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Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center is a 637-bed nonprofit, community-teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Macon, Georgia. Atrium Health Navicent is part of Advocate Health, which includes the Atrium Health, Wake Forest University, Advocate Health, and Aurora Health Care Systems.
Distinguished nationally for its excellence, Atrium Health Navicent is one of the premier teaching hospitals in the United States and serves as the primary teaching hospital for the Mercer University School of Medicine. Atrium Health Navicent supports medical residency-training programs in family practice, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics along with fellowships in critical care, infectious disease, geriatrics, and orthopedic traumatology. Atrium Health Navicent also partners with a number of central Georgia universities and colleges to offer advanced training for pharmacy and nursing students. As a teaching hospital, Atrium Health Navicent attracts the best and the brightest to the area. We are expanding our PGY-1 program starting in the 2025-2026 year by adding two additional PGY-1 positions. Therefore, we are seeking four outstanding pharmacist candidates to join our expanding team of professionals.
Our 12-month PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency program has been accredited by the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) since 1995. Our residency program is an organized, directed, postgraduate training program that centers on the development of the knowledge, critical thinking skills, and leadership needed to yield a well-rounded clinical pharmacist, that can pursue a specialty PGY-2 residency or work in a variety of settings.
PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build upon a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals, and objectives. Residents who successfully complete PGY1 pharmacy residency programs will be skilled in diverse patient care, practice management, leadership, and education and be prepared to provide patient care, seek board certification in pharmacotherapy, and pursue advanced education and training opportunities.
The resident must be a highly motivated, proactive pharmacist who desires to obtain and excel in advanced education and training, leading to an enhanced level of professional practice of pharmaceutical care.
In order to provide training in all aspects of contemporary pharmacy practice, the resident will complete organized learning experiences incorporating the following areas:
These competency areas will be taught via the following required learning experiences:
Residents may choose two elective learning experiences (two of which are direct patient care**) from the following list, all one month in length:
Upon successful completion of the program, trainees are awarded an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) accredited residency certificate.
The pharmacy residency program follows ASHP’s Duty Hour Requirements. To ensure our pharmacy residency program provides training in all aspects of acute care pharmacy management, the Pharmacy Practice learning experience will include a staffing commitment every other weekend as well as one evening per week. The resident is allotted one “off-duty” day for each weekend that is worked.
During the residency year, the resident is required to complete a major project directed at enhancing personal and professional growth while still benefiting the pharmacy department through innovative changes in the way pharmacy is practiced. The project will be presented at the Southeastern Residency Conference and a manuscript will be prepared prior to completion of the residency program.
The option to pursue a teaching certificate will be made available to the resident via a partnership with Mercer University College of Pharmacy. Mercer’s practice-based teaching certificate program is based on ASHP Residency Standards and ACCP Guidelines. A primary goal of the program is developing the resident through practice and to teach the skills required to function in both an experiential setting where teaching is involved or in an academic environment.
The decision to pursue a teaching certificate will be optional and must be conveyed to the Residency Program Director prior to the start of the residency year. The residents will follow Mercer’s clinical track program as it focuses more on precepting in an experiential setting versus an academic or classroom environment.
The resident annual stipend is approximately $60,000. Full employee benefits are available including accrued paid time off as well as medical, dental, and life insurance. Educational travel support is provided for the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, Southeastern Residency Conference, and other offerings as approved by the program director. Residents are provided a dedicated office space containing individual desk space, laptop computers with office docking capabilities to dual monitors, phones, storage space, and a color printer.
Ranked nationally among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals in eight pediatric specialties and for rehabilitation, Atrium Health has also received the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize, as well as the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Award for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care.
Due Date: January 3rd
Number of Positions: 4
Eligibility: Applicants must be a graduate or candidate for graduation of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited degree program or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee certificate from NABP, with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Candidates must be eligible for Georgia licensure. Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPEs) in acute care, participation in and presentation of research, leadership experience as well as membership and involvement in pharmacy organizations is preferred. Recommendations submitted on behalf of applicants should include specific examples relating to the candidate's ability to function in an acute care environment. Once applications have been reviewed, applicants will be contacted letting them know if they were selected to advance to the interview phase.
The Pharmacy Practice Residency at Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center participates in the ASHP Matching Program and requires all applicants to participate in the Match. The PhorCas online application system should be utilized for submission of all application materials.
Register for the ASHP Resident Matching program: www.natmatch.com/ashprmp
Submit application via PhORCAS - www.ashp.org/phorcas
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