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. Therefore, we are seeking four outstanding pharmacy resident candidates to join our expanding team of professionals.
Our 12-month PGY1 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 PGY2 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 set forth by ASHP. 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.
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:
The length of the learning experience is noted after each experience.
Residents may choose four elective learning experiences from the following list. All electives are four weeks 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 residency program provides training in all aspects of acute care pharmacy, the Pharmacy Practice Experience will include a staffing commitment of three weekend days per month 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. The purpose of this project is to teach the resident how to conduct and complete a major project as well as develop and strengthen their independent practice and problem-solving skills. Additionally, the major project should teach the resident how to critically analyze and/or improve a service or process that has the potential to benefit the pharmacy department or healthcare facility. The project will be presented at the Southeastern Residency Conference, and a manuscript, suitable for publication, 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 with a primary goal of developing the resident’s teaching skills in an experiential practice setting.
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 seven paid holidays, 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 with dedicated office space containing individual desk space, laptop computers with office docking capabilities to dual monitors, phones, storage space, and a color printer.
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 are 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 are 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 Residency Matching program (www.natmatch.com/ashprmp).
Submit application via PhORCAS (www.ashp.org/phorcas)
For additional information, contact:
Rebecca Satterwhite, PharmD, BCPS
Residency Program Director
Department of Pharmacy Services
Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center
777 Hemlock Street, MSC 113
Macon, GA 31201
Phone: (478) 633-2521
Email: rebecca.satterwhite@advocatehealth.org