Curriculum
As a PGY-2 infectious diseases resident, you devote much of your time to comprehensive training as a member of the interdisciplinary team. A breadth of learning experiences has been designed to increase and refine your clinical competency, provide evidence-based pharmacotherapeutic care plans, and develop your confidence as an independent practitioner.
Direct patient care services allow you to provide patient-specific pharmaceutical care services. Responsibilities include development of individualized care and monitoring plans for various patient populations. After coaching, instruction, and modeling by a preceptor, you are assessed and constructively provided feedback on how to further refine the delivery of evidence-based recommendations.
Drug information to patients, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals. Your preceptors offer feedback to enhance your drug-information retrieval skills using a variety of resources and modalities.
Required learning experiences
The PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Residency at Mayo Clinic is designed to provide a diverse experience for the future ID pharmacist. Required learning experiences include:
| Area | Length |
|---|---|
| Orientation | 5 weeks |
| Inpatient ID Consult Service I | 4 weeks |
| Inpatient ID Consult Service II | 4 weeks |
| Inpatient ICU ID Consult Service | 4 weeks |
| Inpatient Immunocompromised Consult Service | 4 weeks |
| Inpatient ASP Service | 4 weeks |
| Virology Clinic | 4 weeks |
| Microbiology | 4 weeks |
| Medication use evaluation and quality improvement | Longitudinal, 12 months (averages 4 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Presentation and Teaching | Longitudinal, 12 months (averages 4 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Professional Development | Longitudinal, 12 months (averages 2 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Research | Longitudinal, 12 months (averages 12 hours per 4 weeks*) |
| Staffing | Longitudinal, 12 months (averages 34 hours per 4 weeks excluding July*; totals 288 hours over the course of the residency year) |
*This is an average and there will more and less hours at different timeframes throughout the residency year
Elective learning
Electives are available in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings that allow the resident to tailor the program to their needs. The list below includes learning experiences available as electives to the PGY-2 infectious diseases resident. Additional elective learning experiences may be available upon request.
- OPAT (adult or pediatric)
- Inpatient pediatric infectious diseases consult service
- Inpatient orthopedic infectious diseases consult service
- Health-system ASP*
- Outpatient ASP
- Inpatient solid organ transplant infectious diseases consult
- Infectious diseases pharmacy administration
- Infection prevention and control
- Emergency department – infectious diseases focus
*Remote rotational elective to Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Southeast or Southwest Minnesota.
Staffing commitment
All PGY-2 residents provide 24 hours of staffing every four weeks. Staffing may include a combination of weekday, weekend, and evening experiences to maintain operational and clinical pharmacy competency and knowledge. No formal on-call program exists.
Curriculum enhancements
The Department of Pharmacy and Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences are committed to developing and maintaining the best education programs. The curriculum and other aspects of this program are assessed constantly and changed as necessary to ensure the highest quality training.