Pharmacy Practice Residency (PGY1) at Sharp HealthCare

Application deadline is Jan. 4, 2012, (received) to be accepted

Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system based in San Diego, Calif. Sharp includes four acute-care hospitals, three specialty hospitals and two medical groups, plus a full spectrum of other facilities and services.

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PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residents:
Catherine Nguyen, PharmD
Diana Nguyen, PharmD
Fon Hsieh, PharmD
Lubna Kazi, PharmD

This ASHP-accredited pharmacy practice (PGY1) residency provides opportunity for the resident to enhance his or her ability to provide effective pharmaceutical care in a wide variety of settings. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center serves as the home base of the residency program, and the residents also complete rotations at various Sharp HealthCare hospitals. Through this health care system residency approach, the resident obtains pharmacy experience in multiple diverse patient care settings. Unique and distinctive training may include: emergency medicine, pain management, critical care, NICU, infectious disease, cardiology, nutritional support, geriatrics, hospital administration, health care system administration, anticoagulation, psychiatry and women's studies.

Residents work under the mentorship of pharmacy resident advisors and preceptors. This program enables the resident to improve communication and leadership skills with health care professionals, pharmacy students and patients. The resident participates in the development of his or her own residency plan, which reflects their interest and builds upon their previous experiences. Upon successful completion of our program, residents will be equipped with the knowledge to become an asset to the pharmacy community.

Please visit the websites for more information about each Sharp HealthCare facility:

Recognitions

  • Sharp HealthCare honored as the 2007 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
  • Sharp Memorial Hospital named San Diego's "Best Hospital," and Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group named San Diego's "Best Medical Group" in August 2011
  • Sharp HealthCare named No. 1 hospital network in California and No. 13 in nation by SDI in 2011
  • Sharp Memorial Hospital caregivers given the Spirit of Planetree Award in 2011
  • Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns awarded the Press Ganey Best Place to Practice Award in 2011
  • Sharp Grossmont Hospital's Medical ICU received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence in April 2010.=
  • Sharp Memorial and Sharp Grossmont achieve the MAGNET® Designation for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurse Credentialing Center in July 2010
  • Sharp HospiceCare received the American Hospital Association (AHA) Circle of Life Citation for Honor in July 2010
  • Sharp Memorial Hospital was named the "Most Beautiful Hospital in America" by voters in a contest run by Soliant Health in 2010
  • Sharp HealthCare won the "Best of San Diego" readers poll for the "Best Hospital" in August 2009 (three years in a row)
  • Sharp HealthCare named one of the nation's "Most Wired" health care systems by Hospital & Health Networks magazine (11 years in a row)
  • Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center was recognized for specific Specialty Excellence in: Pulmonary (2006 to 2008), Stroke (2008), and Women's Health (2008)
  • Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, winner of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' (ASHP) Best Practices Award in Health System Pharmacy, 2006

Program Rotations
Residency objectives and experiences are individually designed so that residents develop confidence and competence in acute patient care, drug information, disease state management and practice management. Residents participate in the development of their own residency plan, which reflects the interest and builds on previous experience.

Required core rotations:

  • Critical Care
  • Emergency Medicine (Guaranteed elective)
  • Inpatient Pain Management (Guaranteed elective)
  • Infectious Disease/ASP
  • Medicine (Telemetry/Med-Surg)
  • Practice Management/Admin
  • Safe Medication Practice

Elective rotations*:

  • Advanced Critical Care
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Informatics
  • Managed Care
  • NICU
  • Nutritional & Metabolic Support
  • Psychiatry
  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • System DI/Project
  • Women's Health
  • Others**

*All core rotations may also be taken as electives.
**Residents may develop new rotations as approved by the residency director and preceptors.

Additional Activities

  • Committees
    Residents actively participate in the Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) and Safe Medication Practice committees. In addition, residents will be actively involved with other multidisciplinary committees as appropriate. Residents are expected to participate in the disease state management and safe medication practice activities.
  • Compensation
    The annual base stipend will be an estimate of $42,000. All staffing will be tailored to the needs of the residency program and the department as well as coordinated with the pharmacy manager.
  • Educational Opportunities
    Residents receive financial support to attend approved major professional meetings and conferences (i.e., CSHP Seminar, ASHP Midyear and Society of Critical Care Medicine) and the annual regional residency conference, Western States.
  • Leadership
    Coordinate tasks to the resident team. Maintain correspondence with administration and preceptors. Perform other duties deemed necessary as chief resident.
  • Presentations
    Residents are required to provide a formal seminar presentation. In addition, numerous presentation opportunities may be provided throughout the year to medical and nursing staff, peers, students and pharmacy staff covering a wide range of topics.
  • Projects
    Residents are each expected to select an area of interest for in-depth, systematic study suitable for publication and presentation. They are also involved in other projects as deemed necessary by the pharmacy department and their individual preceptors.
  • Teaching
    Teaching experiences are integrated with patient care experiences through provision of educational support to pharmacy students and pharmacy, nursing and medical staff members. Residents will participate with pharmacists in the preceptorship of pharmacy students on clinical rotations from area schools including but not limited to Touro University College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences and UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy. 

Residents will participate in the San Diego Pharmacy Residency Leadership Program (SDPRL). This county-wide program includes activities such as preceptor development and workshops. Residents will receive a teaching certificate upon completion of the program. Opportunities may be available to serve as a conference leader as well as guest lecturer to pharmacy students at UCSD.

How to Apply
Applicants must possess a doctor of pharmacy degree (PharmD) and must be self-motivated with good interpersonal and communication skills. Completion of California licensure exam recommended before residency.

All application material must be received by Jan. 4, 2012, to be accepted.

Complete applications should include the following:

Send the complete application to:

Grant Lum, PharmD
Residency Pharmacy Director
Pharmacy Clinical Supervisor
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
751 Medical Center Court
Chula Vista, CA 91911
grant.lum@sharp.com
619-502-4071

For More Information
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