PGY2 Internal Medicine

Welcome!

The Nebraska Medicine PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency program offers a unique, comprehensive, and stimulating learning environment that develops residents to function independently as highly skilled pharmacist practitioners.
As integral members of the multidisciplinary care team, residents will develop the teaching, assessment, and communication skills necessary to educate pharmacy learners, health care professionals, and patients.

The program has flexibility to allow the training year to be customized for each resident based upon their goals, interests, and previous experience.

Program highlights

Multidisciplinary, team-based care

  • Large, academic medical center with numerous learning and teaching opportunities encompassing a diverse patient population
  • Collaborate with medical residents, hospitalists, and nurses as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and effective medication therapy management

Pharmacy stewardship (anticoagulation, antimicrobial, diabetes and pain management)

  • Gain valuable experience with established, nationally recognized anticoagulation, antimicrobial, diabetes, and pain management stewardship programs

Transitions of care

  • Obtain direct experience through committee involvement, staffing, and an optional ambulatory care learning experience
  • Gain experience participating in meds-to-beds, the pharmacy intern “P3 extender,” and transitions of care programs

Precepting

  • Co-precept learners from the University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Educate members of the multidisciplinary care team
  • Participate in preceptor development activities

Wellness

  • Participate in department and residency wellness events throughout the year
  • Access to numerous wellness resources
     

Rotations

Required rotations (4 weeks each)

  • Orientation
  • Anticoagulation and Pain Stewardship
  • Diabetes Stewardship
  • General Infectious Diseases/Antimicrobial Stewardship
  • Hospital Medicine
  • Internal Medicine I
  • Internal Medicine II (Teaching and Precepting)
  • Surgical Services

Required longitudinal experiences (12 months)

  • Leadership Development (9 months if not completed as a PGY1)
  • Medication Use and Drug Policy
  • Pharmacy Management
  • Patient Care Staffing
  • Research (Includes four 1-week dedicated project/research weeks throughout the year)
  • Teaching/Pharmacy Grand Rounds

Elective opportunities (3 rotations, 2-4 weeks each)

  • Academia
  • Adult Inpatient Psychiatry
  • Adult Liver Transplant
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Anticoagulation Stewardship*
  • Cardiology
  • Diabetes Stewardship*
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Pediatrics
  • Heart Failure/Heart Transplant
  • Hospital or Family Medicine
  • Kidney/Pancreas Transplant
  • Medical or Neurosurgical ICU
  • Medical Oncology
  • Neurology
  • Pain Stewardship* 
    * Denotes a rotation that is less than four weeks. If this elective is selected, another two-week rotation may be selected, or other schedule adjustments will be made to ensure a total of 52 weeks.
     

Service commitment (staffing) experience (52 weeks, July through June)

PGY2 residents are required to fulfill the service commitment (staffing) to gain experience and can function as a competent internal medicine pharmacist. Each resident will train with qualified preceptors during the first month of residency.

As part of the service commitment for PGY2 residents, the following staffing requirements apply:

  1. The PGY2 internal medicine resident will staff 34 shifts (including weekends, evenings, and one holiday)
  2. The average service commitment (staffing) is one full weekend every four weeks, working an eight-hour shift on both Saturday and Sunday, plus one four-hour weeknight evening shift per month.

Contact

Kristie Hawkins, PharmD, BCPS
PGY2 Internal Medicine 
Residency Program Director
Pharmacist Specialist – Internal Medicine
Nebraska Medicine
981090 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-1090
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Sarah Murphy, PharmD, BCPS
PGY2 Internal Medicine 
Assistant Residency Program Director
Pharmacist Specialist – Internal Medicine
Nebraska Medicine
981090 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-1090
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