requirements over
the course of the year. An application process is necessary to join the
teaching certificate program, and if accepted, residents will be
provided with guidance through lectures, portfolio development, and PCL
participation to attain their certificate.
Pharmacy Practice / Staffing Component
Residents will receive training and orientation to the
department's services during their first few weeks of the program. Over
the course of the academic year, residents must staff for a total of
400 hours. Pharmacy practice responsibilities include staffing in
decentralized pharmacist positions. Activities include, but are not
limited to, verifying patient-specific orders and medications,
providing pharmacokinetic consults when requested, answering in-depth
drug information questions, attending all adult codes as the pharmacy
member of the code team, providing patient education and solving
pharmacotherapy situations as they may arise. PGY2’s fulfill this
requirement through staffing every third weekend and through methods
determined by the PGY2 Program Directors. Additionally, residents are
also responsible for staffing during one of three major holiday blocks
(Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years). Residents will also
participate in the after-hours pharmacy clinical on-call program. The
requirements may be changed based on the needs of the department
annually.
Salary and Benefits
PGY2 - $37,500
Residents receive two lab coats, office space, tablet computers,
travel reimbursement for selected professional meetings,
and 15 days of paid time off (PTO). Residents are offered
medical, dental, disability and life insurance policies. In
addition, residents are given an academic faculty appointment as a
Clinical Instructor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. As faculty
members and employees of UNC hospitals, residents are eligible for
discounts throughout the UNC Campus and in the community.
Community Outreach
The IFC Shelter is a 30-bed facility that provides temporary,
overnight housing to those in need. Our residents volunteer at the
clinic at least 2-3 times during the year, helping to provide care to
the patients. The IFC shelter provides housing, meals, and weekly free,
general and psychiatric clinics to its residents. Each clinic is
staffed by a clinic coordinator, nurse, physician, pharmacy student,
and pharmacist. This is an excellent opportunity to help
disadvantaged patients with medication-related issues, physicians with
medication-related decisions, and to precept students during the
medication dispensing and counseling process.
Residency Research and Publication
Each resident is expected to participate in a project that
enhances these learning objectives: developing criteria, seeking
approval of the criteria from the medical staff, collecting and
summarizing the data, analyzing the results, and presenting the
findings. To fulfill this requirement at UNC Hospitals, each resident
must complete a pharmacotherapy project, a medication use evaluation,
and an administrative project. The ideas, which will be identified
early in the year, will arise from interactions with the UNC Hospitals’
pharmacists and the UNC School of Pharmacy faculty. The pharmacotherapy
project is a year-long activity that is designed to be a learning
experience. Each resident will present to a research committee the
initial design, the finalized protocol, the interim data, and the final
results. Feedback from the Residency Research Committee is provided at
each stage to enhance the learning portion of it. Parts of these
research projects will be presented at the UHC Annual Meeting or at
specified subspecialty meetings as determined by the residency program
director. In addition to conducting and presenting research, residents
are required to submit a manuscript for publication over the course of
the year. This publication may be of research projects, clinical
interventions, or drug/therapeutic updates based upon work done during
the residency academic year.
Mentorship
The residency program at UNC has a strong history of
mentorship, and this ideal is built into nearly all aspects of
residency training. Each resident will have multiple mentors for
multiple purposes. Mentors are chosen by the residents for research
projects, presentation development, and personal mentorship. The
personal mentor exists to guide the resident through the academic year.
PGY2 residents are required to select a mentor outside of their
specialty area. The mentor is an individual who can answer questions,
provide feedback, and counsel residents on how to approach the many
challenging parts of the residency year.
Clinical On-Call Program
The department of pharmacy provides an on-call pager service to our
physicians, nurses, and other clinical staff. While this service
does not have an in house on-call component the residents do
participate in answering on-call drug-information requests 24 hours a
day. The types of questions that are referred to the service are those
that can require significant time to research, or a specialized
knowledge base. Each resident will rotate through primary on-call
responsibilities. While on-call, the resident will be available over a
24-hour period and will have specified back-up pharmacists to assist
with difficult questions if needed.
Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) or other
specialty certifications
Our residency program strongly promotes BCPS certification and many of
our residents complete the BCPS exam during their PGY2 year. Each
year, interested residents form a study group and outline topics to be
discussed on a weekly basis. Each participant is assigned a topic, and
he or she is responsible for explaining the topic material to their
fellow residents. It is a great way to get to know fellow residents and
learn from one another. Fees for the exam are not reimbursed by the
department presently.
Post-residency plans
While the focus of our residencies is on providing patient care, our
residents leave our programs and continue on to a variety of different
positions. Many have taken on roles as clinical pharmacists nationwide
and even worldwide. In these roles, a majority of our graduates are now
involved in residency training at their own institutions. Others have
gone on to successful academic careers at schools of pharmacy
nationwide, or have gone on to do further specialty training as
fellows, or graduate students. We believe strongly that the
opportunities for a resident after completion of a UNC Training Program
are abundant and broad.
Resident Evaluations
Evaluations are a large part of the residency process. At UNC, we
utilize the ASHP-endorsed online evaluation system, Resitrak.
Evaluations are built for each individual rotation, as well as for
presentations, research, and staffing components of the program.
Additionally, quarterly gobal evaluations are conducted with the
program director and coordinator of each residency program to ensure
progress on long term goals.
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