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The application deadline is January 5th each year.
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 residency year, residents must staff for a total of 400
hours. Pharmacy practice responsibilities include staffing in
decentralized or central 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. For PGY1 residents, this
commitment is fulfilled through staffing every third weekend and for
three concentrated weeks distributed over the course of the year.
Additionally, residents are also responsible for staffing during one of
three major holiday blocks (Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years). The
requirements may be changed based on the needs of the department
annually.
Salary and Benefits
PGY1 salary - $35,000
Each resident will receive two lab coats, office space, a tablet
computer, travel reimbursement for selected professional meetings, ten
days of vacation per year, ten days of paid holiday leave and five
personal days to attend professional meetings and conduct
interviews. 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 Inter Faith Council 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 IRB, 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, SERC 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.
Residency Rotations
Practicing pharmaceutical care is the major focus of the UNC
Hospitals’ PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program. The modeling process is
utilized to expose the resident to various examples on how to provide
appropriate care to diverse patient populations. This will assure
first-hand appreciation and knowledge of the pharmacist’s
responsibilities and will help to mold each resident’s unique style as
integral members of the health care team.
Each pharmacy practice rotation is one calendar month in duration.
Certain core competencies at UNC Hospitals are required in order to
maintain ASHP accreditation and for the resident to obtain a global
experience to various patient populations where pharmacists are
providing care. These specific rotations are:
Medicine
2 months
Critical Care
Medicine 1 month
Surgery
1 month
Pediatrics
1 month
Ambulatory
Care
1 month
Drug
Information
1 month
Pharmacy Administration 1 month
Elective
Rotations
2 months
All residents also have a one month orientation to UNC Hospitals in
July, where they will be exposed and trained to the integral operations
necessary for the entire year. Each December will be spent in a
research rotation, focusing on learning study design, statistics, and
working on the required pharmacotherapy project and publication.
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. 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. Mentors of PGY1 residents participate in a program-wide
resident progression committee that monitors the growth and development
of residents over the course of the 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 resident will field medicine, surgery, oncology and pediatric
questions. 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.
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. A majority of PGY1 residents go on to complete PGY2
residencies in specialty fields. From there, 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 in either fellowships or graduate studies.
We believe strongly that the opportunities for a resident after
completion of a UNC Training Program are abundant and broad.
Annual Residency Trip
Another highlight of the year is our residency trip. The residency
trip usually allows time for the PGY1 residents to visit 2-3 residency
programs. There is no geographic limitation but residents usually
choose institutions that are within driving distance. They contact the
programs and set up tours, luncheons, etc. with the host institution.
This is always a fun trip and it allows for resident bonding and the
creation of new professional contacts. Afterward, residents usually
take a weekend break and go to the beach, hiking, whitewater rafting,
shopping, etc. They then report back to our program about the trip,
which helps enrich both the residency program and the department of
pharmacy.
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, coordinator and/or mentor to ensure
progress on long term goals.
The application deadline is January 5th each
year.
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