UK HEALTHCARE Solid Organ Transplant
About the Program
The solid organ transplant pharmacy residency is a one-year ASHP-accredited specialty residency designed to provide in-depth experience in the care and management of solid organ transplant patients. The primary emphasis of the residency is placed on the development of clinical practice skills while delivering patient-focused care. Residents are actively involved as a transplant team member by optimizing pharmacotherapy, facilitating transitions of care, verifying orders, documenting clinical consults, as well as educating patients.
The transplant residents participate in clinical research activities that are presented at national meetings and are submitted for publication. The program is affiliated with a nationally-recognized college of pharmacy which provides residents with opportunities to engage in educational activities including precepting Doctor of Pharmacy students and facilitating group discussions and didactic lectures. Upon completion of the program, residents are expected to demonstrate competency in the areas of clinical transplant pharmacy practice, written and oral communication, teaching, leadership, and clinical research.
Application Requirements
- Letter of Intent
- CV
- Complete online PhORCAS application
- Three (3) Letters of Recommendation using the Standardized Reference Form on PhORCAS (one must be from program director if currently enrolled in a PGY1 program)
Core Rotations
- Orientation (one month for external and longitudinal for internal)
- Kidney-Liver Transplant (two months)
- Lung Transplant (two months)
- Transplant Clinic (two months)
- Heart Transplant/Failure (one month)
- Infectious Diseases (one month)
Elective Rotations
- Cardiothoracic Surgery (one month)
- Medical ICU (one month)
- Internal Medicine (one month)
- Diabetes Clinic (one month)
- Peri-Operative Care (one month)
- Specialty Pharmacy (one month)
- Medication Use Safety (one month)
- Additional month(s) of any core experience
Other learning experiences may be developed based on resident interest and preceptor availability
Longitudinal Experiences
- Staffing (generally required every 2-3 weekends as a clinical pharmacist on the combined cardiology / transplant pharmacy team)
- Clinical Research
- Precepting & Teaching
- Journal Clubs & Presentations
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.