Learning Experiences
PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency
Prisma Health Richland Hospital – University of South Carolina
One-month experiences (required)
- Pharmacy operations/orientation
- Cardiovascular intensive care (surgery)
- Coronary care unit
- Emergency medicine (critical care)
- Medical intensive care
- Medical intensive care – teaching experience
- Neuroscience intensive care
- Pediatric intensive care
- Surgical/trauma intensive care
One-month experiences (elective)
- Academia
- Antimicrobial stewardship and support team
- Advanced experience in one or more of the required experiences above
- Drug information/informatics
- Emergency medicine (toxicology)
- Medical stepdown/surgical stepdown units
- Neonatal intensive care
- Nutrition
Longitudinal experiences (required)
- Central operations and distribution – every fourth weekend (Saturday and Sunday shift)
- Complete one medication utilization evaluation project in critical care with departmental impact to be presented at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting
- Complete one major project in critical care with departmental impact to be presented at the Southeastern Residency Conference (SERC)
- Leadership and practice management
- Medical emergencies
- University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy Clinical Teaching Certificate (at discretion of director if teaching certificate completed during PGY1)
Other requirements
- Provide a minimum of one Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)-accredited continuing education program to the department
- One publication submission to a peer-reviewed journal
- Initiate and conduct a minimum of four journal club discussions
- Actively participate on Critical Care/Anesthesia Drug Specialty Team (DST), Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) and Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) committees
- Participate in pharmacy resident case conference
- Co-precept pharmacy students
- Provide six in-service programs to pharmacists, nurses, medical residents, etc.