Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Training

Residency training in Fontcalent Prison Psychiatric Hospital.

Currently, training in legal and forensic aspects for both psychiatrists and residents is not regulated and is significantly scarce. However, concern on these areas has increased throughout recent years, and hence there are increasingly more young professionals interested in Psychiatry’s legal and forensic issues. Nevertheless, during the specialized training of residents, Legal Psychiatry is p...

Educational outcomes necessary to enter pharmacy residency training.

It is the position of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) that formal postgraduate residency training, or equivalent experience, is required to enter direct patient care practice. Therefore, it is important to align professional degree educational outcomes with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to enter residency training. This position statement addresses the outcomes ne...

Pharmacy residency and the medical training model: is pharmacy at a tipping point?

Thomas J. Johnson, Pharm.D., m.B.a., BCPs, FashP, is Director of Hospital Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Critical Care, and Postgraduate Year 2 Critical Care Residency Program Director, Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD. JaneT L. TeeTers, m.s., is Director of Accreditation Services, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Bethesda, MD. Addre...

Recommendations for Aligning PGY2 Pharmacy Residency Training and Pharmacy Specialist Board Certification.

With the increased focus and anticipated growth in specialty training and certification within the profession of pharmacy, it is important for the profession to step back and evaluate the manner in which its adopted education and certification systems interface. As a result of specialty practice development, significant growth is occurring in both postgraduate year two (PGY2) pharmacy residency...

Medical training in psychiatric residency: the PGY-1 experience.