There appears to be a push in the pharmacy world to expand residency programs so “that, by 2020, postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) residency training should be required for entry into practice for all pharmacists who will serve in direct patient care roles.†This according to a recent article in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. In addition the article states that “ASHP conducted a survey to determine if health systems were requiring specialized residency training—now known as postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) residency training—for clinical specialist positions10; 15% of the respondents indicated that such specialized training was required, and 67% indicated that a lesser-trained pharmacist would be hired to fill a clinical specialist position only if a candidate with specialized training could not be found.†Basically acute care pharmacies are looking for pharmacists with more education instead of looking for good pharmacists.
ASHP’s Handbook on Injectable Drugs is online and interactive
I received an email this morning informing me that ASHP’s Handbook on Injectable Drugs is making the leap from paper to electronic media. Welcome. You can get a peak at the open beta test going on now, just follow this link. I played with it for a while. The UI needs a little work, but … Read more