Residency Showcase Program Listings

The Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency is designed to provide a training opportunity for individuals desiring to enhance their clinical competency in the field of internal medicine. The 12-month training period heavily emphasizes inpatient acute care rotations with a longitudinal ambulatory care rotation. The program was started in 2012, and has a history of many successful graduates who have accepted clinical pharmacy specialist positions at both VA and non-VA hospitals, as well as university faculty and ambulatory care positions.

The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) provides for the health care needs of Veterans in San Antonio and the outlying areas. The PGY2 Internal Medicine program is located at the Audie L. Murphy (ALM) Memorial Hospital. ALM is a 268 bed facility providing primary, secondary and tertiary health care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine. It also supports a 90 bed Community Living Center, a 30 bed Spinal Cord Injury Center, an 8 bed Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and a Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center.

The resident spends a minimum of four months rounding with one of the 5 medicine teams at ALM, and if available at the affiliated county teaching hospital, University Health (UH) System Hospital. Medicine teams at the facility consist of an attending physician, medicine resident, two medical interns, medical students, and a clinical pharmacy specialist. This team typically cares for 8-20 patients daily. As a member of the team, the pharmacy resident is responsible for completing an accurate medication reconciliation on admission and discharge, participating in the design and implementation of appropriate therapeutic regimens, monitoring the outcome of therapy, assisting in the application of pharmacokinetic principles to individualize therapy as needed, and in the provision of patient education on discharge. Also, depending on preceptor availability, the resident will have opportunities to co-precept PGY1 residents or pharmacy students as well as potentially provide lectures to pharmacy students at a local college of pharmacy.

For additional information, please visit: https://pharmacy.utexas.edu/residencies/pgy2/south-texas-veterans-internal-medicine and https://www.southtexas.va.gov/Pharmacy_Residency_Information.asp

Program representatives will be participating in Midyear Showcase via an external Webex from 2-5pm CST on Monday, December 6th. Please use this link to join: https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/webappng/sites/veteransaffairs/meeting/download/5bac27a31ee542a59767d855ae45de17?siteurl=veteransaffairs&MTID=m6ac4a4de22634e2ab996c43650f5a522

• Meeting number (access code): 2761 489 8136
• Meeting password: zBbNxhM725@

REQUIREMENTS:

• U.S. citizens
• Texas Pharmacy License
• Pharm.D. degree from ACPE-accredited institution
• Eligible to practice pharmacy in at least one state
• Selection is based on professional competence, scholastic achievement, communication skills, clinical practice and research interests, and career goals.

 All application materials should be submitted through ASHP PhORCAS

• Personal letter of intent
• Three letters of reference
• Curriculum vitae
• Official pharmacy school transcript