PGY1 Pharmacy Residency

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
In Conjunction With
Cooper University Hospital
ASHP Accreditation Number 23024
National Matching Service Code 114713

Introduction

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (PCP) at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USciences) in conjunction with Cooper University Hospital offers a one-year PGY1 Pharmacy Residency. The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at PCP is designed to provide the opportunity to accelerate growth in direct patient care and in practice management beyond entry-level professional competence and to further the development of leadership skills that can be applied in any position and in any practice setting. PGY1 Pharmacy residents acquire substantial knowledge required for skillful problem solving, refine their problem-solving strategies, strengthen their professional values and attitudes, and advance the growth of their clinical judgment. The emphasis in training is on the progressive development of clinical judgment, a process begun in the clerkships of the professional school years but requiring further extensive practice, self-reflection, and shaping of decision-making skills based on feedback on performance. The residency year provides a fertile environment for accelerating growth beyond entry-level professional competence through supervised practice under the guidance of model practitioners. Similarly, the residency year provides a fertile environment for accelerating the growth of residents’ leadership skills.

The Goals and Objectives of the program are those of the ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency program.

In addition to the ASHP Goals and Objectives, the following Objectives are required, to:

Complete the Resident and Fellow Teaching Certificate Program.
Prepare and submit an abstract research report for presentation at Eastern States Residency Conference.
Present interim or final results of the research at Eastern States Residency and Preceptor Conference.
Give a presentation of research results to the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Administration Faculty.
Prepare and submit an abstract research report of residency project results for presentation at a national meeting such as ASHP or ACCP.
Prepare and submit at least one manuscript for publication in a refereed biomedical journal. Options include a case report, review article or research results.

Faculty

PGY1 Residency Program Director and Preceptor

Quinn Czosnowski, PharmD, BCPS (Medical Critical Care and Research)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Additional Preceptors

Jessica Adams, PharmD, BCPS (HIV)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Angela Bingham, PharmD, BCPS (Critical Care)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Laura Bio, PharmD, BCPS (Pediatrics)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Jane Bowen, PharmD (Internal Medicine)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Gladys M. Duenas, PharmD (Ambulatory Care)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Ben Ereshefsky, PharmD (Infectious Disease)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Jane Frumin, PharmD (Internal Medicine)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Valerie Ganetsky, PharmD, BCPS (Ambulatory Care)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Jomy George, PharmD, BCPS (Infectious Disease)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Anisha Grover, PharmD (Community)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Diane Hadley, PharmD (Ambulatory Care)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Stephanie Polli, PharmD (Medication Safety)
Clinical Pharmacist
Cooper University Hospital

Linda Rivard, PharmD (Longitudinal Staffing)
Pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy
Cooper University Hospital

Shanta Sen, PharmD, BCPS (Internal Medicine)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Colleen Smith, PharmD (Neonatal ICU)
Clinical Pharmacist
Cooper University Hospital

Sarah A. Spinler, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, AQ (Cardiology Critical Care, Teaching, and Research)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy

Jackie Sutton, PharmD (Hospital Pharmacy Management)
Director of Pharmacy
Cooper University Hospital

Tyan Thomas, PharmD, BCPS (Ambulatory Care)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Facilities

The training sites for the PCP PGY1 Pharmacy Resident are Cooper University Hospital, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Cooper University Hospital

Most of the resident rotations are offered at Cooper University Hospital (CUH) in Camden, NJ. CUH is a 554-licensed bed, not for profit academic medical center offering 76 adult specialty services, including a world-class Level I trauma center, as well as centers of excellence in orthopedics, cardiac care, and neurology. The Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper offers comprehensive specialty pediatrics care. There are 81 critical care beds divided among the Medical/Surgical ICU (30), Intermediate ICU (10), Pediatric ICU (5), Trauma ICU (16), Trauma Stepdown Unit (10), CCU (12), and Stroke Unit (4). Cooper also offers more than 50 multi-specialty physician offices the southern New Jersey region. Cooper is also a core teaching hospital of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Cooper University Hospital is a 554-licensed bed, not for profit academic center. Cooper offers 76 adults specialty services, including centers of excellence in Cancer, Cardiology, Critical Care, Neurological Care, Orthopedics and Trauma. Visit http://www.cooperhealth.org/content.

Philadelphia VA Medical Center

Ambulatory care rotations are offered at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, which has been in existence since 1952, serves more than 350,000 veterans who reside in eight county areas of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The Medical Center has 133 operating beds, and supports a 220-bed Nursing Home. The Medical Center is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and has the distinction of being named as a National Research Center of Excellence for its Center for Health Equity, Research and Promotion (CHERP) and Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). The Medical Center’s anticoagulation clinic is pharmacist-managed, and clinical pharmacists provide direct care to patients with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and other chronic conditions in the Medical Center’s physician-referral pharmacy disease state management clinics. In addition to our pharmacy disease state management clinics, clinical pharmacists work with our health care providers in the hepatitis C/infectious diseases and pain management clinics. There is interest in expanding pharmacy’s role in the Medical Center’s smoking cessation and erythropoietin clinics, providing an opportunity the PGY 2 ambulatory care resident to gain experience with assisting in the initiation of new pharmacy services.

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (PCP) is the oldest College of Pharmacy in the United States. Since its origin in 1821, the College has continued to be a leader in pharmacy education. Besides the flagship program, the entry-level Doctor of Pharmacy degree, pharmacy-related baccalaureate programs are offered in the areas of pharmaceutical technology and pharmacology and toxicology. The PCP also offers graduate degrees in Pharmaceutics (MS, PhD), Pharmacology and Toxicology (MS, PhD), and Pharmacy Administration (MS, PhD). The Mayes College of Healthcare Policy and business offers degrees in Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management (BS), Biomedical Writing (MS), Health Policy (MS, PhD), Public Health (MPH), and Pharmaceutical Business (MBA).

Components of the Program

Proposed Schedule

It is anticipated that the resident will spend a minimum of 2000 hours annually in program-related activities.

Practice Experiences:

Required 1 month experiences:

Orientation
Ambulatory Care
Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine 1
Internal Medicine 2 (APPE Preceptor)
Hospital Management
Medical Critical Care
Pediatrics

Required longitudinal experiences:

Research
Staffing
Teaching

Elective experiences:

Coronary Care Unit
CT Surgery ICU
HIV Clinic
Interprofessional Student Clinic (Longitudinal)
Neonatal ICU
Pediatric ICU
Trauma ICU

Evaluation and Residency Completion

All goals and objectives as set forth by the ASHP Residency Standards the additional objectives listed above must be achieved by the resident in order to successfully complete the residency.

Based upon a survey of incoming skills and experience, the resident will receive a modified set of residency goals and objectives by the end of the first month of the program. Some ASHP Residency goals and objectives may have already been met based upon prior experience and some additional residency goals and objectives may be added depending on resident interest and program requirements. This Customized Training Plan (CTP) and residency goals and objectives, will be assessed quarterly by a Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) composed of preceptors and faculty advisors to the resident and residency program director (RPD) and updated based upon a review of the residents narrative of progress towards goal and objective completion as well as preceptor evaluations. The CTP may be revised to include remedial work if required by the RAC or RPD to assist the resident with goal and objective completion.

All goals and objectives for the CTP must be achieved by the resident in order to successfully complete the residency. At the discretion of the RPD, the resident may be granted an extension of 6 months (until December 31st) without pay to complete any outstanding goals and objectives pertaining to manuscript submission and research project completion.

A certificate of residency completion will be awarded upon successful completion of the residency.

More Information

Qualifications

Application - This residency participates in the ASHP Resident Matching Program. This residency site agrees that no person at this site will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.

Residency Application Recommendation Form

Salary and Benefits

Value Added

Certification

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