Our PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at McLane Children's aims to expose and develop our residents by coaching, modeling, and facilitating the expanded pharmacist's role in direct patient care while preparing them for a pediatric PGY2 and BCPS certification
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – McLane Children Hospital offers an ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency designed to provide a broad experience in hospital pharmacy practice. We are a level 4 NICU and level II trauma center.
Our residents focus on the comprehensive care of patients through evaluation and intervention of medication orders, interdisciplinary rounding, antimicrobial stewardship, transitions of care, education, and research.
PGY1 pharmacy residency programs build on the Doctor of Pharmacy education and outcomes to contribute to developing clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions, eligible for board certification and postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency training.
We accept one Resident each year.
Curriculum
Overview
- Resident complete 13 rotations from July 1 through June 30
- Required rotations are four weeks in length
Opportunities for our residents:
- Antimicrobial stewardship participation
- Teaching certificate through Texas A&M Irma Rangel College of Pharmacy.
- Manuscript writing program for publication
- Write and Present an ACCP-accredited CE
- Attendance at multiple research and pharmacy conferences for networking and learning
- Ability to choose a variety of electives to design learning experiences to your interest.
- No On-Call
- Code response training
- Multiple mentors in a variety of areas
- Multiple co-residents in a variety of fields
Rotations
Required:
- Orientation
- Administration
- Research
- Neonatal ICU I & II
- Pediatric ICU I & II
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Longitudinal leadership, administration, research
- Longitudinal: Staffing
- Longitudinal: Cystic Fibrosis Clinic (2nd and 4th Friday of the month)
Elective:
- Pediatric focus:
- Ambulatory care: pediatric clinic
- Infectious diseases
- Emergency medicine
- Repeat any required experience
- Adult focus:
- Academia
- Ambulatory care: family medicine clinic
- Emergency department
- Informatics
- Inpatient family medicine
- Main adult pharmacy
- Poison control
- Palliative care
Staffing component
- Holidays per year: One major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years) and Memorial Day
- Weekends: Every 3rd Weekend
Teaching component
- Coordinated program with Texas A&M University Irma Lerma College of Pharmacy for Teaching Certificate
- Provide one lecture and assist in the Pharmacotherapy Lab with P3 students at Texas A&M University Irma Lerma College of Pharmacy
- Assist with APPE students on rotations at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple
- Precept IPPE students on rotation for 3 weeks
- Provide in-services to healthcare providers
Program requirements
For residents to successfully graduate from the program, they must:
- Achieve 87 percent of ASHP residency objectives by the end of residency year
- Complete an Institutional Review Board-approved research project
- Participate in poster presentations at ASHP Midyear, Baylor Scott & White Health Research Day, and Pediatric Pharmacy Leadership Conference
- Create a manuscript of publishable quality
- Deliver an ACPE-accredited presentation to Baylor Scott & White pharmacists
- Present one project to system Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
- Present Mad-ID course project at local Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
How to apply
We use the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PHORCAS) for applications, transcripts and other supporting application materials.
Application deadline: January 5, 2025
Application requirements
ASHP Code: 74089
Program match: 263213
- Enrolled in the ASHP Match Process
- Have a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from a fully ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy within the United States or equivalent experience
- Have a license in good standing to practice Pharmacy from a recognized State Board of Pharmacy or in pursuit of and eligible for Texas licensure by September 1
- Have a strong interest in clinical practice at a teaching facility
Applicants must also submit through the online PhORCAS system:
- Curriculum vitae
- A letter of intent detailing reason for interest in completing a PGY1 pharmacy residency, short and long-term career goals, and how our program will assist in meetings those goals
- Three ASHP letters of recommendation forms (located in PhORCAS). Preferred authors of your letters ranked from most to least desired: P4 preceptors, employers, college faculty, committee and personal colleagues
- Academic transcripts for professional pharmacy education
Residents
Alumni
Stipend and benefits
Residents and fellows are classified as full-time employees of Baylor Scott & White Health.
In addition to our competitive stipend, we offer our residents a full menu of employee benefits. We help offset the cost of many of these benefits; others are options you can choose to pay for yourself.
Here is a selection of benefits we provide:
- Salary is $56,000 for PGY1 residents.
- The benefits package includes health, dental, life insurance and staff discounts.
- Residents accrue 15 days of paid time off (PTO), which includes vacation, holiday, sick leave, and interview leave beyond the allotted five days, and professional leave not sponsored by the program.
- Residents will be allowed professional leave and travel expenses for attendance at professional seminars and meetings such as the ASHP Clinical Mid-Year Meeting and the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists Annual Meeting
- Free parking, discounted bus passes available and a DART rail station on campus
- Access to Baylor Health Sciences Library and electronic references
- Dedicated office space and computer
Contact us
Megan Hampton, Pharm.D., BCPS
Program Director
Megan.Roberts@BSWHealth.org
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency
Baylor Scott & White Health
1901 SW H.K. Dodgen Loop
Temple, TX 76502
Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Specialty Clinic - Temple
1901 SW H.K. Dodgen Loop
Temple, TX 76502
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