Pharmacy Residency Program at The Medical Center of Aurora

Residents can expect to rotate through the following specialties:

Required

• Antimicrobial stewardship (6 weeks)
• Behavioral health (6 weeks)
• Internal Medicine (6 weeks)
• Cardiology (6 weeks)
• Critical care (6 weeks)
• Emergency medicine/trauma (6 weeks)
• Orientation (6 weeks)

Longitudinal (year-long)

• Administration
• Medication safety and regulatory compliance
• Practice management (staffing)
• Residency project
• Teaching and precepting

Elective (may choose two electives, 4 weeks)

• Behavioral health 2
• Critical care 2
• Emergency medicine and trauma 2
• Informatics
• Pediatrics
• Toxicology
• Additional elective experiences are available and can be developed based on residents needs and interests

As part of the practice management (staffing) longitudinal rotation, the resident will staff every third weekend in an assigned pharmacy area. Staffing shifts will be during the day or evening shifts but will not include the overnight shifts and will be 10 hours in length. Residents may staff a central pharmacy or a decentralized site in various clinical units. As a result of the staffing requirement, residents will work 12 days on/2 days off, and five days on/2 days off schedule. Changes to this schedule may be made by arrangement with the residency program director or assistant pharmacy director. The resident will also be required to staff one major hospital-recognized winter holiday of their choice, either Thanksgiving or New Year's Day. The residents will be given Christmas Eve night and Christmas Day off.

The resident will have the opportunity to attend the American Society of Health-System Professionals (ASHP) Midyear in December and the Mountain States Conference in May. Residents will present the preliminary results of their residency research project as a poster at Midyear and will assist with recruiting. Final research project presentations will be completed at Mountain States. While every effort is made to secure funding for resident travel, final approval is dependent on budgetary decisions.

Residents must be licensed as registered pharmacists in the state of Colorado. Licensure must be completed at the earliest possible date. If the resident is not licensed before their residency program start date, they must obtain a valid Colorado intern license until pharmacist licensure is completed. The resident is expected to be licensed as soon as possible unless extenuating circumstances arise (i.e. already a pharmacist in another state and experiencing reciprocating issues). Extenuating circumstances will be evaluated by pharmacy leadership. The resident will be dismissed from the residency program if not licensed by 1/3 point from the start date of the residency program.

The deadline for all application materials is January 2nd. Application materials must be submitted via PhORCAS. Applicants must be a graduate or candidate for the graduation of an accredited pharmacy degree program (or one in process of pursuing accreditation), or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP).

Interview offers will be extended in late January. Interviews will be conducted in early to mid-February.

The following is a list of all preceptors for each department.

Internal Medicine

• Primary Preceptor — Keifer Taylor, PharmD, BCPS
• Supporting Preceptor — Christine Pan, PharmD
• Supporting Preceptor — Abby Twigg, PharmD, BCPS

Administration

• Primary Preceptor — Melissa Miller, PharmD, MBA
• Supporting Preceptor — Steven Weis, PharmD
• Supporting Preceptor — Mollie Esseveld, PharmD

Antimicrobial stewardship

• Primary Preceptor — Chanah Gallagher, PharmD, MS, BCPS
• Supporting Preceptor — Matt Seely, PharmD, BCPS

Behavioral health

• Primary preceptor — Jennifer Lee, PharmD, BCPP
• Supporting preceptor — Matt Seely, PharmD, BCPS

Cardiology

• Primary preceptor — Amina Mujkic, PharmD
• Supporting Preceptor — Andrew Reuter, PharmD

Critical care

• Primary preceptor — Jennifer Hipskind, PharmD, BCCCP
• Supporting Preceptor — Amina Mujkic, PharmD

Emergency medicine and trauma

• Primary preceptor — Chris Isaacs, PharmD, BCEMP

Informatics (Elective)

• Primary preceptor — Peter Van Es, PharmD
• Supporting preceptor — Kelley Sander, PharmD

Medication safety and regulatory compliance

• Primary preceptor — Alex Schmeling, PharmD, BCPS

Orientation

• Primary preceptor — Eric McLain, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, CNSC

Pediatrics (elective)

• Primary preceptor — Abbie Schauble, PharmD, BCPPS

Practice management

• Primary preceptor — Natalie Reinig, PharmD
• Supporting preceptor — Jacob DeCelles, PharmD

Residency project

• Primary preceptor — Eric McLain, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, CNSC

Teaching and precepting

• Primary preceptor — Natalie Reinig, PharmD
• Supporting preceptor — Eric McLain, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, CNSC

Toxicology (Elective)

• Primary preceptor — Shireen Banerji, PharmD, DABAT