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Wellstar MCG Health (formerly AU Medical Center) provides a 24-month ASHP-accredited PGY1/PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership (HSPAL) Pharmacy Residency, which is offered concurrently with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA)* from the Augusta University Hull College of Business. The Wellstar MCG Health Augusta post-graduate experience provides comprehensive training in acute care, ambulatory care, long term care, drug information, med-use policy development, practice management, teaching, research and leadership at a tertiary care academic medical center. 

This two-year program has been established to train the future leaders of our profession by providing them with the tools and knowledge to lead patient-centered care in a dynamic health care environment.  The PGY1 year focuses on foundational comprehensive clinical training with the PGY2 year focused on pharmacy administration and leadership.

*Candidates who already hold an MBA have the option to pursue a Master of Public Health (MPH), further expanding their expertise in population health, public policy, and health system outcomes. 

Program highlights:

• PGY1 --variety of core and elective experiences offered (pediatrics, critical care, oncology, ambulatory care clinics, internal medicine, management, cardiology, solid organ transplant, infectious disease, etc.)
• Medication Safety, 340B, Pharmacy Informatics, leadership starting early PGY1
• Code Blue response team
• Committee Participation (P&T Committee, Medication Error Prevention Committee)
• Medication Use Evaluation/Performance Improvement leadership for residents
• Investigational Drug Services/ Clinical Research Pharmacy/ IRB
• Inpatient pharmacy staffing coverage on weekends/(PGY1 year) early evenings
• Teaching Certificate through UGA College of Pharmacy (with the same extensive teaching portfolio as our other PGY1 Pharmacy residents)

The flexibility of the residency design allows residents to individualize the program to meet their specific needs and interests.

A PGY2 health-system pharmacy administration and leadership residency builds upon PGY1 residency graduates' competence in the delivery of patient-centered care and in pharmacy operational services to prepare residents who can assume high level managerial, supervisory and leadership responsibilities.  Areas of competence emphasized during the program include safe and effective medication-use systems, quality assurance and improvement, the management of human resources, the management of financial resources, use of technology, and advanced leadership.  The residency lays the foundation for continued growth in management and leadership skills.

Upon graduation, residents are prepared for a clinical or operational management/supervisory role in a variety of work settings.

This accredited program is the only 2-year (PGY1/PGY2) with MBA residency for pharmacy administration and leadership in Georgia (first resident graduated spring 2024)

Our PGY1 residency has been ASHP-accredited since 1975 (originally under the facility name Medical College of Georgia Hospitals and Clinics and MCG Health, Inc.). We have almost 50 years of residency graduates who are making a difference every day!

Link to ASHP Online Residency Directory Listing

Find more information on our websites:

https://www.wellstar.org/pharmacy-residency/wmcg-health-pgy1-pgy2-HSPAL 

https://www.wellstar.org/pharmacy-residency/wmcg-health-pgy1-pharmacy-residency

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Applicants for the Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center-University of Georgia College of Pharmacy residencies must be licensed or eligible for licensure as a pharmacist in Georgia at the start of the residency.

About Wellstar MCG Medical Center PGY1/PGY2 HSPAL+ MBA @Augusta University - Augusta

Based in Augusta, Georgia, Wellstar MCG Health is an academic medical center affiliated with the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Augusta University and now part of the unified Wellstar Health System. Wellstar MCG Health provides skilled, compassionate care to its patients, conducts leading-edge clinical research and fosters the medical education and training of tomorrow’s health care practitioners. Wellstar is one of the largest health-systems in Georgia and a not-for-profit committed to deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center serves as the largest clinical training site for the University of Georgia (UGA) Pharm.D. program, and medical/allied health students from Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University. The health system provides a full range of services including a Children's hospital, Level IV regional neonatal intensive care, a renal transplantation program, a level I regional trauma center and pediatric trauma center, Georgia Cancer Center (with Phase 1 clinical trials unit), medical office building with over 80 outpatient clinics, several infusion centers and extensive specialty pharmacy services.... The pharmacy has ambulatory care pharmacists practicing under 12 different collaborative practice agreements (primary care clinics, digestive health, oncology), a pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic, clinical research pharmacy, and consultant pharmacist services to a long-term care facility. Wellstar MCG pharmacists have teaching appointments as clinical faculty and pharmacy preceptors for the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and institution also serves as the clinical practice site for six full-time UGA pharmacy faculty.

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