PGY1 Pharmacy Residency

Our pharmacy department offers you an ideal learning environment as a pharmacy resident. You have the flexibility to tailor your residency experience to your specific interests. Your clinical experiences will offer myriad opportunities to pursue your professional goals while you prepare to become an independent clinician, pursue a PGY2 or fellowship in a specialized area, or serve as a preceptor for pharmacy students.

Our decentralized services are provided by service line teams, which include clinical pharmacists, clinical specialists, and technicians in the areas of critical care, internal medicine/surgery, solid organ transplant, women's and children's health, oncology and cardiology. The staff in these areas are directly engaged in providing pharmaceutical care to our patients and serve as an immediate resource for the medical and nursing staffs concerning drug information and drug therapy review.

Additional services provided by the department include a pharmacokinetic consult service, drug therapy management, formulary management, therapeutic substitution, patient education, drug information and protocol development.

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Mentorship

Each resident can select an advisor who guides and mentors the resident throughout the year. During orientation, you will choose a personal mentor to help guide and support you both professionally and personally through the year. Additionally, your seminar and research advisors will serve as project mentors. The RPD and RPC in addition to our Leadership Team will serve as mentors throughout your residency. While it’s a big place you are always supported!

BUMC Pharmacy Preceptors

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Staffing requirements

PGY1 residents staff every third weekend to gain proficiency in our hybrid clinical staffing model. Residents will also work one summer and one winter holiday. Additionally, each resident will progress into taking manager on-call responsibilities. The on-call consists of the resident assisting in the resolution of issues primarily by phone or computer. Remote access to the electronic medical record as well as drug information references are made available to the resident.

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Teaching opportunities

Residents have numerous opportunities to assist in the teaching of students and residents from multiple disciplines including pharmacy, medicine, nursing, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. BUMC is a clinical rotation site for students from the University of North Texas, Texas Tech and the University Of Texas College of Pharmacy. Residents will co-precept the longitudinal pharmacy students. A teaching certificate is offered in conjunction with the University of North Texas College of Pharmacy. The teaching certificate is a comprehensive, longitudinal experience that begins with didactic and web-based curriculum. It also involves presenting a lecture and facilitating small group learning.