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The Medication-Use Safety & Policy (MUSP) residency at UK HealthCare is an ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency designed to train pharmacists to become experts in medication safety, drug information, and medication policy within health systems. This one-year residency program allows the resident to learn and apply medication safety concepts and drug information skills throughout the medication-use system to improve the quality of patient care.

The resident will gain experience with the implementation and management of smart pumps, automated dispensing cabinets, and medication error reports. The resident will participate in P&T and lead interdisciplinary committees and projects, with areas of emphasis including pharmacy operations, pharmacy automation, informatics, formulary management and utilization, drug shortages, accreditation, and medication error prevention, detection, and investigation.

Residents continue their clinical growth by completing one direct patient care rotation, providing longitudinal staffing, and have the option of participating in the in-house on-call program. Residents will also gain experience in teaching, precepting, and research through engagement with the UK College of Pharmacy, completing a research project, and presenting at a professional conference. Upon completion of this program, the resident will be prepared to enter a variety of potential career fields including Drug Information, Formulary Management, Medication Safety, and Medication-Use Policy. 

Excellent Benefits:

• 15 vacation days (not including professional leave), 10 holidays, 4 bonus holidays, professional development travel funding
• Option to contribute to 403B Retirement, 5% of salary + 10% match, vested after 3 years

Program website

I will be available for on-site and virtual interviews at PPS during Midyear. You do not have to be registered for Midyear or PPS to participate. Click here to apply through PPS or email ethe226@uky.edu to request an interview.

About The University of Kentucky HealthCare

UK Healthcare is a 1100 bed tertiary care center located in the heart of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY. It serves as a primary care center for the citizens of Kentucky (#1 hospital in KY by US News & World Report) and includes services such as a Level 1 Trauma Center, TJC certified comprehensive stroke and epilepsy centers, an ECMO Center of Excellence, active kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplant centers, and an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. The Department of Pharmacy is composed of over 550 pharmacists within practice settings ranging from Critical Care, Internal Medicine, and Transplant to Infusion Centers, Retail Pharmacy, and Specialty Pharmacy. Pharmacy service integration across the enterprise provides pharmacy residents countless opportunities to advance patient care and facilitate service growth.UK HealthCare is committed to the pillars of academic health care—research, education and clinical care. Dedicated to the health of the people of Kentucky, we will provide the most advanced patient care and serve as an information resource. We will strengthen local health care and improve the delivery system by partnering with community hospitals and physicians. We will support the organization’s education and research needs by offering cutting edge services on par with the nation’s best providers. The vision of UK HealthCare is to achieve national recognition as a Top 20 public academic health center, providing optimal multidisciplinary health care and developing advanced medical therapeutics for the people of Kentucky and surrounding regions.

Doctor of Pharmacy degree, PGY1 Pharmacy Residency or equivalent, licensure (or eligibility for licensure) in the state of Kentucky

About PGY2 Medication-Use Safety & Policy (MUSP) Program University of Kentucky HealthCare

The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Community Pharmacy Residency Program (CPRP), established in 2001, is dedicated to developing community practitioners who are providers of direct patient care services and innovators in the advancement of community pharmacy practice. The program will equip the residents to: provide direct patient care in community pharmacy settings, effectively communicate with/educate student pharmacists, pharmacists, patients, and other healthcare professionals, manage advanced patient care practices, be a leader and role model for pharmacists, other healthcare professionals, and student pharmacists in advancing the profession of pharmacy, and utilize core management skills to effectively operate a community pharmacy.

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