Residency Program Director
Cindy McCune, PharmD, MBA, BCCCP
Clinical Operations Manager - Dell Children’s Medical Center
PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency
ASHP Match #664758 - Early Committed for Residency Year 2024 - 2025
Residency Program Coordinator
Elizabeth Anatrella, PharmD, BCPPS
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist - Dell Children’s Medical Center
Email: elizabeth.anatrella@ascension.org
Program Description and Purpose Statement
The PGY2 Critical Care Residency at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas is designed to provide the resident with a concentrated 12-month experience focused on critical care medicine. At the completion of this residency, the resident will be prepared to fulfill the role of a clinical pharmacy specialist in a critical care unit. Based in a pediatric facility, this PGY2 residency offers the unique opportunity to further specialize in pediatric critical care while still establishing critical care skills that are necessary to care for critically ill patients of any age.
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. The PGY2 resident also has the opportunity to complete rotations at our adult centers offering critical care experiences.
The PGY2 Critical Care Residency at Dell Children’s Medical Center is in ASHP Candidate Status.
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 8 required rotations and 2 elective rotations.
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Required
- Introduction to Pediatric Critical Care Staffing
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Neonatal Critical Care
- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
- Adult Intensive Care (Medical, Surgical, or Cardiovascular ICU)
- Emergency Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Precepting in a Critical Care Unit
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Elective
- Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- 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
- 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 precepting rotation
- Monthly journal club
- Quarterly Clinical Presentations
- Teaching and Learning Fellows Program with the University of Texas College of Pharmacy (optional)
- Practice Management
- Formulary management project
- Medication use evaluation
- Policy and/or guideline update
- 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 Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
- ICU Coverage
- Two to three holidays
- Medical Emergency Response
- When on rotation at Dell Children’s Medical Center, the resident will carry a code pager at all times and attend all codes and traumas called over the pager system.
- When on rotation at Dell Children’s Medical Center, the resident will carry a code pager at all times and attend all codes and traumas called over the pager system.
- Academics
Current Residents
Brionna Hudson, PharmD - PGY-2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident
PGY-1 Residency: MetroHealth Medical Center
Pharmacy School: Chicago State University
Contact: brionna.hudson@ascension.org