UK HEALTHCARE Internal Medicine

The Internal Medicine residency is a one-year ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency designed to develop specialized clinical practice skills in pharmacotherapy while providing opportunities for didactic and clinical teaching and clinical research. The primary practice site is within the UK Chandler Medical Center Internal Medicine service, spanning >10 medicine teams. Opportunities exist for internal medicine experiences via traditional academic teaching teams as well as experiences on private practice model-based advanced practice providers (APP)/hospitalist teams. Additionally, there are opportunities for internal medicine experience on the unique hospitalist rounding services or BOOST (Better Outcomes for Optimizing Safe Transitions) teams.

Residents are actively involved as an internal medicine team member by performing medication history interviews, delivering comprehensive patient-centered care via pharmacotherapy optimization, order verification, pharmacokinetic monitoring, anticoagulation management, clinical consult documentation in the electronic medical record, as well as discharge counseling of adult internal medicine patients. Clinical staffing shifts occur every fourth weekend (on average) and night/weekend in-house on-call shifts.

The adult internal medicine resident is also expected to participate in a longitudinal internal medicine clinic. Opportunities exist for precepting pharmacy students during Adult Internal Medicine rotations as well as providing didactic lectures and clinical laboratory lectures within the UK College of Pharmacy. Residents provide an ACPE-accredited Grand Rounds presentation during the year for pharmacy students, residents, and preceptors. The residents participate in providing 24-hour clinical pharmacy service through the in-house on-call program.

The completion of a research project with a written manuscript suitable for publication is a required activity. The research project should also be able to be presented at a national meeting. Participation in UK College of Pharmacy's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Research Skills Development programs is optional for residents who have previously completed a teaching certificate program but required for residents who have not previously completed a teaching certificate.