Postgraduate Year Two - Critical Care (PGY2 CC)

Project Management (Research Project and MUE)
(11 months*)

Each resident is required to mentor a PGY1 resident in the completion of a Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) in the Fall. The MUE will be presented as a poster at the ASHP Midyear Meeting.

Each resident is required to complete an IRC-approved 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.

Monthly PGY2 Newsletter (The Dose of Critical Care)
(11 months)

Each resident will publish a minimum of three articles in the LH Pharmacy Newsletter, “The Dose”. Each resident will be responsible for the content, coordination and publication of a minimum of three pharmacy newsletters. The PGY2 Critical Care resident will also serve as an editor of at least 3 PGY1 Dose newsletter articles. The intended audience is pharmacy staff and healthcare providers, such as physicians and midlevel providers.

Clinical Practice Advancement (11 months*)

This 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:

• Prepare a formulary monograph and/or a drug class review and present the recommendations to the Pharmacy Clinical Practice Council, Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee and other committees as applicable
• Prepare a treatment guideline or protocol and present to appropriate committees
• Review the Renal Dosing Chart in the Spring and Fall
• Conduct the CODE Blue class in the Spring and Fall

Pharmacy Practice Experience (11 months)

PGY2 Residents will staff 22 weekend days (8-hour shifts) starting in August through June. The following weekends may be excluded from the resident staffing schedule up to the RPD’s discretion: FSHP Annual Meeting, ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and specialty area conferences. Depending on the preceptor schedule and needs of the department, a PGY2 resident may be scheduled as frequently as every third weekend. The resident will be required to work 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.

Teaching certificate - exempt if completed as a PGY1
(7 months)

ACPE (8 months)

Each resident will prepare and present two one-hour ACPE-accredited continuing education programs.

Resident Advisor (12 months)