Postgraduate Year One (PGY-1) – Cape Coral Hospital

Clinical Practice Advancement

This 11-month learning experience will give the resident practical experience in the application of the medical literature combined with clinical judgment and input from affected disciplines to affect clinical outcomes of patients on a global level. Residents will participate in the following activities throughout the residency:

• Development of a drug class review, monograph, treatment guideline, treatment protocol, utilization management criteria and/or order set to be presented to the Pharmacy Clinical Practice Council, Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee and other committees as applicable
• Additional opportunities for quality improvement efforts in support of drug use policy include medication use evaluations, performance improvement projects, development or revisions of Lee Health pharmacy guidelines or reference documents, and other ongoing clinical projects

Medication Use Evaluation (MUE)

In this 6-month learning experience, the resident will lead a Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) of which the results will be presented as a poster at the ASHP Midyear Meeting.

Project Management

In this 9-month learning experience each resident is required to lead and complete a quality research project to enhance the residents' professional growth and benefit the department through innovative changes in the way pharmacy is practiced. The research project will be presented at the Florida Residency Conference in the Spring.

Pharmacy Practice Leadership Seminar

During this 6-month learning experience residents will be hosted by the focus on personal leadership and habits for personal success, organizational leadership and transformation change management. Residents will gain an understanding about issues in leadership and how to constructively handle their own typical human emotional responses to leadership situations. Residents will learn practical skills and analyze their own abilities in developing a personal leadership vision. Learning methods include reading, discussion, reflective writing, and ongoing interaction with managers and leaders.

Pharmacy Practice Experience

Residents will be required to staff 1 weekend every 4 weeks (two 8-hour shifts) for a total of 22 shifts throughout the year. To supplement the weekend shifts residents will also staff one 4-hour evening shift for 3 weeks per month. In addition, each resident will be required to staff one of the following holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, or New Year’s Day. It is expected that the resident work Fourth of July (if on a weekday), Memorial Day and Labor Day unless requested off.

Lee Health Medical Writing Certificate

The LH Medical Writing Certificate program is an optional certificate designed to allow participants to move through a structured and systematic educational experience to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and performance behaviors to successfully develop and edit scholarly and scientific materials.