Program Design
This ASHP-accredited specialty residency in Infectious Diseases (ID) Pharmacy is a one year post-doctoral training program that fosters the development of specialty skills in ID pharmacy practice and antimicrobial stewardship. The purpose of this program is to prepare our residents to excel in the provision of pharmacy clinical care to patients with infectious diseases or who are at risk for infectious diseases. This residency focuses on training in antimicrobial stewardship along with experiential ID clinical pharmacy practice serving diverse patient populations in a variety of practice settings. Multiple leadership, research, teaching, and precepting opportunities are available to our residents throughout the course of the year.
Required Rotations
- Adult ID Consult Service I & II: two 1-month learning experiences
- Pediatric ID Consult Service: 1 month
- Microbiology Laboratory: 1 month
- Antimicrobial Stewardship I & II: two 1-month learning experiences
- Orientation and Research Months: two 1-month learning experiences
- ID Immunocompromised Host Consult Service: 1 month
Required Longitudinal Experiences
- Ambulatory Care ID: ID/HIV Clinic, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service, and Immunocompromised Host ID Clinic: one half-day per week
- Antimicrobial Stewardship: Service on the Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (CASP) team
Elective Rotations
All elective rotations are offered as 1-month learning experiences
- ID Medicine Acute Care Service
- Inpatient Adult Solid Organ Transplant
- Medical ICU
- Inpatient Adult Stem Cell Transplantation
Residency Research Project
Each year, our resident participates in a research or quality improvement project related to ID Pharmacotherapy or Antimicrobial Stewardship. At the end of the year, the resident is expected to share their findings along with recommendations to the relevant groups within the institution. The resident is also required to write a manuscript in a publishable format to fulfill this project requirement. It is strongly encouraged that the resident presents the results of their project at a professional ID or pharmacy meeting or at a venue such as the UNC Residency Symposium.
Clinical Staffing
Clinical staffing responsibilities include 15 staffing days distributed throughout the year and every third weekend. Activities include verifying medication orders, providing pharmacokinetic consults, responding to drug information questions, attending codes, and providing patient education.
Requirements for Program Completion
In order to receive a certificate of Residency completion, residents must complete all requirements specified in the appointment agreement:
- Complete all scheduled learning experiences
- Receive an evaluation score of “Achieved for the Residency” (ACHR) for at least 85% of PharmAcademic objectives required by the program
- Complete a one year research project or a pre-specified part of a multi-year research project, including all of the following: data retrieval, data analysis, formal presentation (poster OR platform) at a local/regional/national forum, creation of a draft manuscript in publishable quality, project proposal submission, creation of a data collection tool, and IRB submission (if appropriate)
- Prepare and submit for publication consideration a minimum of one manuscript based on work conducted during the residency year
- Contribute approximately 400 hours of staffing support to the department through weekday, weekend, day/evening and holiday clinical and/or operational staffing requirements based on departmental need
- Attend at least 8 hours of resident CE programming
- Complete all evaluations in PharmAcademic, ASHP's approved tool
- Provide a 30-60 minute (RPD determined) ACPE accredited CE program for pharmacists and/or pharmacy technicians within and outside the Department of Pharmacy
- Participate in required departmental “on-call” services as necessary to support departmental functions
- Serve as a support resource/teaching assistant at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy during at least one semester of the academic year
- Serve on a designated hospital or health system committee as assigned by the program
- Complete a medication use evaluation or quality improvement project
- Document completion of the PGY2 Infectious Diseases program appendix as required by ASHP
- Attend all PGY2 ID program specific POD learning sessions, unless absences are excused by the RPD
- Conduct an evaluation of one or more initiatives within CASP and prepare a written summary of findings
- Upload files to document completion of all required residency components into Pharmacademic (CE, MUE, research project, data collection tool, manuscript, IRB, research proposal, appendix completion, etc.)
