PGY2 Critical Care at VA San Diego Healthcare System
PGY2 Critical Care at VA San Diego Healthcare System
Application
Details
Posted: 06-Dec-21
Location: San Diego, California
Required Education: PharmD
PGY2:
Critical Care Pharmacy
Session:
Tuesday PM
Program Overview:
The PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency is designed to transition PGY1 residency graduates from general practice to specialized practice that focuses on the needs of critically ill patients. Training will include developing the skills and confidence necessary to treat the wide range of diseases and disorders that occur in the critically ill. Emphasis will be placed on the medications used in the critical care environment and special considerations needed when treating patients with multiple organ system failure. Throughout this program, the PGY2 resident will become an integrated member of the interdisciplinary teams on pulmonary, cardiology, emergency medicine, and surgical services. Responsibilities will include direct patient care, teaching health professionals as well as those health professionals in training, and completing a research project related to the critical care environment. After completion of the PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency, the graduate will be prepared to accept a position as a critical care pharmacist specialist in an intensive care unit, emergency department or trauma center.
Educational Goals:
In collaboration with the health care team, provide comprehensive medication management to critically ill patients following a consistent patient care process
Demonstrate ability to manage formulary and medication-use processes for critically ill patients, as applicable to the organization
Demonstrate leadership skills for successful self-development in the provision of care for critically ill patients
Provide effective medication and practice-related education to critically ill patients, caregivers, health care professionals, students, and the public (individuals and groups)
Demonstrate the skills necessary to conduct a critical care pharmacy research project
Didactic Course Work:
Provide formalized critical care medication-related information
Education will include formal and informal critical care training classes; rounding with pulmonary/critical care, cardiology, and surgical services as well as emergency department training
Specialty on-site service electives available in infectious diseases and nephrology
Continuing education programs and conferences with cutting-edge training in critical care
CORE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Emergency Services
Cardiology
Surgical Services
Pulmonary/Critical Care
ON-SITE ELECTIVE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Anesthesia / Operating Room
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology
OFF-SITE ELECTIVE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Burn Unit
Emergency Medicine
Neonatal / Pediatric ICU
Special Features: Experiential opportunities exist at local affiliated facilities in trauma, emergency medicine, bone marrow transplantation, neonatal and pediatric ICU.
Facilities: The resident office is located at the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) in California and most activities will be coordinated from this site.
Selected applicants will be invited to a personal on-site interview occurring in February or March. Candidates who are not invited for an on-site interview will be notified via e-mail
About PGY2 Critical Care at VA San Diego Healthcare System
VA San Diego Healthcare System
KEY FACTS
Provided high quality health care to 84,712 Veterans in the San Diego and Imperial Valley counties in Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)
Offers a wide range of inpatient and outpatient health services at the medical center in La Jolla, six community based outpatient clinics located in Chula Vista, Escondido, Imperial Valley, Mission Valley, Oceanside and Sorrento Valley and a residential rehabilitation treatment program
Provides medical, surgical, mental health, geriatric, spinal cord injury, and advanced rehabilitation services
Training site for 1,399 medical interns, residents and fellows, as well as 678 other health professionals from pharmacy, nursing, dental, and dietetics
PROVISION OF CARE – PHARMACY SERVICE
Pharmacy services provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Decentralized unit-dose service with Barcode Medication Administration, IV Additive Service, Automated Dispensing Systems, Physician Order Entry and Automated Prescription Filling
Our Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacists, Inpatient Clinical Pharmacists, and Clinical Specialists provide a wide range of pharmaceutical care services to veterans in the inpatient a...nd outpatient settings.
OUR STAFF AND PRECEPTORS
74 pharmacists serve as preceptors to our resident trainees
Most have greater than 5 years of experience with serving as a preceptor to residents
Many are Board Certified as Pharmacotherapy Specialists (BCPS), Oncology Pharmacists (BCOP), Psychiatric Pharmacists (BCPP), Ambulatory Care Pharmacists (BCACP), Critical Care Pharmacists (BCCCP), Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (BCIDP) and Geriatric Pharmacists (BCGP)
More than half possess Scopes of Practices which allow for prescriptive authority
OUR TEACHING PROGRAM
Multiple PGY1 and PGY2 residency training programs
Have academic relationships with two Schools of Pharmacy – University of the Pacific (UOP) and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Annually provide APPEs to approximately 30 students
