What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Resident - PGY2 Infectious Disease position at UCLA Health Careers?
This PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency Program is designed to prepare competent practitioners in the areas of infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship. Its graduates will be prepared to seek clinical specialist positions in these areas or tenure-track positions within academic medical centers and university-affiliated schools of pharmacy. Furthermore, upon completion of this program, graduates will be positioned to sit for the advanced practice Board Certification exam in Infectious Diseases (BCIDP).
UCLA Health is an academic medical center (two campuses) with the capability of providing its PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident with a well-rounded experience in direct patient care activities, longitudinal and collaborative research opportunities, teaching and lecture responsibilities, building leadership and organizational skills, and mentoring opportunities across many disciplines. The PGY2 ID Pharmacy Resident will gain or reinforce their clinical knowledge in the areas of infectious diseases pharmacotherapy, clinical microbiology and disease state management for both adult and pediatric patients with infectious diseases complications. Our PGY2 ID Pharmacy Resident will be expected to serve as the infectious diseases clinical content expert to multiple disciplines throughout the academic year: adult and pediatric infectious diseases, neurocritical care, emergency room medicine, orthopedics and solid organ transplant (including bone marrow transplant) infectious diseases. As a member of the health care team, the PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident must function independently through assessment, research and application of knowledge to optimize therapeutic drug therapy for his/her patients. This PGY2 ID Pharmacy Resident will serve in the layered learning model as a co-preceptor to affiliated school of pharmacy Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) pharmacy students and UCLA PGY1 pharmacy residents.
The PGY2 ID Pharmacy Resident will have the opportunity to participate in the ambulatory care clinics and transitions of care setting as longitudinal care experiences throughout the year: Infectious Diseases Transitions of Care (IDTS)/Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and Adult HIV Care.
The PGY2 ID Pharmacy Resident will have research opportunities that may include pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic therapeutic drug modeling studies or anti-infective utilization and/or outcome-based studies with the expectation that the results will be presented at a major pharmacy or infectious diseases conference. Leadership development opportunities will present themselves throughout the year with the PGY2 ID Pharmacy Resident taking an active role in medication safety efforts, participation within the University of California, Infectious Diseases Collaborative monthly meetings and related Infectious Diseases Resident Network (IDRN), co-chairing the Antibiotic Subcommittee meetings as well as participating in other designated standing Health-System-wide committees and initiatives.
1 year contract position as part of ASHP Match
Salary: $39/hr ($81,432 annually)
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000
