PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency

Duration/Type: 12-month residency
Number of Positions: 2
Application Deadline: Jan. 2, 2025
Starting Date: July 7, 2025
Stipend: $53,040

Requirements for Acceptance:

National Match Code: 723669

1. Completion of PGY1 pharmacy residency
2. Applicants are required to submit a program application through PhORCAS. Please follow the application instructions.
3. Please ask your letter of recommendation writers to specifically comment on the following characteristics in PhorCas: Ability to organize and manage time, Ability to work with peers and communicate effectively, Clinical problem solving skills and Willingness to accept constructive criticism
4. If possible, we would like your letter writers to come from project advisors and acute care preceptors.
5. In lieu of a letter of intent, we would like you to submit answers to these supplemental questions (please limit to 2 pages total):
   1. Briefly describe your experience/exposure to emergency medicine or toxicology (i.e., rotations, work, volunteer, shadowing, etc).
   2. Briefly describe your responsibilities during a typical day on rotation in the emergency department (ED), toxicology, or ED work experience. You may include a bulleted list.
   3. Please answer the following questions related to the program you are currently completing your PGY1 residency at (or current employer if previously completed PGY1):
      1. What is the name of your PGY1 program or current employer?
      2. Is this program currently ASHP accredited?
      3. How many hospital beds does your institution have?
      4. How many beds does the emergency department have? How many annual patient visits does the emergency department have?
      5. How would you describe the medical center you are completing your PGY1 experience in (ie. Academic medical center, non-academic medical center, community/regional medical center, etc)?
      6. Is the hospital a trauma center? If so, what level? Does the hospital care for acute stroke and/or STEMI patients?
   4. Does your PGY1 residency require an on-call experience? If so, please briefly describe the schedule and responsibilities of a typical on-call shift. If no on-call experience, please mark N/A.
   5. Please answer the following questions related to your staffing experience:
      1. Where is your primary staffing location (ie. decentralized floor, decentralized ICU, centralized, specialist [kinetics, TPN, etc]) and patient population (ie. cardiology, general medicine adults and peds)? If a combination of locations, please describe.
      2. How often do you staff?
      3. Briefly describe responsibilities during a typical day of staffing including average number of patients cared for, clinical activities, acuity of patients, and any other pertinent information. You may include a bulleted list.
   6. Share a meaningful personal hurdle you've encountered, something that has played a role in shaping who you are today. Please discuss how you navigated through this challenge and any insights or self-discoveries it brought about.
   7. In 2 to 4 sentences, where do you see yourself in ten years?
   8. Anything you would like to share that is not on your CV or application. (optional)

About Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

Froedtert Hospital, the academic medical center of the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network, has 766 beds and is a leading referral resource for advanced medical care. Froedtert Hospital also operates the region’s only adult Level I Trauma Center. The primary adult teaching affiliate of MCW, Froedtert Hospital is a major training facility for more than 1,000 medical, nursing and health technical students annually. It is also a respected research center, participating in some 2,000 research studies, including clinical trials, every year. The Froedtert & MCW health network, which includes 10 hospital locations, more than 2,500 physicians and more than 45 health centers and clinics, draws patients from throughout the Midwest and the nation. In our most recent fiscal year, outpatient visits were more than 1.7 million, inpatient admissions to our hospitals exceeded 58,000 and visits to our network physicians totaled more than 1.28 million. In addition to Froedtert Hospital, the network includes Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital, Froedtert West Bend Hospital and Froedtert Community Hospital with locations in Mequon, New Berlin, Oak Creek and Pewaukee. The hea...lth network represents the collaboration of Wisconsin’s largest multispecialty physician practice with two community-based physician groups. In October 2017, an existing affiliation with the former United Hospital System was expanded to include its Kenosha Medical Center, St. Catherine’s Medical Center and related clinics in the network. In March 2021, the health network expanded again and now includes Holy Family Memorial, Manitowoc County's largest health care provider. In the spring of 2023 Froedtert Health and ThedaCare signed a letter of intent to start the process to combine our organizations to advance local health care for our patients and improve the health and well-being of our communities. Visit froedtert.com and wicarewiroots.com for more information. Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin is home to an established and large pharmacy residency program. PGY1 positions are available in acute care focus (10 residents), ambulatory care focus (4 residents), PGY1 community-based (1 resident), PGY1/PGY2 Health-system Pharmacy and Leadership (4 residents), PGY1/PGY2 Medication Use Safety and Policy (4 residents), PGY1&2 Pharmacy Informatics (2 resident). Additionally, three PGY1 resident positions are available at Froedtert Menomonee Falls, one of Froedtert's affiliated community hospitals. PGY2 positions are available in a variety of specialties including ambulatory care (3 residents), critical care (2 residents), emergency medicine (2 residents), infectious diseases (1 resident), oncology (4 residents), thrombosis and hemostasis management (NEW - 1 resident).

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