Postgraduate Year Two (PGY-2) – Infectious Diseases

Pharmacy Practice Experience (11 months)

PGY2 Residents will staff a minimum of two 8-hour weekend shifts a month 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. Residents will not be required to work more than 22 total weekend shifts during the residency year. 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.

Clinical Practice Advancement (12 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:

• Preparation and presentation of two ACPE-accredited pharmacotherapy lectures
• Implementation of activities for observation of US Antibiotic Awareness Week
• Formulary monograph and/or drug class review development and presentation to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, Pharmacy Clinical Practice Council and Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
• Quality improvement efforts in support of drug use policy including medication use evaluations, performance improvement projects, development or revisions of Lee Health pharmacy guidelines or reference documents, and other ongoing clinical projects
• Coordinate agenda items and chair a minimum of 2 Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee meetings
• Residents will submit a completed Medication Utilization Evaluation (MUE) for poster presentation at the ASHP Midyear Meeting
• Review and/or development of policies, procedures or orders sets to improve patient outcomes and/or patient safety
• Review and update the Antimicrobial Stewardship website annually

Project Management (12 months)

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 either the Florida Residency Conference or a specialty conference (i.e. MAD-ID) in the Spring.

Resident Newsletter (The Dose) (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 Infectious Diseases resident will also serve as an editor of at least 2 PGY1 Dose newsletter articles. The intended audience is pharmacy staff and healthcare providers, such as physicians and midlevel providers.

Teaching Certificate Program (not required if completed during PGY1) (7 months)

The Teaching Certificate Program rotation is a seven-month longitudinal learning experience for PGY2 ID residents who have not previously completed a teaching certificate. The primary goal of the Teaching Certificate Program (TCP) is to provide residents with formal training in the delivery of pharmacy education in order to enhance their current role as preceptors or to prepare for their future role as a preceptor. The TCP is a Lee Health ACPE approved certificate program.

Lee Health Medical Writing Certificate (Optional)

The primary goal of the Medical Writing Certificate program is to provide participants with formal training in the development and editing of scientific and scholarly literature. The 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. The Medical Writing Certificate is composed 20 hours worth of didactic (5 hours) and application based (15 hours) activities for CPE credit. Participants who complete both the didactic and application sections will be awarded a certificate that documents their successful completion of this program.