Residency and Fellowships

ASHP Educational Outcomes, Goals, and Objectives for Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Pharmacy Residency in Medication-Use Safety

Specialty Residency in Medication Use Safety (PGY2)
UMass Memorial Medical Center

The Medication Use Safety Pharmacy Residency Program is a postgraduate training program that focuses on the development of clinical, analytical, and leadership skills for future leaders in healthcare. The Residency offers advanced training in patient safety best practices and emerging technologies at UMass Memorial Medical Center with an emphasis on clinical applications and impact on patient care. This specialized residency is a 1-year residency designed to foster knowledge and appreciation for the opportunities in a hospital pharmacy practice setting for patient safety and automation. The resident will gain experience with the implementation and management of National Patient Safety Goals, ADE surveillance, Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE), smart pump management; controlled access cabinets (Pyxis), RFID, point of care barcoding, clinical documentation, and PADE rules based alerts engine. Finally, the resident will have the opportunity to work with nationally recognized leaders in patient safety and further develop personal leadership skills.

Christian A. Hartman, PharmD, MBA
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Department of Pharmacy
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655

Phone:(774)-443-7832
hartmanc@ummhc.org

Specialty Residency in Medication Use Safety (PGY2)
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Medication-Use Safety Residency is sponsored by The Johns Hopkins Department of Pharmacy in collaboration with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The goal of this residency is to prepare the candidate to assume a leadership role in devising and implementing process improvements that improved patient care safety. Through this unique program, residents gain experience in various methodologies used to measure medication-use safety, participate in the application of technologies that improve the medication-use process, learn and apply methods to promote a culture of safety, analyze complex systems to identify and correct system flaws, develop effective communication techniques and understand the many human-factors that impact the safety of patient care. Residents completing this program will be positioned well to function as a Medication Safety Coordinator in a heath-system setting.

E. Robert Feroli, PharmD, FASHP
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street, Carnegie 180
Baltimore, MD 21287-6180
Phone: (410) 955-4184
FAX: (410) 955-0287
Email: bferoli@jhmi.edu

Specialty Residency in Medication Use Safety (PGY2)
Community Health Network/Purdue University School of Pharmacy

Dan Degnan, PharmD, MS, CPHQ

Community Health Network

1008 East Clay Street
Email: DDegnan@ecommunity.com
(317) 621-5268 (office)

Safe Medication Management Fellowship
Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)

ISMP's Safe Medication Management Fellowship is a unique 12-month program beginning each July that educates a healthcare practitioner in error prevention and safe medication use methods. Fellows are based in ISMP's Huntingdon Valley, PA, office near Philadelphia, and learn and work collaboratively with leading experts to develop and implement interdisciplinary error-prevention strategies that focus on system analysis and effectively reduce the risk of medication errors.

The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship
American Hospital Association

The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship provides opportunities for senior leaders to advance the process of creating cultures of safety and to promote breakthroughs in patient care. The knowledge gained through the Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship will prepare the next generation of health care leaders as they champion patient safety and make it a reality. Candidates for this Fellowship Program are motivated and innovative leaders from across the spectrum of health care including: executive officers, medical officers, nurse executives, risk officers, physicians, nurse practitioners, infection control practitioners, pharmacy leaders, and quality improvement leaders.

Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety
Virginia Commonwealth University

Department of Health Administration
Virginia Commonwealth University
1008 East Clay Street
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0203
(804) 828-5460 (office)
(804) 828-1894 (fax)

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