The PGY2 pharmacy residency program in internal medicine builds upon the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) 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 that improves medication therapy. Residents who successfully complete an accredited PGY2 pharmacy residency should possess competencies that qualify them for clinical pharmacist and/or faculty positions and position them to be eligible for attainment of board certification in the specialized practice area (when board certification for the practice area exists).
The Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) PGY2 internal medicine pharmacy residency program prepares its graduates to assume positions in adult internal medicine as clinical specialists employed by an institution or as assistant professors at a college of pharmacy. YNHH is a university teaching hospital providing residents unique rotation opportunities with specific service lines including geriatrics, end-stage liver disease, end-stage renal disease and cardiology. Our residents will have the opportunity for direct patient care activities, research, administration, project management and teaching skills.
The PGY2 Internal Medicine year consists of a series of learning experiences that span a 52-week period. Specific learning experiences and goals will be accomplished in discrete blocks of time, while others will occur longitudinally throughout the duration of the residency. Residency time will be generally structured as follows:
| Residency duration | 52 weeks |
| Orientation/Training | 2 weeks (internal candidate) 4 weeks (external candidate) |
| Attendance at two meetings of resident’s choice | |
| Interviews/Holidays/Time off |
14 days plus 3 interview days (not continuous) |
| Project days | 5 days (additional days can be approved upon request) |
| Residency Learning Experiences | 50 weeks (internal candidate) 48 weeks (external candidate) |
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1. Internal Medicine (inpatient)
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4 weeks each |
| 2. Infectious Diseases |
4 weeks |
| 3. Cardiology (Goodyear) |
4 weeks |
| 4. Psychiatry |
4 weeks |
| Academia | 2 weeks |
| Addiction Medicine | 2 weeks |
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Young Adult/Transitional Age Psychiatry |
2 weeks |
| Pain/Palliative Care | 2 or 4 weeks |
| Oncology |
4 weeks |
| Geriatric Psychiatry | 4 weeks |
| Pharmacy Administration | 2 weeks |
| Sterile Products | 2 weeks |
| Transitions of Care | 2 weeks |
| Other rotations as approvedby the residency program director |
*Any staffing shift including night shift may be filled at discretion of residency director
The learning experiences will include a series of learning activities designed to expose the resident to many facets of pharmacy practice with guidance from the preceptor. An individual resident plan and calendar will be developed for each resident.
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