PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center

The PGY-2 Critical Care Pharmacy residency program at UTSW is a one-year post-graduate training program designed to prepare critical care specialists.

Residents will gain experience and training in the following clinical service areas:

• Medical ICU
• Cardiovascular ICU
• Neurosurgical ICU
• Surgical ICU
• Infectious diseases
• Transplant infectious diseases
• Solid organ transplant (liver, kidney, lung, heart)
• Bone marrow transplant 

Additionally, residents will be involved in the academic, administrative, formulary management, quality improvement, and clinical research activities of the department.

Purpose

This residency will provide residents with opportunities to function as independent practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings.  Residents who successfully complete the program will be prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification.

Program Structure

Requirements of the program consist of the following core learning experiences:

• Orientation (July)
• Project/Research (December)
• Medical Intensive Care Unit
• Advanced Medical Intensive Care Unit
• Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
• Advanced Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Advanced Surgical ICU/Nutrition Support Services
• Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit
• Infectious Diseases Consult Service
• Transplant Infectious Diseases Consult Service

Elective Rotations

• Additional ICU elective
• Emergency Medicine
• Trauma Intensive Care Unit
• Solid Organ (Kidney, Liver, Lung, Heart) or Bone Marrow Transplant
• Oncology
• Pharmacy Administration

*All rotations are 4 weeks each

Longitudinal Expectations

• Staff every third weekend in critical care areas
• Code Blue and Code Stroke response
• Major research project
• Medication Use Evaluation
• Precept PGY-1 residents and students

Program Expectations

• ACPE-accredited CE presentation
• Present major research project at a regional or national meeting (i.e. SCCM Texas Chapter Annual Symposium, SCCM Annual Congress, ASHP, ALCALDE)
• Medication Use Evaluation
• Drug monograph
• Teaching certificate
• Teaching opportunities through Texas Tech University Health Science Center College of Pharmacy