The postgraduate year two (PGY-2) Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency is a year-long program in which residents will experience a robust clinical environment and be actively involved in the emergency department service line.
During the year, residents will take part in:
- Hospital-wide code blue response
- FAST alert response
- Real-time drug information question response
- Direct physician consultation
- Committee involvement
Pharmacists also attend Sandhills Emergency Physicians Peer Review meetings throughout the year and are involved with emergency department education. FirstHealth also offers a PGY1 residency program each year.
Residency Learning Experiences
Required
- Orientation (4 weeks)
- Introduction to Emergency Medicine (6 weeks)
- Critical Care (6 weeks)
- Critical Care 2 (resident to select one of the following):
- Critical Care 2 - Cardiology (4 weeks)
- Critical Care 2 - Acute Care Transitions (4 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine - Trauma/Neurology (6 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine - Cardiovascular/Pulmonary (6 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine - GI/Renal/Endocrine (6 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine - Infectious Diseases (6 weeks)
Elective (4 weeks each)
- Critical Care 2 - Cardiology (if not completed previously during a required learning experience)*
- Critical Care 2 - Acute Care Transitions (if not completed previously during a required learning experience)*
- Emergency Medicine Administration
- Infectious Disease
*Maximum 14 weeks of critical care learning experiences allowed during the 52-week residency period.
Longitudinal
- Education
- Teaching certificate program (if not already obtained)
- CE case presentations to pharmacists, nursing, emergency medical services staff
- Journal club presentations
- Medication-based topic education at EM Physician Peer Review
- Precepting: APPE students and PGY-1 residents
- Medical Emergency Response
- Code Blue response
- PGY1 resident medical emergency bootcamps
- Pharmacy Practice
- Staffing- every fourth weekend
- Pharmacy Practice Management
- Medication Use Evaluation
- Drug class review, monograph or guideline production
- Practice-Based Project
- Poster presentation at ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
- Platform presentation at a National or Regional Pharmacy Conference
- Manuscript preparation and submission
- Toxicology
Additional Learning Experiences
- Committee Involvement
- Residency Advisory Committee
- ED Operations
- Code Blue
- Stroke
- Sepsis
- Pharmacy Administration
- PN&T
- Medication Safety
- Emergency Physician peer review
- Professional Conference Attendance (reimbursed by program)
- ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
- Emergency Medicine or Critical Care-related conference as determined by program director
Requirements
Interested applicants should submit the following items no later than Jan 2.
- Completion of application materials
- Graduate of an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy
- Eligibility for licensure to practice pharmacy in the State of North Carolina
- Letter of interest
- Curriculum Vitae
- Three letters of recommendation
- Academic transcript
- FirstHealth of the Carolinas application, which can be found here.
All application materials, other than the FirstHealth online application, should be submitted via PhORCAS. For questions regarding the residency program, please contact Matt Bamber, PGY2 Emergency Medicine Residency Program director, at mbamber@firsthealth.org.
About FirstHealth Pharmacy Residencies
The pharmacy residency programs at FirstHealth are designed to inspire, challenge and develop residents into well-rounded clinical pharmacists who are able to care for patients in the acute care setting. PYG2 programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to help contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of practice.
PGY2 programs provide residents with opportunities to function independently as 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 an accredited PGY2 pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification, if available.
About FirstHealth Emergency Medicine
The emergency medicine services at FirstHealth take place primarily at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (MRH). This 402-bed flagship hospital has a 40-bed emergency department and sees more than 60,000 patients annually. Located in central North Carolina, MRH services a primary area including six counties, and is a secondary referral center for 15 counties. In addition to MRH, the system has three other campuses: MRH-Richmond, MRH-Hoke, and Montgomery Memorial Hospital, all of which provide emergency services.
