Residency Program Director
Tamara Knight, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Manager - Ascension Texas
PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency
ASHP Match #187313
Program Description and Purpose Statement
Ascension Seton is offering an ASHP accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program. The PGY1 Pharmacy residency is a 12 month program designed to expose residents to a rich clinical environment where they experience concentrated and diverse training in a variety of pharmacy practice areas.
At the completion of the program, the resident will be prepared to function, with confidence, as a general clinical practitioner in an acute care setting. As an ASHP accredited PGY1 program, the graduate will also be prepared to pursue a PGY2 residency program.
The primary site of the residency program is Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas, an academic medical center and Level 1 Trauma center. Residents also have the opportunity to complete rotations at four of our community hospitals and Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas (an academic pediatric hospital).
Learning Experiences
Residents complete twelve one-month rotations including a one-month orientation and a one-month medication use evaluation/research month completed in December. The ten remaining rotations are made up of 6 required rotations and 4 elective rotations.
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Required
- Internal Medicine - Academic
- Internal Medicine - Community Hospital Site
- Infectious Diseases
- Critical Care
- Pediatric Rotation
- Practice Management
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Elective
- Ambulatory Care
- Cardiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Informatics
- Investigational Drugs
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Oncology
- Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Pediatric Oncology
- Pediatric/Adolescent Psychiatry
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Internal Medicine
- Transplant - Abdominal
- Transplant - Cardiac
- Transplant - Pediatric
- Repeat required rotations may also be considered as an elective
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Longitudinal
- Academics
- Faculty appointment with the University of Texas College of Pharmacy
- Teaching and Learning Fellows Program with the University of Texas College of Pharmacy
- Pharmacotherapy Lab facilitator at the University of Texas College of Pharmacy
- Pharmacotherapy Rounds (Grand Rounds) presentation at the University of Texas College of Pharmacy
- Designated co-precepting rotation
- Monthly journal club
- Clinical Pharmacy Administration
- Formulary management project
- Medication use evaluation
- Clinical on-call (off-site)
- Research
- Longitudinal research project with poster and platform presentation opportunities
- Research training sessions offered throughout the year to support resident research progress
- Staffing
- Once every third weekend at Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas or Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin
- One major and one minor holiday
- Central pharmacy and clinical pharmacy weekend shifts
- Academics
Current Residents
Derek Garza, PharmD - PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Pharmacy School: University of Texas
Contact: derek.garza@ascension.org
Sally Hamdan, PharmD - PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Pharmacy School: University of Houston
Contact: sally.hamdan@ascension.org
Zaynab Omisade, PharmD - PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Pharmacy School: University of Texas
Contact: zaynab.omisade@ascension.org
Kenina Silvera, PharmD - PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Pharmacy School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Contact: kenina.silvera@ascension.org