Residency Program Director
Tamara Knight, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Manager - Ascension Texas
PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency - Dell Children's
ASHP Match #290113
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 pediatric 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 Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, a freestanding academic pediatric hospital with a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Level I Trauma Center. Residents also have the opportunity to complete rotations at our adult academic teaching hospital (Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas) and four of our community hospitals.
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 7 required rotations and 3 elective rotations.
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Required
- Pediatric Internal Medicine
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Adult Internal Medicine
- Adult Critical Care
- 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
- Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
- The pharmacy resident will provide direct patient care in our pediatric cystic fibrosis clinic approximately 2 afternoons per month
- Staffing
- Once every third weekend at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
- One major and one minor holiday
- Academics
Current Residents
Sophia Fontana, PharmD - PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Pharmacy School: Texas A&M University
Contact: sophia.fontana@ascension.org