Is the Legacy Health PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency ASHP accredited?
The PGY2 Infectious Diseases program is ASHP accredited.
How many residents does Legacy Health accept?
Legacy Health trains one PGY2 resident in Infectious Diseases each year.
What are the learning experiences for PGY2 residents?
- Required Experience
- Orientation & Training
- Operations (Longitudinal, every 3rd weekend for 6 months)
- Research Project (Longitudinal)
- Practice Management (Longitudinal)
- Required Core Rotations
- General Infectious Diseases Service
- Advanced Infectious Diseases 1
- Advanced Infectious Diseases 2
- Legacy Health Infectious Diseases Clinic (Longitudinal, 1/2 day once weekly for 6 months)
- Antimicrobial Stewardship (Longitudinal, year-long)
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Staffing (Longitudinal, every 3rd weekend for 6 months)
- Elective Rotations
- Advanced Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Cardiovascular ICU/Progressive Cardiac Care Unit
- Critical Care - Neurotrauma ICU
- Emergency Medicine
- Epidemiology and Outcomes at OSU / OHSU
- Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases & Stewardship
- Informatics
- Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Transplant Infectious Diseases at OHSU
What teaching opportunities are available for residents?
Legacy Health is a teaching facility for medical, surgical and nursing residents, medical students, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students, as well as other disciplines.
The infectious diseases rotation employs a layered-model of learning, which empowers learners to teach other learners with less years of experience while having a robust mentoring resource in more advanced learners and preceptors.
If residents elect to complete the Citywide Teaching Certificate Program, they can also teach at either the OHSU/OSU College of Pharmacy or Pacific University School of Pharmacy.
What are the qualification requirements for residency candidates?
- Pharm.D. degree from ACPE accredited school of pharmacy or MS/BS with clinical experience
- Completion of an ASHP accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency
- Eligible for Oregon state pharmacist licensure
- Submission of application through the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS)
- Registration in the ASHP Residency Matching Program
- Complete application received by January 2nd.
What is the compensation for Legacy pharmacy residents?
The resident's monthly stipend is competitive with the local and national market. The exact amount can be found each year on the ASHP Residency Directory. Legacy Benefits include family health, vision and dental insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, a matched tax shelter annuity, travel allowance and a reduced–cost public transportation pass. Legacy usually pays for resident travel but reimbursement is not guaranteed.
Does Legacy Health sponsor H-1B Visas for foreign students or PGY1 residents interested in pursuing residency training?
Legacy Health is not able to sponsor visas for foreign students or PGY1 residents interested in pursuing residency training.
