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The Pharmacy Residency (PGY-1) is a one-year postgraduate training program that provides training in a variety of areas of pharmacy practice. Emphasis is placed on the development of clinical skills through direct interaction with patients, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers. Graduates will be prepared for a successful career in multiple adult acute care settings, ambulatory care, or further training in a PGY-2 residency program. Pharmacists completing this residency will be competent and confident practitioners of direct patient care in multiple environments, equipped to meet the challenges of current and future pharmacy practice. Residents will be accountable for achieving optimal drug therapy outcomes as members of the health care team.
These pharmacists will exercise skill in educating other health care professionals, students, patients, and the community on drug-related topics. Residents will demonstrate a high level of professionalism by following a personal philosophy of independent practice, monitoring their own performance, and will contribute to the profession. Residents will gain experience in a variety of core practice areas including: internal medicine, emergency medicine, family practice, critical care, infectious diseases, anticoagulation clinic, diabetes clinic, quality improvement/medication safety, pharmacy practice management, inpatient unit-based pharmacy practice, and research. Elective experiential opportunities include: neurologic intensive care, cardio-vascular intensive care, surgical intensive care, medical intensive care, pain management, psychiatry and hematology/oncology.
Residents will gain experience teaching by serving as the primary preceptor for at least one pharmacy student and completing either the teaching certificate program offered by Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) or a leadership certificate offered through Cleveland Clinic. Residents will also provide continuing education programs for the pharmacy staff, lead at least one Morbidity and Mortality conference, and provide community service by delivering medication education sessions to cardiac rehabilitation patients.
Residents will work every other weekend throughout the year which includes rotating between staffing and the High-risk Patient – Clinical Generalist model. Additionally, the resident will develop and complete an original research project. The project will be presented at a variety of local, regional, and national professional conferences, including ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and the Ohio Pharmacy Residency Conference, and a manuscript of publishable quality will be prepared.
CONTACT Pharmacy Residency Director Lawrence A. Frazee, PharmD, BCPS Cleveland Clinic Akron General Department of Pharmacy 1 Akron General Ave., Akron, Ohio 44307 email: frazeeL@ccf.org
Application Requirements for PGY1 Programs:
Interested applicants must be PharmD graduates of accredited college of pharmacy, be eligible for licensure in the State of Ohio (or Florida if applicable), and submit the standard application materials through PhORCAS (i.e. Letter of Intent, CV, the 3 standard reference forms in PhORCAS, official college transcripts), along with:
We request a minimum of one (two is preferred) of your three references should come from a preceptor who you have worked with in a clinical setting, related to an APPE in acute or ambulatory care. The clinical preceptor should be able to comment on your scope of responsibility, total patient load, level of autonomy, clinical abilities, and organizational and time management skills. All 3 reference writers should use the standard PhORCAS template to submit their candidate recommendation.
A response to the following essay statement is required for acceptance. The essay response should be no longer than one page in length. An application will not be reviewed if this statement is missing. Please note that the essay is separate from your letter of intent. Reflecting on your APPE rotations, please provide a piece of critical feedback you have received from one of your preceptors on a direct patient care rotation. Explain how you have incorporated this feedback into your practice and/ or worked to improve in this area.
Please submit all application materials via Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS). Deadline for receipt of these materials to be considered for an on-site interview is January 1, 2021 by 11:59 PM. For the PGY-2 residency programs (Ambulatory Care, Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Informatics, Medication-Use Safety and Policy, Oncology, Pediatrics and Solid Organ Transplant), a Pharmacy (PGY-1) Residency or equivalent experience is required. Cleveland Clinic Health-System Residency sites agree that no person at these sites will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.
NOTE:
Residency applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States. Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy does not sponsor applicants for work Visas.
Appointments of applicants to residency positions may be contingent upon the applicants satisfying certain eligibility requirements [e.g., graduating from accredited college of pharmacy, obtaining pharmacist license in Ohio (for Ohio sites) or Florida (for Florida sites) within 90 days of start date, and successful completion of a pre-employment physical and drug screen, including testing for cotinine].
Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate OPT (Optional Practical Training) Visas for the Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy Residency Program as the program extends beyond 12 months.
The Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy Residency Program does not meet the qualifications of an OPT STEM employer because Cleveland Clinic is not enrolled in E-Verify.
About Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy Post Graduate Training Programs:
Cleveland Clinic is comprised of a 1,400-bed academic medical center and 17 additional hospitals, including 5 in Southeast Florida. In total, there are nearly 6,000 inpatient beds and over 1,500 pharmacy employees, 20 ambulatory pharmacies, significant inpatient and outpatient clinical services and a pharmacy budget exceeding $1 billion.
At the Main Campus, we offer 14 distinct PGY-1 and PGY-2 pharmacy residency programs, and at our Community Hospitals (Florida and Ohio), we offer 11 PGY-1 programs, one PGY-1/2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration program, two PGY-2 Critical Care programs and one PGY-2 Emergency Medicine.
