PGY2 Pharmacy Residency Programs

This residency focuses on the development of strong clinical and practice management skills through providing care to ambulatory patients in a variety of primary care and specialty clinic settings across our healthcare system. 

The resident will participate in both longitudinal and block experiences with core experiences including heart failure, antiarrhythmic, anticoagulation, population health, and family medicine. The variety of experiences allows the resident to see multiple practice structures as well as the ability to practice under a wide range of collaborative practice agreements. The resident will have the opportunity to establish individual relationships with diverse groups of patients and a wide range of attending physicians, medical residents, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals. The resident will also have the opportunity to precept and be a part of layered learning experiences.

The resident will gain additional in-depth experience with research and leadership from a system level. There are several elective options and project opportunities for residents to pursue based on their individual interests. Graduates of the program are well positioned to develop and deliver pharmacy services in either specialty clinics or primary care.

This residency focuses on multiple ICU settings, including two 31-bed Medical Intensive Care Units (MICU1, MICU2), a 16-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and a 32-bed Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.

Residents collaborate with multiple critical care physician groups to improve the care of critical patients through daily intervention, as well as global changes made from the committee level – enhancing the experiential and educational opportunities for residents.

The Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center offers vast training experiences that can be tailored to the interest of each resident. Averaging greater than 80,000 annual visits, with more than a quarter of those patients being admitted, the Grant Medical Center Emergency Department contains 65 beds, including a 3-bed trauma and resuscitation bay, in addition to a closed behavioral health unit. Grant Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma Center that averages 6,000 trauma patients annually.

Pharmacists, in addition to medication history technicians, offer dedicated 24/7 coverage in the Emergency Department. Residents will participate directly in patient care emergencies, including cardiac arrest; trauma response; stroke, STEMI, and sepsis alerts; airway emergencies; and perioperative emergencies. Additional experiences, some of which are off-site, include disaster preparedness, free-standing emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, trauma, and toxicology.

This residency focuses on leading oncology practice change in a variety of practice settings through experiences with a diverse cancer population as clinical experts in the field of oncology pharmacy.

The resident will actively participate in staff development programs and system-level decision making. Longitudinal ambulatory care training establishes individual relationships with patients and other health care professionals. There are several elective options and project opportunities for residents to pursue individual interests.

Graduates of the OhioHealth Pain and Palliative Care PGY2 Pharmacy Residency program are equipped to practice independently as a specialist in hospice, pain, and/or palliative care. Core rotations focus on acute and chronic pain management, palliative care, hospice, addiction medicine, and medication safety/opioid stewardship. Additionally, leadership, teaching, and research are required longitudinal rotations that engage and develop the resident throughout the year. Additional electives are available to customize the residency to fulfill the resident’s goals and career aspirations.

The residency year will culminate with a 4-week Palliative Care Capstone rotation in which the resident will function as the primary palliative care pharmacist on the inpatient palliative care interdisciplinary team with a preceptor facilitating as appropriate. This PGY2 Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacy Residency fosters independent hospice, pain, and palliative pharmacy clinicians to 1) enhance existing pain and palliative care pharmacy services, 2) launch new pain and palliative pharmacy services, and/or 3) lead pain and palliative pharmacy initiatives as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Preceptors will train, coach, and foster the resident to become an independent clinician proficient in all competencies, goals, and objectives set forth by ASHP.