PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency

National Match Code: 723669

PGY2 Emergency Medicine Program Director
Cathyyen Dang, PharmD, BCEMP
Telephone: 414-805-0481
Fax: 414-805-9283
Email: [email protected]

PGY2 Emergency Medicine Program Coordinator
Jessica Feih, PharmD, BCCCP
Telephone: 414-805-0481
Email: [email protected]

Duration/Type: 12-month residency
Number of Positions: 2
Application Deadline: Jan. 2, 2025
Starting Date: July 7, 2025
Stipend: $53,040

PGY2 Emergency Medicine Preceptors

PGY2 Emergency Medicine Resident Alumni

The purpose of this PGY2 pharmacy residency program is to build on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of practice. PGY2 residencies provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings. Residents who successfully complete an accredited PGY2 pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification, if available.

Features

This program is designed to advance the resident’s skills in emergency medicine, pre-hospital patient care and clinical toxicology. Training will be provided at a Level 1 trauma, comprehensive stroke, academic medical and tertiary referral center. The core curricula are focused on creating a well-rounded clinical practitioner who possesses the unique skill sets needed for emergency medicine practice.

Clinical toxicology is an important component of the program. The resident will work closely with toxicologists during their longitudinal experience to lay the foundation for board certification through the American Board of Applied Toxicology (ABAT). Residents will have ample opportunities for teaching and research in EM and toxicology.

• Minimum of eight months of emergency department, toxicology and critical care rotational and longitudinal experiences.
• Participation in longitudinal toxicology and pre-hospital/flight medicine experiences with the Wisconsin Poison Center and Milwaukee County EMS/Flight for Life.
• Research projects are tailored to the interest of the resident and external publications and/or presentations are encouraged.
• Rotations are highly customizable and electives are tailored to the interest of the resident but can include any of the many specialties at Froedtert Hospital or repeat of a prior rotation.
• Residents will have the opportunity to precept PGY1 pharmacy residents and APPE students on clinical rotations.
• ACLS and PALS training will be provided.
• Research Certificate unless otherwise completed

Requirements for Acceptance

• Completion of PGY1 pharmacy residency
• Applicants are required to submit a program application through PhORCAS. Please follow the application instructions.
• Please ask your letter of recommendation writers to specifically comment on the following characteristics in PhorCas: Ability to organize and manage time, Ability to work with peers and communicate effectively, Clinical problem solving skills and Willingness to accept constructive criticism
• If possible, we would like your letter writers to come from project advisors and acute care preceptors.
• In lieu of a letter of intent, we would like you to submit answers to these supplemental questions (please limit to 2 pages total):
  1. Briefly describe your experience/exposure to emergency medicine or toxicology (i.e., rotations, work, volunteer, shadowing, etc).
  2. Briefly describe your responsibilities during a typical day on rotation in the emergency department (ED), toxicology, or ED work experience. You may include a bulleted list.
  3. Please answer the following questions related to the program you are currently completing your PGY1 residency at (or current employer if previously completed PGY1):
     1. What is the name of your PGY1 program or current employer?
     2. Is this program currently ASHP accredited?
     3. How many hospital beds does your institution have?
     4. How many beds does the emergency department have? How many annual patient visits does the emergency department have?
     5. How would you describe the medical center you are completing your PGY1 experience in (ie. Academic medical center, non-academic medical center, community/regional medical center, etc)?
     6. Is the hospital a trauma center? If so, what level? Does the hospital care for acute stroke and/or STEMI patients?
  4. Does your PGY1 residency require an on-call experience? If so, please briefly describe the schedule and responsibilities of a typical on-call shift. If no on-call experience, please mark N/A.
  5. Please answer the following questions related to your staffing experience:
     1. Where is your primary staffing location (ie. decentralized floor, decentralized ICU, centralized, specialist [kinetics, TPN, etc]) and patient population (ie. cardiology, general medicine adults and peds)? If a combination of locations, please describe.
     2. How often do you staff?
     3. Briefly describe responsibilities during a typical day of staffing including average number of patients cared for, clinical activities, acuity of patients, and any other pertinent information. You may include a bulleted list.
  6. Share a meaningful personal hurdle you've encountered, something that has played a role in shaping who you are today. Please discuss how you navigated through this challenge and any insights or self-discoveries it brought about.
  7. In 2 to 4 sentences, where do you see yourself in ten years?
  8. Anything you would like to share that is not on your CV or application. (optional)

Learning Experiences

Learning Experience – Required Introductory

• Hospital Training (for non-Froedtert PGY1s) 5 weeks
• EM Residency Orientation (overlaps with hospital training and EMI rotation) 8 weeks

Learning Experience – Required Core

• Emergency Medicine I¹ (4 weeks)
• Emergency Medicine II (4 weeks)
• Emergency Medicine III (4 weeks)
• Community Emergency Medicine/ICU (offsite at Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital) (4 weeks)
• Night shift Emergency Medicine and ICU (1 week (7 shifts))
• Toxicology/Poison Center1 (4 weeks)
• Medical Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
• Surgical or Cardiovascular or Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (selected by PGY2) (4 weeks)

Learning Experience – Required Longitudinal

• Clinical Staffing (10 months (Sept through June), 5 weeks + 16 weekends²)
• Toxicology (10 months (Sept through June), ~½ to ⅔ day every Thursday³)
• Emergency Medical Services/Flight for Life (EMS/FFL), Standards & Practice Committee (6 months (August to January or January to June); committee meetings once per month)
• Emergency Medicine Administration & Leadership (12 months; meetings scheduled once per month)
• Longitudinal Research (12 months (July to June); partial day on Thursdays available for projects)
• Medication Safety / Error Review (10 months (Sept through June), split coverage with co-resident)
• Professional speaking (10 months (Sept through June), based on scheduled speaking experiences)

Learning Experience – Elective⁴

• Surgical Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
• Emergency Medicine IV (2-4 weeks)
• Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
• Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
• Inpatient Hematology or Bone Marrow Transplant (2 weeks)
• HIV Outpatient Clinic (2 weeks)
• Infectious Diseases (4 weeks)
• Pain Stewardship (2 - 4 weeks)
• VA Medical Center Emergency Department (4 weeks)
• Burn Intensive Care Unit at outside institution as available (2 - 4 weeks)
• Children’s Wisconsin Emergency Department (offsite) (2 weeks)

¹ Designates rotations that must be completed prior to any elective rotations
² These staffing requirements are specific to the PGY2 EM program and are approximate. Depending on staffing needs, weekend shifts may be changed to weekday shifts and vice versa. The total number of required shifts would remain the same. Weekend is defined as both Saturday and Saturday, thus 16 weekends = 32 shifts.
³ These are not half days in the traditional sense and are not either morning or afternoon. They are shortened formal hours and may vary by week. 
⁴ Other elective learning experiences may be developed based on resident interest and preceptor availability. For internal candidates, the total number of elective weeks is 9; the number of different rotations varies depending on the duration of the selected elective experience and the amount of paid time off the resident takes. For external candidates, the total number of elective weeks is 5; the number of different rotations varies depending on the duration of the selected elective experience and the amount of paid time off the resident takes.

Requirements and Expectations

The following are some of the requirements and expectations of participants in the PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency at Froedtert Hospital.

Presentations/Education

• Emergency Medicine Case Simulations with EM residents x 4
• Critical Care Journal Club
• Flight for Life Combined Crew Meeting (FFL CCM) Education or pre-hospital (EMS/FFL) education equivalent
• Didactic Lecture for MCW School of Pharmacy
• Facilitate MCW School of Pharmacy Patient Care Lab x 3
• Specialists in Poison Information (SPI) education

Research/ Projects

• Primary project, presented at WACEP/Wisconsin EM Research Forum or other professional meeting and submitted as a manuscript in publishable form
• Flipped research project protocol and present at Pharmacy Research Committee
• Toxicology research project, with abstract submitted to NACCT
• Administrative/leadership project
•  Case report

Longitudinal Experiences

• Toxicology: Attend and participate in patient call-backs and toxicology rounds at Wisconsin Poison Center once weekly
• Standards and Practice Committee: Attendance and participation during half the year, including any deliverables as approved by the advisor
• Complete ED medication errors (patient safety events) analysis every other month
• Staff 5 weeks, 16 weekends, and 2 holidays

Certifications

• Wisconsin Pharmacist Licensure
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) [if not otherwise certified]
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) or Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) [whichever is available]
• Medication Administration Certificate
• Research certificate [if not completed during PGY1 year]
• Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS) [as available]