This PGY1 pharmacy residency program is based out of St. Anthony Hospital, a tertiary care center and trauma one facility located in Lakewood, CO. The inpatient pharmacy department is comprised of approximately 52 professional staff (30 pharmacists and 22 technicians). The residency program is affiliated with Regis University School of Pharmacy. In addition to the PGY1 residency program, the facility offers a PGY2 program in critical care and the pharmacy department serves as a teaching site for APPE students from the Regis University School of Pharmacy and the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy.
Fringe benefits include health / dental / life / liability insurance, 20 days of time off, and a travel allowance for required meetings and conferences. Benefits listed below will be included:
- Health Care: Residents will receive medical / dental insurance.
- Paid Time Off: Residents receive 20 days of time off allotted for holidays, sick days, professional meetings, vacation days, or approved professional days for interviews, etc. Residents may not miss more than three days of any single learning experience without prior approval.
- Parking: Residents will have free parking arranged.
- Travel: Each resident is given a stipend to assist in meeting the expense of registration for a professional meeting(s) as approved by the preceptor. Generally, this will be used for the ASHP Midyear meeting and the Regional Residency Conference.
It is required that the resident become a licensed pharmacist.
Residents will work alternating weekends in pharmacy operations.
Residents are required to work one major holiday (Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day) and one minor holiday (i.e. Labor Day, Memorial Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day) during their residency year.
The program offers required rotations in internal medicine, transitions of care, infectious disease, emergency medicine, medicine subspecialties, critical care, administration and leadership, ambulatory care, and pharmacy operations. Numerous electives are also available in areas such as hematology/oncology, specialty ICU’s, medicine subspecialties, solid organ transplant, and others.
Required:
- Orientation (4 weeks)
- Internal medicine (4 weeks)
- Internal medicine subspecialty- neurology, cardiology, trauma (4 weeks)
- Transitions of care (4 weeks)
- Ambulatory care (4 weeks)
- Critical care I (4 weeks)
- Critical care II (4 weeks)
- Infectious disease (4 weeks)
- Emergency medicine (4 weeks)
- Administration and Leadership (2 weeks)
- Chief resident (longitudinal- quarter)
- Academia and Teaching (longitudinal- year long)
- Project Management (longitudinal- year long)
- Pharmacy Operations (longitudinal- year long)
Examples of Elective Rotations: (4 weeks)
- Critical care (various sub-specialties)
- Internal medicine subspecialty (neurology, cardiology or trauma)
- Operating Room
- Advanced infectious disease
- Advanced emergency medicine
- Advanced ambulatory care
- Concentrated leadership and management
- Neurorehabilitation
- Solid organ transplant
- Academia (concentrated)
Each submitted application is reviewed by a group comprised of the residency program director, administrative and leadership staff, and residency preceptors. The group reviews the whole application including the letter of intent, curriculum vitae, and letters of recommendation to select candidates for a preliminary telephone interview. Based on the all the above criteria, candidates are selected and invited for a virtual interview. The same group will decide on the rank list for the match based on application, interview, and departmental fit.
The on-site (or virtual) interview is a half day interview. The candidates have several individual interviews with program preceptors and administrative staff. Candidates will be required to present a 15 minute case presentation on a patient / topic of choice. Our goal in conducting the on-site (or virtual) interviews is to assess communication skills and career goals to determine a good fit between candidates and our program. The on-site (or virtual) interviews are also designed for the candidate to receive as many answers about the program as possible.
Residents are required to staff in pharmacy operations every other weekend. The residents will rotate working operational and clinical shifts on weekends. Residents will not be pulled from clinical rotations to work in pharmacy operations.
We strive to structure each resident’s rotation schedule to reflect the resident’s career goals and interests. Although residents have a core set of rotations for the residency program, we will work to adjust rotations and elective selections to help meet future career goals.
Yes. We are able to offer PGY1 residents the opportunity to complete the teaching certificate program offered through the University of Colorado School Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
This might be an option in future years, but at this time, we are unable to sponsor visas for residents who are not U.S. Citizens.