Cambridge, Massachusetts
Posted: 08-Aug-23
Location: Sayre, Pennsylvania
PGY1:
Session:
Required Education:
Guthrie, located in rural north central PA and south central NY, is a non-profit integrated health care delivery system. Robert Packer Hospital, the residency's primary location, is a 288-bed tertiary care, level I trauma, teaching referral center.
This residency will provide opportunities for post-graduate pharmacists seeking professional growth beyond entry-level competence. Learning experiences focus on patient care in areas to include:
- Critical care (rounding on adult medical critical care team is a core experience)
- Internal medicine
- Antibiotic stewardship
- Cardiology (inpatient and ambulatory)
- Emergency medicine
- Medication safety
- Pharmacy leadership
- Teaching/learning (ASHP teaching certificate is available)
- Ambulatory infusion (focus on hazardous and sterile medication compounding)
- Project (Pharmacy Clinical Research Microcredential is available)
- Longitudinal staffing (currently every 3rd weekend and one evening every 3rd weekend)
Other experiences available, guided by resident interest may include:
- Ambulatory Hematology/oncology
- Inpatient Hematology/oncology
- Critical care 2 (surgery/trauma team focus)
- Infectious Diseases
- Family Medicine
- Pain Management and Palliative Care
- Community Hospital Pharmacy (at a non teaching hospital - Cortland, NY)
- Adult medicine (at a non-teaching hospital - Corning, NY)
- Emergency Medical Response (longitudinal)
Program strengths include:
- Friendly supportive learning atmosphere
- Flexible customization of individual residency plans
- Interdisciplinary/specialty collaboration (frequently work with other graduate learners, including other Graduate Medical Education programs Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Orthopedic, Anesthesiology residencies and fellowships including Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Hematology/Oncology and Endocrinology)
- Affiliation with multiple colleges of pharmacy including Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wilkes University School of Pharmacy
- Guthrie RPH is a campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
Please visit our website for more information about the program, preceptors, our hospital and the area. https://www.guthrie.org/pharmacy-residency
Candidates must:
- Possess a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy or Foreign Graduate with NABP certificate
- Be eligible for paid work in United States
- Be eligible for licensure in Pennsylvania within 120 days after start of residency
Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital will be participating in the Resident Matching Program and The Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS). Residency candidates must also participate in both.
Interested candidates must submit the following to PhORCAS:
- Curriculum vitae
- Official transcript
- At least three personalized letters of recommendation, include at least two from direct patient care preceptors/supervisors
- Letter of intent, please include your answers to the following questions:
- As it relates to your career goals, why have you chosen to pursue a residency? Why at Guthrie?
- Describe a situation in which you demonstrated application of the pharmacist patient care process and the value of the pharmacist to the care team.
Potential candidates will be invited for a virtual interview, which will involve giving a brief presentation and working up a complex case.
Licensure Requirements
Pharmacy residents are required to be licensed in the state of Pennsylvania. Failure to obtain licensure prior to or within 120 days after program start date may result in dismissal from the program.
Residents who fail to make satisfactory progress on any residency goals and objectives are subject to dismissal, as stated in policies set forth by the program.
Special Note:
We do NOT require NYS pharmacist licensure.
