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PGY2 - Critical Care

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Program Director Contact Information

megan-feeney 

Megan Feeney, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Manager - Critical Care and Surgery
Director - PGY2 Critical Care

 

 

 

 

Shyam Patel 

Shyam Patel, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Specialist - Medical ICU
Coordinator - PGY2 Critical Care

 

 

 

 

We are planning to early commit for our PGY2 Critical Care Program this year. Thank you!

For general residency questions, please email Megan.Feeney@bmc.org

 

Program Description

Boston Medical Center's PGY2 critical care pharmacy residency was the first in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to gain ASHP accreditation in 2004. During that time, critical care pharmacy services have expanded to include dedicated specialists in medical, trauma, cardiac, neuro, and surgical critical care, and emergency medicine. Additionally, the resident staffs New England’s busiest emergency department, which has grown to be the only ED in the Commonwealth to provide 24/7 de-centralized pharmacy services. Our program offers a challenging, fast-paced rotation environment desired by candidates interested in pursuing a future in critical care and provides opportunities to complete a research or quality improvement project and medication use evaluation, serve on the Anti-thrombotic Task Force, lead continuing education seminars, pharmacy case conferences, and therapeutics seminars, and precept APPE pharmacy students from local colleges of pharmacy. The unique combination of our strong history, high quality specialist preceptors and learning experiences, quality improvement focus, and exemplary commitment to our diverse patients, makes BMC one of the best places for critical care pharmacy residency training in the Northeast.

Our PGY-2 critical care residents work closely with physician training programs in:

Program Purpose

PGY2 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) 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 Outcomes

  1. Patient care (required)
  2. Advancing practice and improving care (required)
  3. Leadership and management (required)
  4. Teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge (required)
  5. Added leadership and practice management skills (elective)
  6. Mass casualty (elective)

Core Rotations (5 weeks unless otherwise specified)

  • Orientation (2-4 weeks)
  • Medical ICU I
  • Medical ICU II - may include co-precepting a PGY1 resident
  • Trauma/Surgical ICU 
  • Neurocritical Care
  • Cardiac ICU
  • Emergency Medicine I
  • Infectious Diseases

Elective Rotations 

  • Pediatric & Neonatal ICU 
  • Nutrition Support Team 
  • Toxicology
  • Critical Care Administration/Medication Safety
  • Trauma/Surgical ICU II
  • Cardiac ICU II
  • Emergency Medicine II
  • Neurocritical Care II

Longitudinal Responsibilities

  • Longitudinal research or IHI quality improvement project supported by the scholarship committee
  • Medication guideline development
  • Information systems support (e.g. CPOE, smartpump, ADC, Lexi-Comp) improvements
  • Formulary Management Committee participation
  • Anti-thrombotic Task Force participation
  • Executive Critical Care Committee participation
  • Completion of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement basic Certificate in Quality and Safety
  • Participation in emergency responses (i.e. code blue, code stroke, and trauma room care)

Teaching Responsibilities

  • 1 Resident case conference or pharmacy M&M
  • 1 Multidisciplinary lecture (Grand Rounds)
  • 1 ACPE-Accredited Continuing Education (CE) lecture
  • 1 Clinical pearl presentation at the Annual New England Critical Care Symposium (5 minutes)

Additional Opportunities

  • Resident Teaching Certificate
  • Resiliency Training
  • Monograph
  • Policy development or revisions
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology Section online journal club (20 minutes, if selected)
  • SCCM Research Snapshot presentation (7 minutes, if selected)
  • Journal Club/"Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters" (POEM) presentations
  • Emergency department teaching
  • Code blue and ECMO simulation participation
  • Chief Resident opportunity

Pharmacy Practice (Staffing) Responsibilities

  • ICU evening shift staffing four weeks throughout the year
  • ICU day shift during the final week of core ICU rotations (SICU, MICU I, NCC, CCU, MICU II)
  • Every third weekend staffing of an ED or ICU shift
  • One major and one minor holiday

Benefits

  • Estimated Salary: $63,000
  • Vacation time: 12 days
  • Office space with computer
  • Travel/CE allowance (~$2,600/year): ASHP Midyear Meeting, SCCM, or other opportunities for additional national specialty meetings
  • $750 cafeteria allowance per academic year
  • $1000 move/licensure bonus
  • Lease guarantee available to minimize security deposit requirements
  • Insurance Benefits: health (100% employer-paid option), dental, vision, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, life insurance