General Description
The PGY2 Cardiology Residency is an organized, directed postgraduate training program that focuses on the development of the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to provide pharmaceutical care in cardiovascular pharmacy practice. The program is structured in accordance with the ASHP Accreditation Standard for Specialized Pharmacy Residency Training in Cardiology.
2024-2025 Recruitment Plans
Thank you for your interest in the PGY2 Cardiology Residency Program! We have early committed this position, thus will not be recruiting this year.
Program Purpose
The residency program in cardiology pharmacy practice is designed to develop practitioner expertise in cardiovascular pharmacotherapy in order to practice in the inpatient or outpatient setting as a clinical pharmacy specialist.
Program Structure
Required Rotations
- Orientation (1 month)
- General Cardiology (2 months)
- Cardiology Critical Care Unit (2 months)
- Heart Failure/Transplant (2 months)
- Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit (1 month)
- Ambulatory Cardiology (VA) (1 month)
- Longitudinal Outpatient Anticoagulation or Post-ICU Discharge Clinic (4 hours per week for 16 weeks)
Elective Clinical Rotations
- Pediatric Cardiology (Inpatient and Outpatient Adult Congenital Disease) (1 month)
- Medical Ventricular Assist Device (1 month)
- Emergency Medicine (1 month)
- Medical Intensive Care (MICU) (1 month)
Additional Required Longitudinal Activities
- Research project
- Writing project (or additional research project if previously published a review article)
- ACPE-Accredited 1-hour CE Presentation
- Teaching at College of Pharmacy (3 hours per week for 1 semester)
- Develop/modify content for online learning for the Doctor of Nurse Practitioner Pharmacology Course
- Rotation based teaching (2 topic discussions per rotation; serve as primary preceptor for 1 or more P4 APPE rotations)
- Professional committee involvement
- Institutional committee involvement
- ACLS code blue pager coverage (1-week commitment, approximately 6 times throughout the year)
- Core cardiology topic discussions and journal club (6 topics and 6 journal clubs/late breaking clinical review)
- Development of a guideline or protocol for cardiology or related areas
- Completion of cardiology-related quality improvement project
- Develop and deliver medication-related talk to LVAD/heart transplant patient support group (if scheduling allows)
- Develop nursing and/or physician in-service
- Participation in pharmacist code response training
Additional Required Activities
- Poster/Platform presentation
- Presentation at PGY2 cardiology specific conference (e.g. ACC, ACCP, AHA)
- Presentation at Great Lakes Pharmacy Resident Conference (as applicable)
Other Optional/Elective Activities
- Completion of teaching certificate program
- Complete online journal club through ACCP Cardiology PRN
Staffing Responsibility
Approximately every 3rd weekend for no more than 15 clinical weekends, 1 minor holiday, and 5-day major holiday block throughout the year
Research and Publications Opportunity
Through the research and writing requirements of the program, the resident has the potential to produce at least two manuscripts suitable for peer-reviewed publication by the end of the residency. The resident will participate in the development and implementation of a research study protocol of interest, relevant to Cardiology. Experience in protocol writing, data collection and analysis, manuscript preparation and publication will be provided. Development of writing and presentation skills is available through writing of review articles and research papers, providing written communication to other healthcare professionals, as well as presentations to the Department of Pharmacy personnel and at local, regional and national meetings.
Teaching Opportunity
Residents will receive a faculty appointment as Adjunct Clinical Instructor with the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. Experience in rotation-related precepting and teaching of Pharm.D. students and PGY1 residents is widely available. In addition, the Resident will gain experience in classroom teaching of Pharm.D. students at the College of Pharmacy.
Preceptors
- Sarah Adie, PharmD, BCCP
- Simona Butler, PharmD
- Angie Clark, PharmD, BCPS
- David Cordwin, PharmD, BCCP
- Mike Dorsch, PharmD, MS, FCCP, BCPS (AQ Cardiology), BCCP
- Sabrina Dunham, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP
- Megan Ingebrigston, PharmD, BCCCP
- Sarah Lewis, PharmD, BCPS (AQ Cardiology), BCCP
- Tomasz Jurga, PharmD, AACC, BCPS, BCACP, BCCP
- Denise Sutter-Long, PharmD, BCPS
- Liz VanWert, PharmD, BCPS
- Claire Walter, PharmD, BCPS
Residency Director Information
Sabrina Dunham, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Cardiovascular Critical Care
Residency Program Director – PGY2 Cardiology
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan Health
Email: [email protected]