Pharmacy Residency

The Department of Pharmaceutical Services offers up to  3  ASHP accredited PGY-1 residency positions. Our PGY-1 residency trains students to provide the highest level of pharmaceutical care to a diverse patient population in various pharmacy practice settings.

Throughout this program,  our residents become integral members of the medical team by:

• Learning about best practices to collaborate on patient care
• Participating in medical emergencies and trauma codes
• Promoting medication safety
• Providing pharmacokinetic consults
• Providing drug information and education to patients and other healthcare professionals
• Utilizing evidence-based medicine

The PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency experiences include rotations in the following areas:

• Cardiology
• Critical care – Medical intensive care unit (MICU)
• Critical care – Surgical intensive care unit/trauma (SICU)*
• Drug information/investigational drug use
• Emergency medicine
• Infectious diseases (including HIV and HCV ambulatory clinics)
• Internal medicine/stroke unit
• Medication safety*
• Oncology*
• Pediatric pharmacotherapy
• Pharmacy administration and management
• Pharmacy operations psychiatry
• Transitions of care*

*Elective rotation opportunities

Longitudinal experiences include:

• Attending national meetings such as ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Eastern States Conference for Pharmacy Residents and Preceptors
• Designing and implementing a research project, poster presentation, and manuscript
• Facilitating small classroom learning sessions at LIU Pharmacy
• Obtaining teaching certification through LIU Pharmacy
• Required short-call clinical coverage of the Emergency Department pharmacy satellite (including trauma and pediatric notifications and codes)
• Serving on various hospital-wide committees, including the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committees

The PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Emergency Medicine at Maimonides is 1 of the few Emergency Medicine Residencies accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). This residency is designed for Pharmacy Practice Residency trained pharmacists who desire a subspecialty in Emergency Medicine, leading to certification in Emergency Care Pharmacotherapy. The Emergency Medicine Residency is intended to provide residency-trained pharmacists with comprehensive clinical training in the care of acutely ill patients.

Residents will conduct clinically relevant research in an urban community hospital academic environment, become emergency care pharmacotherapy educators, and become competent and skilled emergency medicine, clinical pharmacy managers. The goal of the program is to train pharmacists to manage the medication needs of patients within an Emergency Department by emphasizing the fundamentals and principles of pharmaceutical care and pharmacotherapy.

The PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Emergency Medicine provides 1 of the most unique and rewarding training environments in the country. Surrounded by the 2.5 million residents of Brooklyn, Maimonides serves an incredibly varied and diverse patient population. Our patients speak many different languages and represent many different cultures. Given the diversity of our patients, Maimonides residents have the benefit of firsthand experience with a broad range of pathology not available at other training centers.

The Emergency Department is self-contained and consists of 2 adult areas and 1 pediatric department, each with numerous treatment areas, including a dedicated waiting room, resuscitation bay, and triage booth.

Our program is committed to guiding our residents through the process of conducting and analyzing the results of individualized research projects to provide experience in pharmacy research. Our residents choose a qualified mentor to collaborate with on a research project and have the opportunity to choose from a diverse spectrum of pharmaceutical care specialties to investigate. With their mentor, residents gain research experience, including designing the research project, submitting and presenting an application to our institutional review board, conducting the research, and analyzing the results. The interim analyses are presented as a poster presentation at the ASHP Clinical Midyear meeting in December, and the final results are presented as a platform presentation at the Eastern States Pharmacy Residency Conference in May.

Residents are also required to draft a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed pharmacy journal, and many of our previous residency projects have been featured in a variety of these publications. Our Emergency Department also conducts multiple prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo, and active-controlled trials and has recognized the role of our residents and clinical pharmacists in the Emergency Department in these studies. The residents are involved in providing the investigational medications and ensuring the study investigators remain blinded to ensure the integrity of these studies is upheld.

To qualify for New York State (NYS) pharmacy licensure, in addition to passing the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination and the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination, the NYS Board of Pharmacy requires passing a 3rd licensing examination which focuses on practical demonstration of the ability to practice pharmacy, particularly sterile and non-sterile compounding. The Board allows pharmacy residents to waive the practical exam in lieu of achieving certain competencies through their residency program to provide out-of-state residents a means to fulfill this licensing requirement in a more convenient manner while avoiding potential travel and timing conflicts. Our program offers training over a 4-6-week period at the start of the residency year to those residents who wish to take advantage of this waiver. For more information, please visit the New York State Board of Pharmacy or contact the Residency Program Director.