PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency

 

Required Rotations (10 months, blocks of 4-5 weeks each):

• Orientation
• Adult Emergency Medicine (4 blocks)
  • EM: Intro to Triage
  • EM: Intermediate Triage
  • EM: Advanced Triage
  • EM: Advanced Emergency Medicine
• Emergency Medicine: Alternative Experiences
• Emergency Medicine: Precepting
• Emergency Medicine: Overnight
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine – Cook Children’s Medical Center (Fort Worth, TX)
• Medical Toxicology – UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX)

Critical Care Selective Rotation (1 month, 4-5 weeks):

• Cardiothoracic Intensive Care
• Medical Intensive Care
• Surgical-Trauma Intensive Care
• Neurosurgical Intensive Care

Elective Rotations (1 month, 4-5 weeks):

• Infectious Disease
• Transplant
• May select any other critical care selective rotation
• May repeat pediatric emergency medicine rotation based on availability

Longitudinal Experiences:

• Major Research Project
• Leadership & Medication Safety
• Staffing
• Teaching: didactic & precepting
• Toxicology Rounds

Residents have the opportunity to provide multidisciplinary teaching in a variety of platforms including, but not limited to, the following:

• Emergency Medicine Resident Conference
• Emergency Medicine Nursing Residency Orientation
• Emergency Medicine Providers Meeting
• University of North Texas Integrated Pharmacotherapy of Critical Care and Toxicology Course

Residents are required to provide a 45-minute ACPE accredited CE to the pharmacy department.

Residents will have the opportunity to mentor and precept PGY1 residents or pharmacy students at least once during the residency year.

The EM PGY2 resident will serve in a lead role to develop and complete an original research project. The project will be presented as a platform presentation at ALCALDE Southwest Leadership Conference in the spring of each year. A written manuscript is required to be submitted to the program director prior to completion of the program and is highly encouraged to be submitted for publication.

Other projects include, but are not limited to:

• A policy or guideline review or development
• A medication-use evaluation or quality improvement project

Staffing:

The resident will participate in longitudinal staffing approximately every third weekend in the emergency medicine/internal medicine evening clinical shift. The resident will also staff one major holiday in the emergency department.

On-Call Program:

The resident will serve as a remote Manager On-Call to review and respond to daytime and evening requests for non-formulary and high cost medications. The resident will participate in this program in one-week intervals approximately every 6-7 weeks.

Leadership:

The EM PGY2 resident will participate in select hospital and emergency medicine committees throughout the year. This may include participation in the following:

• Drug Shortage Committee
• Code Blue Committee
• Pediatrics Committee
• Stroke Steering Committee
• Pharmacy Residency Committees (e.g. Wellness, Research, Seminar, Preceptor Development)
• Others based on resident’s interest

Medication Safety:

The resident will be expected to conduct two emergency medicine-related medication error reviews per on-call week.