PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program

The PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program at UTMB is a twelve-month, ASHP pre-candidate program of training and experience based upon the ASHP Accreditation Standard for PGY2 Pharmacy Residency and the ASHP Required Competency Areas, Goals, and Objectives for PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Programs 2023. The program provides flexibility to meet the needs and interests of the individual resident while ensuring the development of clinical competency in ambulatory care pharmacy practice.

This residency will offer the resident the opportunity to rotate through UTMB Health System pharmacist-run primary care and specialty clinics.

Patient care is provided in multidisciplinary settings and the ambulatory care pharmacy resident will interact with clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physicians, nurses, patients, and caregivers to provide comprehensive care to patients in ambulatory care. Daily activities will include interviewing and managing patients in the clinic setting, providing additional phone-based care to patients, initiating, reviewing, and updating clinic policies and procedures, and implementing quality assurance programs for current and new clinics. The ambulatory care resident will be expected to be proficient at working in various clinics for professional growth.

Purpose Statement

Our Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency program builds on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and a PGY1 pharmacy residency program to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in Ambulatory Care. This PGY2 residency provides residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporate both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings. Residents who successfully complete the PGY2 Ambulatory Care pharmacy residency should possess competencies that qualify them for clinical pharmacist and/or faculty positions and position them to be eligible for attainment of board certification in Ambulatory Care.

Learning Experiences

The UTMB Ambulatory Care residency program will give residents the opportunity to rotate through three of its campuses which will expose residents to different populations and experiences. Through said experiences, residents will be able to provide exceptional patient care and be part of an interdisciplinary team. Residents will be provided with a list of goals and objectives upon starting each new learning experience.

All learning experiences will be four-week rotations. Residents will be given the opportunity to rotate through the three different UTMB campuses.

PGY2 Amb Care Learning Experiences

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Required Learning Experiences
- Primary Care I: Family Medicine
- Primary Care II: Endocrinology
- Primary Care III: Solid Organ Transplant
- Transitions of Care
- Pharmacy Leadership
Elective Learning Experiences
- Dermatology
- GI/HepC
- Neurology/Rheumatology
- Solid Organ Transplant
Longitudinal Learning Experiences
- Interdisciplinary Clinic
- Staffing
- Research Project

Benefits

Office	Each resident will have a dedicated space and will be assigned a computer and personal pager.
Salary	$60,000/year
Time Off	10 holidays + Residents will accrue PTO throughout the residency year and are allowed to take a total of 10 days of PTO (PTO includes sick days)
Conference/Meetings	Financial Support is offered for the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP) conference.
Insurance	Medical insurance is provided to all full-time employees at no additional cost. Dental and vision plans are available.

PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program Requirements (PDF)

For further information, contact:

	Monica Green, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCACP, CDCES PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program Director Email: mongreen@utmb.edu
	Damien Fisher PharmD., AE-C PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program Coordinator Email: Drfisher@utmb.edu