Residency Showcase Program Listings

The PGY1 pharmacy residency at Baptist-Memphis (TN) provides an opportunity to accelerate the professional growth of a pharmacist in a large, community hospital setting. Major components of this residency include direct patient care, hospital committee involvement, teaching & precepting, research & staffing. This 52-week program is composed of 10 learning experience blocks. Internal medicine, practice management, cardiology, infectious diseases, resident run service & critical care are required blocks with elective opportunities available in oncology, emergency medicine, neurology, solid organ transplant, pain management & stem cell transplant. Longitudinal activities include ambulatory care, medication utilization and safety related projects and code blue coverage. Residents complete a yearlong research project that contributes to the advancement of pharmaceutical care in hospitalized patients. Residents present research findings at the ASHP MYCM (poster) & the Mid-South Residency Conference. Extensive opportunities for teaching including precepting of students, leading small group sessions, didactic lectures, inservices and participating in a teaching certification program are available to the resident also.

Baptist-Memphis provides a solid educational environment with a wide variety of practice opportunities including multi-disciplinary rounding services, consult based patient care & protocol driven initiatives. A resident at Baptist-Memphis will have many clinical & professional experiences throughout the year providing them the tools to thrive in a variety of clinical pharmacy settings.

http://www.baptistonline.org/pgy1memrx

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

• 700+ bed tertiary care community hospital located in Memphis, Tennessee (I240 & Walnut Grove Rd) 
• Flagship hospital for Baptist Memorial Health Care, a system of 22 hospitals in Tennessee, Mississippi, & Arkansas
• Comprehensive patient care facility with diverse adult patient population represented with a particular focus in intensive care, cardiology, neurology, and oncology

Baptist-Memphis Pharmacy Department

• De-centralized pharmacy practice model to enhance patient care and improve interdisciplinary interaction with hospital staff
• Utilizes EPIC to assist in appropriate medication monitoring
• ASHP accredited resident program site since 1992

Our mission at Baptist-Memphis is to provide direct, responsible, medication related quality healthcare for patients while creating and applying innovative new pharmacy practices and being committed pharmacy leaders in education, training, and lifelong learning.

Residency Program Information

• Resident positions available:       6
• Start date:                                 late June 
• Program length:                        52 weeks
• Application deadline:                  January 2
• BMH-M Residency Match #:         112013
• Estimated annual salary:             $46,000 

Benefits:   Health, vision & dental insurance as available to full time employees, 18 paid days off, professional leave for ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting (MYCM) and the Mid-South Residency Conference, stipend for MYCM, free parking and personal office space with computer & iPad

Resident Responsibilities & Opportunities

• Assess medication appropriateness through chart review and during interdisciplinary rounds
• Manage physician-initiated pharmacy consults

               -Nutrition support/TPNs       -Anticoagulant monitoring

               -Patient education        -Dosing adjustments for patient conditions

               -Pharmacokinetic monitoring       -Drug information                 

• Assist in medication related core measure compliance practices based on patient disease state (ACS, stroke, vaccines)
• Provide medication related support during emergency response
• Counsel patients on high-risk medications
• Seek to improve patient care, safety, and economic impact relating to medication usage & delivery
• Assist in teaching, precepting, and evaluating students on rotations and through didactic and application-based classes

 Learning Experience Information

Clinical and management learning experiences are one month in length. Residents have the option of choosing up to four (4) electives or repeating a required rotation in an advanced format for a total of 10 learning experiences. Longitudinal experiences are 12 months in length & concentrated experiences are variable in length as described below.

Required Learning Experiences

• General Orientation (6 weeks)
• Cardiology
• Critical Care (Med/Surg, Cardiac OR Neuro)
• Internal Medicine
• Practice Management

Concentrated Learning Experiences

• Infectious Diseases & antimicrobial stewardship (3 weeks - Rotation #1)
• Resident Run Clinical Service Weeks (2 weeks at the end of the residency year)

Longitudinal Learning Experiences (12 months)

• Ambulatory Care
• Teaching and Precepting including a Teaching Certificate Program 
  • Didactic Lecture, facilitating Applied Therapeutics course, precepting students
• Other Education
  • Journal Club; ACPE Accredited Continuing Education Program (2); Pharmacy Newsletter and Clinical Writing assignment relating to hospital safety 
• Pharmacy Practice Based Research Project
• Staffing
• 1301/Code Coverage

Elective Rotations/Learning Experiences (Select 4)

• Cardiology-Advanced/Heart Failure Transitions of Care Ambulatory Clinic
• Critical Care (Med/Surg, Neuro or Cardiac*)
• Emergency Medicine
• Hematology/Stem Cell Transplant / Cellular Therapy
• Neurology
• Pain Management/ERAS
• Oncology (Solid Tumors)
• Solid Organ Transplant (Heart) 

*Not previously completed- Advanced

Resident Completion Requirements

• Successful completion of longitudinal teaching activities including:
• ACPE-accredited continuing education program for system pharmacy department staff & students (2)
• Pharmacy department newsletter
• Journal club
• Clinical writing assignment on hospital safety
• Completion of a yearlong research project relating to pharmacy practice
• Poster presentation at national meeting
• Presentation at regional residency conference
• Achievement in 85% of evaluable learning objectives for the residency program per ASHP standards
• Completion of the Teaching Certificate Program 
• Coverage of clinical pharmacy consults and/or staffing >15 weekends/year (10 clinical consult coverage; 5 operations) 
• Evening staffing one night per week (except the week following an operations weekend) in main pharmacy providing order verification 
• Clinical coverage of 1 major and 2 minor holidays

Eligibility Requirements

• Graduate or candidate for graduation of an ACPE accredited pharmacy degree program
• Eligible for Tennessee license
• US citizenship or have a permanent VISA 

Application Requirements

• PHORCAS application
• Letter of intent
• Curriculum vitae (CV)
• Official pharmacy school transcript
• Minimum of Three (3) PhORCAS recommendations (Clinical Preferred; Separate recommendation letters not needed)

         All documents must be provided through Phorcas

About Baptist Memorial Hospital- Memphis

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis 706 bed tertiary care community hospital located in Memphis, TennesseeFlagship hospital for Baptist Memorial Health Care, a system of 22 hospitals in Tennessee, Mississippi, & ArkansasComprehensive patient care facility with diverse specialty patient populations represented with a particular focus in intensive care, cardiology, neurology, and oncology

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