Residency Showcase Program Listings

Available Positions 

(1) PGY2 Pain Management and Palliative Care Resident 

About Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center

Located just north of Atlanta, Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center is a 633-bed community teaching facility and the largest hospital in Wellstar Health System’s network. We have a level I trauma center and we are a comprehensive stroke center and a certified comprehensive cardiac center.   

Program Highlights

• Award Winning. ASHP Best Practices Award-winning Program for Opioid Stewardship 
• Balanced training. Designed to provide equal training opportunities in acute and ambulatory care as well as pain management and palliative care.
• Innovative practice.  Hospital pharmacy-based pain management consultation service.  Our clinical pharmacy pain specialists co-manage patients with complex pain. 
• Highly trained and experienced preceptors.  Clinical pharmacy pain specialist preceptors with combined 30 years of pain management experience. 
• Multi-disciplinary. Longitudinal, didactic, and clinical training facilitated through the Wellstar Palliative Medicine Physician's Fellowship program.

Required learning experiences

• Orientation
• Inpatient acute pain
• Inpatient palliative care
• Outpatient palliative care and hospice
• Advanced heart failure
• Research (flipped model)
• Teaching and precepting
• Leadership and professional development

Elective learning experiences

• Emergency medicine
• Critical care
• Internal medicine
• Medication use safety and policy

Additional learning activities

Precepting pharmacy students, facilitating an ACPE-accredited pharmacy continuing education presentation, and participating in community naloxone (Narcan) training events. 

• Phase II Applications accepted via PHORCAS
• Deadline 4/1/2025, 11:59 PM EST
• ASHP Directory Code: 34808
• NMS Directory Code 657373
• Contact
• Jasmine N. Tucker Jones, PharmD, BCGP
• Residency Program Director
• Clinical Pharmacist - Pain Specialist
• jasmine.jones@wellstar.org

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS
The applicant must be participating in, or have completed, an ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program or one in the ASHP accreditation process (i.e., one with candidate or preliminary accreditation status) AND be licensed by or eligible for licensure with the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy. If not licensed at the start of residency, the candidate must secure a Georgia Pharmacy Intern license (fee paid by the residency program).  The resident must be licensed as a pharmacist in the State of Georgia within 60 days of beginning the program.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
1. Register with the ASHP Resident Matching Program at https://natmatch.com/ashprmp/
Wellstar Kennestone Hospital - PGY2-Palliative Care & Pain Management (657373)
2. Complete all required and supplemental information in the PhORCAS Applicant Portal and upload the following documents at https://portal.phorcas.org/
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Letter of Intent
Copy of college of pharmacy transcript
3. References:
At least one of the letters should be from a clinical rotation preceptor within the past 12 months.
4. *Required* Writing Sample Submission - this supplemental information must be provided within PhORCAS
Writing Sample Expectations
Applicants must submit a writing sample.
The submission should be no longer than TWO pages.
The submission should be a written description of any research project in progress or completed including your role, your research advisor’s name and title, primary outcomes, number of patients included, and final results if available.

INTERVIEW EXPECATIONS*
ON-SITE: Eligible applicants will be invited for an on-site facility tour and interview.  
VIRTUAL: Eligible applicants whose primary address is greater than 250 miles from Kennestone Hospital may request to participate in a virtual interview.

*Phase II and Scramble interviews will be virtual.

About Wellstar Kennestone PGY2 Pain Management & Palliative Care Residency Program

Wellstar Health System, one of the largest health systems in Georgia, is known nationally for its innovative care models, focused on improving quality and access to healthcare. Located just north of Atlanta, Wellstar Kennestone is a 633-bed facility (including more than 85 critical care beds) and the largest hospital in Wellstar Health System's network. As one of the Top 100 hospitals, Wellstar Kennestone offers the most advanced care available for all your surgical, medical, rehabilitative and emergency care needs. The Level I Trauma Center features a state-of-the-art emergency department, comprehensive stroke center, and certified comprehensive cardiac center. For more information, visit wellstar.org/locations/hospital/kennestone-regional-medical-center.

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