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Posted: 14-Aug-24
Location: Melbourne, Florida
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PGY2 Critical Care (2 positions):
The critical care residency program at Holmes Regional Medical Center is an ASHP accredited 12 month program offering core-learning experiences in medical, surgical, neuroscience, and cardiovascular intensive care as well as infectious disease, emergency medicine, and eICU. The program will be customized to promote achievement of the resident’s professional goals.
Holmes Regional Medical Center is located in the middle of Florida’s famed space coast and is approximately 5 miles from the coastline. As the first hospital in Brevard County, it has been serving the population since 1937. It features a level II Trauma center, the region’s only aeromedical helicopter (First Flight), a level II neonatal ICU, primary stroke center, and Health First VitalWatch, central Florida’s only electronic intensive care unit (eICU) which remotely monitors all ICU beds across the four hospital system. Holmes Regional has a 22 bed MICU, 22 bed SICU, 14 bed CVICU and 60 bed ER with 4 resuscitation/trauma bays.
The Department of Pharmacy’s mission is to provide quality patient care by optimizing medication use and ensuring medication safety. Integrated throughout the hospital, the pharmacy team is committed to evidence-based medicine and collaborating with other healthcare professionals to provide the highest quality pharmaceutical services. Pharmacists are involved in physician-led critical care, trauma, and general medical rounds, cost savings and quality improvement projects, drug therapy surveillance, medication order entry, preparation and delivery and precepting of residents and APPE students.
Residency Program Website: hf.org/pharmacyresidency
Program Structure:
The year of residency begins with orientation followed by ten learning experiences (including 2 electives). Each learning experience is four weeks long except Medical ICU I and Surgical ICU I, which are six weeks long.
Required Rotations
- Medical ICU I
- Surgical ICU I (trauma/neuro)
- Cardiovascular ICU
- Surgical ICU II
- Infectious Disease
- Emergency Medicine
- Medical ICU II
- eICU
Elective Rotations
- NICU
- Trauma
- Any required rotation with an additional focus
- Offsite electives in burns, neurocritical care and transplant (liver, heart, or lung SOT) are available
Longitudinal Experiences
- Inpatient clinical staffing
- eICU staffing
- ICU Recovery Clinic
- Research project
- UF Teaching Certificate Program (optional)
Additional Residency Activities
- Grand rounds presentation
- Formal patient case presentations (differential-styled patient cases to engage co-residents)
- Medication use evaluation
- SCCM journal club webinar (if selected)
- Co-precepting of APPE students and PGY-1 residents
- Precepting of PGY1 resident grand rounds and MUE
- Committee participation for P&T, clinical pharmacy council, critical care, sepsis, and code blue
- Code blue response
Program Benefits
- ACLS/PALS certification
- AHLS certification (optional)
- ABLS certification (optional)
- ATLS certification (optional)
- Travel and registration allowances for Florida Residency Conference, Midyear Clinical Meeting, and SCCM Annual Congress
Salary
- $56,000
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Must have a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college or university
- Must be licensed or eligible for licensure as a registered pharmacist in the state of Florida at the start of the residency program
- Must be in the process of completing an ASHP accredited PGY1 residency program
- Must participate in and adhere to the rules of the Resident Matching Program process
Application Checklist:
- Letter of intent
- Official transcripts
- Curriculum vitae
- Three professional recommendations, at least two of which should be from clinical preceptors
Note: We do not sponsor international visas, however TN visas are accepted. Employment is contingent upon satisfying eligibility requirements (i.e. background check verification, drug testing, physical examination, authorization to work in the United Sates, etc). Residents will be required to obtain licensure as a registered pharmacist in the state of Florida within 90 days of the program start date to continue employment.