PGY1 Pharmacy Residency

The University of Kansas Health System offers a 13-month post-PharmD training program. The PGY1 pharmacy residency is an organized, directed, postgraduate training program that centers on development of the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to pursue rational drug therapy.

PGY1 residency programs build upon a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals and objectives. Residents who successfully complete PGY1 residency programs will be skilled in diverse patient care, practice management, leadership and education and be prepared to provide patient care, seek board certification in pharmacotherapy (i.e., BCPS), and pursue advanced education and training opportunities including postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) residencies.

PGY1 pharmacy residency program highlights

Length of program: 13 months (approximately June-July)

Number of positions: 6

PGY1 residency program required learning experiences:

1. Orientation
2. Acute care general selective
   Includes the following learning experiences:
   • Internal Medicine
   • Cardiology
3. Acute care specialty selective
   Includes the following learning experiences:
   • Inpatient and outpatient hematology/oncology
   • Inpatient cystic fibrosis
   • Neonatal intensive care (NICU)
   • Neurology
   • Pediatrics
   • Perioperative/OR
   • Psychiatric pharmacy
   • Pulmonary hypertension
   • Solid organ transplant
4. Ambulatory care selective
   Includes both comprehensive care and specialty learning experiences. See PGY2 website for list of available learning experiences.
5. Medication use, safety and policy
   Includes foundations of drug policy, drug information, pharmacy and therapeutics committee, medication safety, quality outcomes and compliance.
6. Introduction to administration
7. Research (longitudinal)
   PGY1 residents participate in leading 2 research projects throughout the year. Through the reversed model, PGY1 residents complete data collection/analysis and develop a poster and manuscript in the first 6 months of the program for a research project that was developed by a previous PGY1 resident. Starting in January of the residency year, PGY1 residents will develop a research question and design a research project by the end of the residency year that will be passed to the incoming PGY1 class.
8. Service commitment (longitudinal)
   PGY1 residents staff clinical pharmacist shifts approximately every other weekend through January and then approximately every fourth weekend from January to June of the residency year. All weekend shifts are decentralized clinical pharmacist shifts with direct patient care responsibilities. Clinical care teams PGY1 resident staff are reevaluated each residency year. They currently include cardiology, pediatrics, internal medicine and/or surgery, and the PGY1 resident joins one team for the entire year.
9. Presentations: Grand rounds and leadership topic discussion
   PGY1 residents will present 1 45-minute and 1 60-minute pharmacy grand rounds presentations throughout the year. The 60-minute presentation includes offering continuing education credit for pharmacists. Additionally, PGY1 residents moderate and lead 1 leadership topic discussion throughout the year as part of a leadership book club series.

PGY1 Pharmacy program specific elective learning experiences

1. Critical care selective
2. Advanced independent practice (AIP)
3. 3 general electives (1 must be in direct patient care setting)

PGY1/2 MUSP program specific elective learning experiences for PGY1 year

1. Advanced medication use, safety and policy
2. Critical care selective
3. Advanced independent practice (AIP)
4. 2 general electives (1 must be in direct patient care setting)

PGY1/2 HSPAL program specific elective learning experiences for PGY1 year

1. Advanced administration
2. Leadership expansion
3. Transitions of care
4. 1 general elective in direct patient care setting

Elective learning experiences

The following learning experiences are considered elective options, but some may be required or specific to a particular PGY1 track. Additionally, learning experiences included above in required selective learning experiences may be selected as elective options.

1. Advanced administration
2. Advanced heart failure
3. Advanced independent practice (AIP)
2-week experience following a blocked learning experience in an acute care setting where the resident is the assigned pharmacist for the clinical team. This learning experience is scheduled after December of the residency year.
4. Advanced medication use safety and policy
5. Antimicrobial stewardship/Infectious diseases
6. Chief PGY1 resident (longitudinal) *Application required
This elective longitudinal learning experience takes place from January to July of the PGY1 residency year. The primary focus is to gain experience with residency program administration as well as developing and improving leadership skills of the resident.
7. Critical care selective
Includes the following learning experiences:
• Medical ICU
• Neurosurgery ICU
• Surgical/trauma ICU
8. Emergency Department
9. Leadership expansion
Final learning experience of PGY1 year for PGY1/2 HSPAL residents in the residents’ PGY2 longitudinal management area.
10. Palliative care services
11. Pharmacy informatics
12. Pharmacy practice management
13. Toxicology (Poison Center)
14. Transitions of care

Teaching certificate

PGY1 residents have the option to participate in the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy Resident Teaching Certificate.

• Annual salary: $52,000
• Benefits include PTO, paid holidays and other benefits provided to health system employees
• View more information

• Pharmacy resident manual
• PGY1 residency program supplemental manual

• Virtual recruitment events will be held in the fall. Details and links to these events can be found on our social media accounts (below) or by emailing the program contacts.
  • Instagram: @tukhspharmres
  • LinkedIn

PhORCAS residency program application

• Letter of intent
• Curriculum vitae
• College transcripts
• 3 letters of recommendation
• Supplemental materials as outlined in the ASHP residency program directory

• All application materials must be received via PhORCAS by due date listed on ASHP residency program directory.
• Must have a valid pharmacy license in the state of Kansas within 90 days of the start of residency.

National matching services (NMS) code: 143313

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