After completing the 12-month PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, you will be an independent practitioner. You will be prepared to provide advanced pharmaceutical care in emergency medicine and toxicology.

The PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester builds on Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education. It also builds on PGY-1 pharmacy residency training to prepare clinical pharmacists for specialized areas of emergency medicine practice. PGY-2 residencies provide opportunities to function independently as a practitioner by integrating accumulated experience and knowledge. You apply both to patient care and other advanced practice settings.

Residents who successfully complete an accredited PGY-2 pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or specialized positions. They are also prepared for board certification, if available.

Program highlights

The program provides the high-quality didactic and clinical experiences needed to create a well-rounded, competent clinical pharmacist. PGY-2 emergency medicine pharmacy residents:

• Develop expertise, knowledge, and skills in an emergency department environment
• Contribute to an interdisciplinary health care team by participating in all resuscitation team activations. These include trauma, stroke, shock, overdose, acute coronary syndrome, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adult and pediatric patients.
• Recommend patient-specific therapeutic interventions to treat emergent and urgent encounters
• Efficiently and effectively provide accurate, reliable and evidence-based drug information to the interdisciplinary emergency department team, patients and caregivers
• Experience unique multidisciplinary educational opportunities including providing presentations and engaging in simulations
• Enhance skills in conducting clinical research and quality improvement
• Strengthen communication skills by presenting formal and informal lectures, writing a professional manuscript, and leading interdisciplinary discussions
• Network with fellow pharmacy residents and practicing clinicians through professional membership and conferences

Program history

The PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester was accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) in 2008. The residency has produced respected clinicians across the U.S. and is continuously evaluated to identify opportunities for improvement. This evaluation helps ensure graduates transition seamlessly into clinical practice. One candidate is selected each year on a competitive basis.

Facilities

Education for this residency occurs primarily at  Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, a 1,265-bed hospital. The institution is verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center and Level I Pediatric Trauma Center. It is also verified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center.

The emergency department is staffed by nearly 50 emergency physicians and 25 emergency medicine physician residents. The team also includes more than 200 nurses and allied health care staff. The department's pharmacy team consists of emergency department clinical pharmacists, a clinical pharmacy specialist and the emergency medicine pharmacy resident.

Emergency department pharmacy services are provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Many of these hours include double coverage by pharmacists.

The emergency department has 72 beds and universal rooming. All rooms are equipped to handle all levels of patient acuity and to perform intubations and procedures. It is divided into seven functional areas. These include center, east, west, pediatrics, north (observation), south (psychiatry), and resuscitation bays.

Approximately 80,000 patients from a wide geographical area are seen annually, with a significant geriatric and pediatric population. Patients come to the emergency department from the local community, surrounding states, across the country, and around the world. Patient acuity and complexity are high. More than 30 percent of patients are admitted, with half of those admitted to the intensive care unit. Emergency department throughput is consistently the fastest among teaching hospitals nationwide. The median length of stay is approximately 3.5 hours.

Emergency medicine pharmacists provide patient care in Rochester, Minnesota. They also support Mayo Clinic Health System emergency department providers throughout southeast Minnesota and southwest Wisconsin. These pharmacists support 17 different locations through telemedicine and telepharmacy audio or audio/video consultations.