The pediatric residency is a one-year ASHP-accredited specialty residency that allows the opportunity for the pediatric resident to strengthen his/her clinical skills by focusing on providing pharmaceutical care to pediatric patients. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital is a 189-bed children’s hospital and is part of UCSF Medical Center. The children’s hospital includes 58 neonatal ICU beds, 37 hematology/oncology/BMT beds, 28 general pediatric and surgical beds, 28 transitional care beds (transplant and cardiac step-down), 38 ICU beds, and 36 obstetrics and labor and delivery beds. The primary emphasis of the program is to provide in-depth clinical experience in a variety of areas within pediatric and neonatal medicine. The pharmacy resident will be a core member of the interdisciplinary medical team during the acute care rotations and will participate in patient care rounds on a daily basis. There is also a significant teaching component associated with this residency program and the resident will earn a teaching certificate. The UCSF Medical Center is closely affiliated with the UCSF School of Pharmacy, and the resident will have the opportunity to teach Doctor of Pharmacy students in two courses in the School of Pharmacy and precept Doctor of Pharmacy students throughout the year.  Residents who successfully complete PGY2 residency programs are prepared for advanced patient care or other specialized positions, and board certification in the advanced practice area, if available.

At a minimum, each resident will spend two thirds or more of their time involved in direct patient care activities. PGY2 Pediatric Traditional pathway residents must complete 5 core patient care rotations which can be customized to accommodate for a longer experience and may be repeated as "Part II" to incorporate advanced learning experience elements.  Specialty pathway residents (Critical Care or Oncology) will spend at least 50% of their year focused in their specialty field and projects will be tailored (as possible) to focus on the specialty field.

Applicants must be a graduate of an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy or otherwise be eligible for licensure in California. Additionally, applicants must be participating in, or have completed, an ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program or one in the ASHP accreditation process (i.e., one with candidate or preliminary accreditation status).

Non-US citizens must be eligible to work and live in the US by obtaining an appropriate visa and must be eligible to work as a licensed pharmacist in California. We do not sponsor visas for foreign pharmacy residency applicants. Non-US and US citizens who graduate from a foreign school of pharmacy must first be certified by examination before the process of licensure in the US can begin.

Please see residency website for further application details

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/residencies/pgy2-pediatrics

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