Our PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program is an ASHP accredited program that offers in-depth experiences in clinical services. Our program is designed to provide you with a variety of learning environments, teaching opportunities, and projects – all to help develop your clinical knowledge, skills, confidence, and independence. One of our primary goals is to provide residents with professional growth that optimizes their marketability for future employment in either ambulatory care or inpatient settings, PGY-2 opportunities, and other pharmacy career endeavors.

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• Submit completed applications via Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS) January 2, 2025
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• No letter of intent - must answer the following questions via attachment to PhORCAS: 
  1. 1. From these 5 characteristics: communication, adaptability, time management, professionalism, dependability, pick 2 characteristics that you feel you excel at and provide specific examples.
     2. From these 5 characteristics: communication, adaptability, time management, professionalism, dependability, pick 2 characteristics that you need to improve on, and provide specific examples.
     3. For the ones you chose that you need to improve on, how do you feel a residency at VASNHS specifically will help you to improve in those areas?
• Three (3) letters of recommendation  
  • Required:
    • At least one from an APPE preceptor
  • If you are a practicing pharmacist, one from your employer (e.g., supervisor)

About VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System (Las Vegas VA)

Veteran care begin in Las Vegas in 1972 with an Outpatient Clinic in Henderson, Nevada as a satellite of the Reno VA Medical Center. In 1980, the VA relocated to West Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas and functioning as an Independent Outpatient Clinic. The Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense began a joint venture, constructing a hospital at the Nellis Air Force Base. The hospital opened in 1994 and was renamed the Mike O’Callaghan Federal Hospital (MOFH) in 1996. Together the VA and the US Air Force manage 114 beds total in this facility. In August 2012, VASNHS opened a one-million square-feet comprehensive medical center in North Las Vegas. It is the first VA hospital to be built in the United States since the end of the Gulf War. This facility is equipped to provide 90-bed inpatient, 120-bed extended and skilled nursing care as well as various outpatient specialty care services. In addition, four new Primary Care Clinics were opened throughout Las Vegas Metropolitan area to meet primary care and mental health needs, allowing Veterans to continue to receive primary care services closer to home.

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