Critical Care Pharmacy Residency (PGY2) - Jacksonville, Fla.

Program Description
The 12-month Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville provides comprehensive clinical knowledge and skills that will enable you to provide high-quality advanced pharmaceutical care for critically ill patients. Training is focused on care of the critically ill patient, practice management and pharmaceutical investigation.

Your educational experience will occur in a challenging, quality-oriented practice and learning environment, with a diverse patient population and a faculty dedicated to patient care and the advancement of the practice and profession of pharmacy.

Your experiences will include:

• Designing and managing therapeutic regimens, establishing outcomes and associated monitoring parameters for critically ill patients
• Participating in clinical and operational services that support safe medication use processes
• Training in pharmacy practice management to allow an understanding of the integration of services and programs that support departmental mission and goals
• Serving as a co-preceptor for Pharmacy Students and PGY-1 Pharmacy Residents for their critical care practice rotations
• Investigating a particular element of critical care pharmacotherapy as a research project

Accreditation
The PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency Program is accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville is also an ASHP-accredited program.

Mayo Foundation is also accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools Higher Learning Commission.

Higher Learning Commission
30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60602-2504
(800) 621-7440
(312) 263-0456
Fax: (312) 263-7462

Facilities
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville was established in 1986 as a comprehensive medical facility in the southeastern United States, where advanced programs in education and research support the highest-quality patient care.

Patient care activity is centered around the interconnected Davis, Mayo and Cannaday buildings and the inpatient towers. The state-of-the-art Birdsall Medical Research Building is a center for neurological disease research. The Griffin Cancer Research Building was completed in 2001 to support oncology research.

In April of 2008 Mayo Clinic will open a new 214-bed facility which will support a wide variety of comprehensive clinical services for hospitalized patients, including surgical and medical intensive care units, specialized transplant services for liver, heart, lung, kidney, pancreas and bone marrow transplant patients, and advanced cardiac, neurology, and neurosurgery facilities.

Pharmacy Services
The Department of Pharmacy employs approximately 70 people, including 36 pharmacists. Comprehensive pharmacy services include:

• Disease-state directed practice
• Pharmacist specialty practices
• Advanced technology support, including wireless PCs and clinical decision support tools
• Investigational drug services
• Pharmacokinetic monitoring
• Target drug monitoring programs, including renal dosing, IV to PO conversions and therapeutic interchange
• Drug Information Center
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee programs and newsletter

Mayo Clinic utilizes an electronic medical record, including computerized provider order entry and an electronic medication administration record, and a computer-based monitoring system to provide advanced pharmaceutical care. This system integrates data from pharmacy, laboratory, and microbiology and utilizes specific algorithms to alert pharmacists to potential situations where therapy, safety or costs can be positively impacted.  This integrated system:

• Provides patient demographic, laboratory and microbiology data; medications; and drug levels during medication profile review, while on team rounds and during dispensing activities
• Identifies patients whose medication therapy requires a pharmacist’s daily review
• Identifies and review treatments that are inconsistent with established medication rule-based algorithms
• Allows documentation of pharmacist-performed clinical activities and interventions

Graduation and Certification
Upon successful completion of your PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from the College of Medicine, Mayo School of Health Sciences.

Resident Achievement
Graduates of the Mayo Clinic PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy and PGY1 Pharmacy Residencies in Jacksonville have consistently found immediate employment in academia, hospital pharmacy practice and ambulatory practice. Approximately one-third of the programs’ graduates have accepted positions at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.

Positions
Mayo School of Health Sciences has one PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident position and four PGY-1 Pharmacy Resident positions available at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. This ensures you will receive a comprehensive educational experience with close one-on-one instruction.