PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency

Purpose

PGY2 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of practice. PGY2 residencies 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.

Program Structure

The PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency at MUSC is a one-year post-graduate training program designed to develop essential knowledge and skills for contemporary health-system pharmacy practice at a major academic medical center. The residency program provides the flexibility to adapt to the resident’s specific learning needs and goals. The training is provided through month-long clinical rotations and longitudinal experiences that extend throughout the year.

The MUSC Health Charleston campus is composed of three Emergency Departments: University Hospital (51 beds; 50,000 visits/year), Ashley River Tower (18 beds; 15,000 visits/year), and Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital (20 beds; 30,000 visits/year). MUSC Health is a designated Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center (adults and pediatrics), Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Heart & Vascular Center. Training will focus on a wide variety of therapeutic areas including (but not limited to) critical care, trauma, surgery, infectious diseases, preparation/management of mass casualty events, toxicology, and pediatrics

Required Learning Experiences:

1. Pharmacy Orientation (July; 1 month)
2. Pediatric Emergency Department (1 month)
3. Emergency Medicine Practice Management and Quality Improvement Initiatives (December; 1 month)
4. Toxicology (1 month)
5. Emergency Medicine - Introduction to Resuscitation and Emergency Management (1 month)
6. Emergency Medicine - Trauma and Surgery (1 month)
7. Emergency Medicine - Critical Care (1 month)
8. Emergency Medicine - Infectious Diseases (1 month)
9. Emergency Medicine - Advanced Topics in Resuscitation and Emergency Management (1 month)

Other Residency Experiences:

Longitudinal:

• Adult Inpatient On-Call (12 months)
• Medication Use Evaluation (6 months, Q3-Q4)
• Research Project (12 months)
• Emergency Medicine Staffing (12 months)
• Emergency Medicine Teaching Experiences (12 months)

Elective Learning Experiences (1 month; at least 2 ICU): 

• Cardiothoracic ICU
• Medical Surgical ICU
• Surgical Trauma Burn ICU
• Cardiovascular ICU
• Specialty Medical ICU
• Neurosciences ICU
• Internal Medicine
• EM – Cardiology
• Acute Psychiatry 

Required Presentations:

• Critical Care Lecture Series (minimum of one)
• MUSC EM Medical Residency Thursday Conference x1
• Pharmacy Resident Case Conference x1

Additional program-specific completion requirements:

• Staffing 24, 10-hour weekend ED shifts (average of every 4th weekend over 52 weeks). This does not include any staffing for major or minor holidays
• Up to 26 days on-call
• Research certificate if not completed previously

Core Preceptors:

Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist
Kelsey Billups, PharmD, BCPS
billupsk@musc.edu

Daniel Fischer, PharmD, BCCCP
fischeda@musc.edu

Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Liz LaScala, PharmD, BCPS
lascala@musc.edu