PGY2 Internal Medicine

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The Nebraska Medicine PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency program offers residents a collaborative and comprehensive training environment within internal medicine pharmacy practice. 

This program is designed to provide specialized training in internal medicine as well as specialty areas with the goal of developing competent practitioners qualified to function as highly skilled clinical pharmacists.

With our decentralized clinical pharmacist model, residents have the opportunity to actively collaborate in multidisciplinary care with provider and academic teams. 

Residents will be integrally involved in transitions of care, education of patients and clinicians as well as patient-centered, evidence-based medical care for a diverse patient population. Residents will also gain valuable precepting skills while serving as a preceptor for pharmacy students and working closely with PGY1 residents within various clinical rotations. 

The program includes a variety of elective options, like neurology, cardiology, critical care, transplant and pediatrics, which allows for tailored instruction for the individual based on needs and interests.
 

Program highlights

Board-certified pharmacist preceptors

  • The majority of preceptors for the program are certified with the Board of Pharmacy Specialties® (BCPS or specialty certification for their respective practice area).

Precepting

  • Residents have the opportunity to co-precept students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy as well as PGY1 residents.
  • Residents are encouraged to take part in Preceptor Development activities.
  • Additional teaching opportunities include a teaching certificate program (if not completed during PGY1 residency) and an elective academia rotation

Stewardship (anticoagulation, antimicrobial, diabetes and pain)

  • The PGY2 resident will gain valuable experience with established, nationally recognized stewardship programs in anticoagulation, infectious disease, diabetes and pain.
  • Stewardship program honors and recognitions:
    • Anticoagulation Center of Excellence.
    • U.S. News and World Report High Performing Hospitals for Diabetes (2021-2022).
    • Joint Commission Center of Excellence in Inpatient Diabetes Care.
    • IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. 

Transitions of care

  • The PGY2 will gain direct experience through committee involvement, staffing and an optional ambulatory care learning experience. 

Multidisciplinary, team-based care

  • Large, academic medical center with numerous learning and teaching opportunities across a wide variety of disease states.
  • Decentralized staffing model where pharmacists participate in daily patient-centered rounds.
  • Pharmacists provide collaborative care and active medication management via a variety of consults, policies and protocols. 

Wellbeing and culture

  • The pharmacy department offers a family-like atmosphere.
  • Pride and respect are a priority with Nebraska Medicine.
  • ITEACH values are at the center of everything we do.
  • The pharmacy department wellness committee offers a variety of resources and activities to promote resident and staff well-being.
     

Rotations

Required rotations (2-4 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

  • Medication Use and Drug Policy.
  • Pharmacy Management.
  • Patient Care Staffing.
  • Research (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 4 weeks. If this elective is selected, another 2 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) designed to ensure that residents gain experience and can function as a competent internal medicine pharmacists. 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 42 shifts (including weekend, evening and holiday shifts).
  2. PGY2 residents must work one holiday.
  3. Staffing will include a diverse patient population.

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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