Program Overview
Legacy’s PGY2 specialty residency is a one-year
experience focused on ambulatory care. Two annual PGY2 positions are available.
Legacy has 26 primary care clinics and over 100 specialty care clinics. Legacy
has clinical pharmacists embedded in 20 out of the 26 primary care clinics.
This specialty residency will focus on providing comprehensive pharmaceutical
care in a variety of multidisciplinary ambulatory settings.
Residents who successfully complete the residency program
will possess the competencies that qualify them for clinical pharmacist and/or
faculty positions and position them to be eligible for attainment of board
certification in ambulatory care practice.
Applications are accepted via the online PhORCAS system
and are due by January 2nd each year.
Program Structure
Residents will train in three primary care clinics with
additional required rotations in administration, population health, and a
longitudinal staffing rotation in a primary care clinic. Additional
expectations include a research project focusing on the establishment,
expansion or evaluation of an ambulatory care service.
Our clinical pharmacists practice under collaborative
pharmacy practice agreements, which include:
- Anticoagulation
- COVID-19
- Depression and Anxiety Related Disorders
- Diabetes
- Gout
- Heart Failure
- Hepatitis C
- Hypertension
- Hypothyroidism
- HIV PrEP
- Lipid Management
- Osteoporosis
- Respiratory Disease
- Smoking Cessation
- Upper GI
- Weight Management
Required rotations include the following:
- Orientation (4 weeks)
- Primary Care I (8 weeks)
- Primary Care II (8 weeks)
- Primary Care III (10 weeks)
- Administration (4 weeks)
- Population Health (4 weeks)
- Staffing in Internal Medicine Clinic (every Monday throughout residency year)
- Practice Management (every Thursday throughout residency year)
- Longitudinal Residency Project (throughout residency year)
Residents will also complete up to three elective
rotations throughout the year. Elective rotations include:
- Advanced Primary Care
- Informatics
- Medication Management Services
- Renal Transplant
- Rural Internal Medicine
- Transitions of Care
- Other elective experiences may be developed based on resident interest and preceptor availability
Teaching
Residents have opportunities to further hone teaching skills, including: a teaching
certificate through a program co-sponsored by the two local colleges of
pharmacy, precepting a PGY1 resident and/or pharmacy students and delivering
continuing medical education to multidisciplinary audiences.
