The TMC Pharmacy Residency Program (PGY1) started in 1993. Four residency positions are available for a 12-month residency starting in the middle of June. The program is accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and is part of the ASHP Midyear Residency Showcase and the ASHP Resident Matching Program.At TMC, residents practice as a respected team member, contributing to the management and development of the entire department. There are many opportunities to work with interdisciplinary teams.Our residency program is unique in that it allows the resident flexibility to individualize the program to meet personal goals and aspirations.Teaching opportunities for residents include either a teaching certificate at TMC with a community focus or teaching certificate with the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy with an academic focus. There is also mentoring and precepting, facilitating case studies, topic discussions, patient presentations, and providing educational in-services to inpatient pharmacy, nursing and ancillary staff, as well as the community. A formal one-hour continuing education lecture is presented to pharmacy and medical staff.Staffing is required every other weekend and includes both central verification and clinical duties.A residency project is required with the summary and results presented at the Western States Residency Conference.The resdiency program falls under the jurisdiction of TMC Health Medical Education Program (THMEP), which was founded in 1963 as the Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program to conduct graduate and continuing medical education programs at Tucson Medical Center and throughout the area. THMEP is a major provider of graduate and continuing medical education in the Southern Arizona region. It has oversight of internal medicine, pediatric, podiatry, transitional residencies, and structural heart and clinical research fellowships in addition to the Pharmacy Residency Program.
Required learning activities in bold; all rotations are 4 weeks in duration.
- Drug Information
- Research Project
- Longitudinal Staffing (every other weekend)
- Concentrated Staffing
- Adult Intensive Care (cardiac/medical/surgical)
- Adult Medicine (medical/surgery/neurology)
- Pediatrics/PICU/NICU/Women's Health
- Administrative/Management
- Nutrition Support
- Adult Cardiology
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Infectious Disease
- Emergency Medicine
- Intravenous Admixture
- Informatics
- Multidisciplinary Acute Care
- Opioid Stewardship
- Glycemic Management
TMC offers many benefits to its residents, including:
- Competitive salary
- Lunch allowance
- Paid time off (for vacation and sick leave)
- Health benefits
- Designated work space in pharmacy with computers
- Travel allowance/Registration: ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Western States Residency Conference
The application deadline is Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.We only accept applications through PhORCAS via ASHP at www.ashp.org/Professional-Development/Residency-Information/Residency-Program-Directors/PhORCAS. Please provide three letters of recommendation with your personal letter of intent and curriculum vitae.An applicant must be a U.S. citizen who has graduated from an accredited school of pharmacy and has an active Arizona pharmacy license (or eligible for licensure).Applicants will be reviewed and contacted for interviews. The interviews are typically held from mid-January to mid-February. For questions please contact TMC Pharmacy Residency Program Director Samantha Low or Residency Coordinator Brian Strang.
Tucson Medical Center is the largest hospital in Southern Arizona with more than 600 beds. It is a nonprofit community teaching hospital with a fully electronic medical record, barcode medication administration and computerized provider order entry, making it one of the few HIMSS Stage 7 hospitals in the world.TMC provides the following services: level 3 newborn ICU; adult and pediatric ICUs; pediatrics; general medicine; general, orthopedic, neurology and women's surgery; outpatient clinics for wound, pain, cardiac rehabilitation and infusion therapy; adult and pediatric emergency; and inpatient and outpatient hospice care.
TMC Pharmacy is committed to the responsible provision of medication therapy for the purpose of achieving defined outcomes that optimize a patient’s quality of life. Pharmacy provides comprehensive and integrated distributive and clinical pharmacy services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The department is fully responsible for processing, delivering and monitoring drug therapy on all patients. Inpatient pharmacy services are organized using a combination of centralized and decentralized patient-focused care models with automated drug availability on all patient care units.About the Department
- Staffing includes approximately 40 pharmacists, 45 technicians, the pharmacy residents and several interns.
- Clinical services provided in adult medicine, adult surgery, adult neurology, adult cardiology, intensive care, women’s care, pediatrics, newborn intensive care, emergency services and hospice.
- Specialty/consult services include nutrition support/TPN, antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP), opioid stewardship and pharmacy informatics.
- Management consists of pharmacy director, manager of operations, clinical manager, two pharmacist clinical coordinators and three technician supervisors.
- Support staff includes informatics pharmacists, Pyxis analysts, 340b analysts and a formulary/utilization pharmacist.
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