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The PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a 12-month, full-time, postgraduate training experience at the health system’s 885-bed academic teaching hospital located in Winston-Salem, NC. As the region’s adult and pediatric level 1 trauma, comprehensive stroke, and burn center, the medical center serves the most critically ill patients throughout the Triad/Piedmont area. The medical center includes a pediatric hospital and cancer center as well as transplant surgery services, providing learners the opportunity to care for patients in a variety of specialty areas.

This program focuses on developing the resident’s analytical, clinical, teaching, and leadership skills to become a successful critical care clinical specialist. The resident is fully integrated into the interdisciplinary care teams and layered learning model, with opportunities to precept PGY1 residents and APPE students. The resident will provide formal lectures and presentations to a variety of audiences and has the option of complete a teaching certificate program. The resident will be actively involved in departmental and organizational initiatives and committees to improve the safety and quality of patient care as it relates to the critically ill patient.

Required clinical rotations include:

• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) I
• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) II - Primary Preceptor Focus
• Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
• Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)
• Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (NSICU)
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) & TPN
• Trauma & Burn Intensive Care Units (TICU/BICU)
• Emergency Medicine

Elective clinical rotations include:

• Evening Multispecialty Critical Care
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Oncology Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU O)
• Oncology (Inpatient Hematology/Oncology, Inpatient Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Inpatient Leukemia)
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Infectious Diseases Consults
• Antibiotic Support Team (stewardship)
• Repeat of any required experience

Required longitudinal experiences include:

• ICU Recovery Clinic
• Pharmacy Practice (staffing – Emergency Department and ICU clinical shifts)
• Leadership, Medication Use Process & Order Set Management
• Research & Medication Use Evaluation/Quality Improvement
• Education

See our website for more details: https://www.wakehealth.edu/about-us/training-programs/pharmacy-residency/programs/critical-care

Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE accredited school of pharmacy, eligibility for licensure in the state of North Carolina or currently licensed in the state, and successful completion of an ASHP accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency.

About Wake Forest Baptist, a part of Atrium Health

Wake Forest Baptist, a part of Atrium Health, is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, NC. Our two main components are an integrated clinical system- anchored by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary care hospital- that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, four community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education. The organization admits approximately 60,000 inpatients each year, its emergency rooms have approximately 187,000 visits each year, and has close to 2 million outpatient visits at all ambulatory and outpatient departments. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, WFBMC is a Level I Adult and Pediatric trauma and burn centers. The Medical Center consists of an adult inpatient care facility, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Heart and Vascular Center, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Brenner Children’s Hospital, Emergency Departments for both adult and pediatric patients, and large outpatient care facilities. Through these resources the hospital... provides acute care to both adult and pediatric patients throughout the western region of North Carolina. WWFBMC is affiliated with Wake Forest School of Medicine and Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Over 350 pharmacists, technicians, and leaders provide comprehensive pharmacy services spanning the continuum of care across multiple patient populations. WFBMC has a long history of clinical excellence and innovation in pharmacy practice. Today the department provides decentralized clinical services to more than 47 inpatient services and a variety of ambulatory clinics. Pharmacists and technicians partner to ensure safe transitions of care during patient admission and discharge and assist patients in accessing pharmaceutical care. In the ambulatory setting the Department of Pharmacy has community and specialty outpatient services as well as home infusion. Graduate Pharmacy Education consists of eleven residency programs, an internship program, and learning experiences for three schools of pharmacy in North Carolina.

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