How's everyone doing in their residency after PharmD school?

[rutpharm]

I wanted to see how everyone's experience has been so far in residency.So I will start myself and hopefully all of us residents can share our experiences. I am doing a two year residency. It has been good so far, right now I am doing a combination drug information and practice management rotation. Been pretty busy days are generally at least 10-12 hours sometimes a little bit more however time just flies so no complaints.

I have had some interactions with physicians and nurses. Basically found both healthcare professionals to be quite receptive to my recommendations. Right now trying to decide what area to focus on during my 2nd year.. but I have some time to make that decision. How are the rest of you guys and gals doing in your residency?

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[sungs01]

Im not in a residency program, but I am really interested in them. I was wondering what the process was in order to do a residency. Do you have to look into the hospital and apply by yourself? are they rare and hard to get or do most hospital offer a residency program for PharmDs? Do you get paid while in residency? or any other insight you have on residency would be much appreciated. Sorry i couldn't reply to any of your questions but hopefully I can get some help from you. thanks in advance.

 

[rutpharm]

I would be glad to help Sungs01. What year are you in? First this is a great site for any questions you have about residencies and to search for them.

http://www.ashp.org/rtp/index.cfm?cfid=20055140&CFToken=946657

The process I went through which is typically what most people do is to contact hospitals, universities, pharmaceutical companies, etc. during your last professional year before the ASHP midyear which takes place in the first week of December. You can setup quite a few interviews with the programs you're interested in. Keep your mind open because you may find out alot of other programs you may be interested at the ASHP midyear or find out you are not so interested in the programs that you interviewed with.

Most hospitals do offer them residencies however I would recommend you thoroughly look over the residency. Talk to the previous year residents (a big must), ask questions during your interview, and if you have a bad feeling about any program than by all means you should consider another program.

Most residencies go through the match which you fill out a list and the hospitals, etc fill out their own list. A few of the residencies and all of the specialized residencies are non-match.

Fortunately we do get paid during residency (one or more years of no pay would be tough). The pay is 1/2 to 1/3 of what you may get right out of school. I hope this answers some of your questions. Feel free to post or pm me any other questions you have.

 

[npp71681]

Hi!
rutpharm,

I have lot of questions for you, since you're currently in Residency Program. I am a Pre-Pharmacy student. Sometimes, I have seen on websites like Careerbuilder.com that hospitals are looking for Staff Pharmacists, Director of Pharmacy, and Clinical Pharmacists, but for the Clinical Pharmacist they don't specify what kind of Clinical Pharmacist they need. For example, Clinical Pharmacist specializing in Cardiology, Oncology, or Drug Information, etc... so how do I know which Specialist they need? After a PharmD have finished the Residency he/she called Clinical Pharmacist, right? I checked the website that you have above and looked through their Online Residency Directory and in that they don't have Cardiology listed under their Residency list, so is that mean there is no residency for Cardiology? Because I was thinking of doing a residency in Cardiology and Oncology. They have Oncology listed there, but not Cardiology.

Any help will be really appreciated!

Thanx!

 

[MNnaloxone]

Things are well here. I'm in the middle of my ICU rotation (finished Cards 2 weeks ago). Getting tired of working patients up only to have them get transferred out soon enough on me (either D/C the good way or the bad way). Ditto on the days-10 hours at the hospital, and then another hour or two reading at home.

Cards team wasn't too receptive to having a PharmD on the team. However, my ICU team is quite the opposite. I'll miss them soon enough.

Can't wait to get into my clinic next month. I think I've seen enough Propofol to start myself on Lopid as a precaution.

 

[sungs01]

thanks so much for the information. Good luck in your residency.

 

[bgreet]

Hey rutpharm are you doing this in jersey (im assuming you attended rutgers from your name? ) Just wondering so I can perhaps pass some info onto my pharmacy buddies about what they can do after school instead of going into retail.

 

[J Lucas]

Cards team wasn't too receptive to having a PharmD on the team.

Wow can you elaborate on that more? What would give youthat impression?Is it everyone or one particular person?Why wouldnt they be receptive?

 

[Fermata]

Wow can you elaborate on that more? What would give youthat impression?Is it everyone or one particular person?Why wouldnt they be receptive?

::cough Stent Jockeys cough::

 

[J Lucas]

::cough Stent Jockeys cough::

Sorry, inside joke?

 

[Fermata]

Sorry, inside joke?

Cards docs don't make money off of prescribing medication.

 

[MNnaloxone]

The Cardiac ward at our hospital is staffed with a DCP, but she is unable to round with any of the 3 cardiac teams. So having a PharmD round with them is a new experience for them. Plus, a lot of the problems were deemed 'hands-off' because the cards team wanted to Cath 'em and send them back to wherever they came from (back to their PCP-he can deal with the lipid profile...). Seemed that I was more a thorn in the side than doing much good. Some attending physicians were pretty good about including pharmacy in discussions, some...not so much.

Suffice it to say that I learned a lot. Most of it on my own. Not so in the MICU (where I am now)-the PharmD is very involved with the MICU team.

 

[htyotispharm]

Are there any full clinical pharmacists positions? I work at a major cancer center pharmacy and all of the pharmacist have B.Sc Pharm and then went back to get the PharmD. Only one has a PharmD + residency. All of them do the same work though;50% clinical and 50% distribution. The rph who did the residency complains about how he can't find a position that is at least 75-80% clinical. He feels that he wasted two years after PharmD because in some cases he does less than the other pharmacists.