PGY1 Pharmacy Riverside, California

The Riverside Medical Center (RMC) is in Southern California, 18 miles northeast of Disneyland in Orange County. The Kaiser Permanente (KP) Riverside Service Area, (RSA) extends throughout Riverside County, with two hospitals located at two medical center campuses with fifteen outlying medical office buildings, and one ambulatory surgical services building servicing over 580,000 members.

RMC includes a 226 bed, teaching hospital, providing services in: Emergency, ICU/CCU, Level Three Neonatal Intensive Care, Medical and Surgical Care, Pediatrics, Labor and Delivery, and Oncology; an accredited Family Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program, and a nursing training program, accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program, and is a practice site for the Inland Empire PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency Program with Kaiser Permanente San Bernardino County and Riverside County programs. RMC is a KP National Center of Excellence for Advanced Bio-Chemotherapy inpatient and ambulatory services with advanced renal cell carcinoma and melanoma patients and The Joint Commission Disease Specific Certification for Advanced Primary Stroke Center. The Moreno Valley Medical Center hospital has 101 licensed medical/surgical beds. In addition, in Murrieta, CA, the ambulatory surgical services building provides same-day surgeries and includes a sterile compounding licensed oncology/specialty infusion pharmacy to serve our members in the growing southern cities in Riverside County.

The PGY1 Residency Program at Kaiser Permanente, Riverside follows guidelines set by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), provides thorough training in a variety of specialties and has been accredited by ASHP since 2009. The Kaiser Permanente, Riverside PGY1 pharmacy residency program will develop mature pharmacists who provide world class pharmaceutical care in multiple patient populations. They will function as a member of an integrated health care team, demonstrating proficiency, confidence, and compassion. They will educate patients, health care providers and students, earn an ASHP accredited teaching certificate and develop practice management and administrative skills adaptable to their practice setting.

Pharmacy Services

The KP RSA Pharmacy Services include two, 24-hr Inpatient Pharmacies, a shared Home Health Infusion Pharmacy in San Bernardino County and Riverside County, four licensed Oncology and Specialty IV Infusion Center Pharmacies (RMC, Moreno Valley, Palm Desert, and Murrieta), 13 KP licensed outpatient pharmacies and 16 different Clinical Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services. KP RSA also offers IPPE, APPE, and AE, pharmacy student teaching rotations in ambulatory care, inpatient and outpatient pharmacies, and drug education/formulary management with various Schools of Pharmacy.

Our Inpatient Pharmacy Services provide centralized medication dispensing with automated dispensing on patient floors, electronic medical records and CPOE. The Pharmacists provide drug therapy recommendations and targeted drug therapy management under collaborative drug management protocols in all disciplines.

Our Clinical Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services provide medication therapy management utilizing collaborative drug therapy management protocols with pharmacist prescriptive authority and patient education in the following services: Anticoagulation, Heart Failure, Renal, Oncology and Specialty IV Drug Infusion, Oral Oncology, HIV/Hepatitis C, Medicare Part D Medication Therapy Management, Psychiatry, Hypertension, Hypercholesterolemia, Patient-Centered Medical Home Practices in Primary Care for diabetes population management, and Specialty Pharmacy Medication Therapy Management (Irritable Bowel Disease, Rheumatology). Ambulatory Care Pharmacists also provide consultative pharmacy services and patient education in Controlled Substance Stewardship/Pain, New Member Medication Review Service, Neurology Memory Clinic, and Medication Safety initiatives/Drugs to Avoid in the Elderly.

Riverside At A Glance

Learning Experiences

Required Learning Experiences

Orientation – 3 Weeks
Acute Care Inpatient (DPC) – 8 Weeks
Acute Care Medicine (DPC) – 4 Weeks
Drug Education/Drug Information & Formulary Management – 4 Weeks
Oncology/Specialty Drug Therapy Infusion (DPC) – 5 Weeks
Outpatient Anticoagulation Service (DPC) – 5 Weeks
Patient-Centered Medical Home in Primary Care (DPC), (Includes population care management in diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia) – 4 Weeks
HIV (DPC) – 4 Weeks
Leadership & Practice Management Longitudinal – 52 Weeks
Medication-Use System and Medication Safety (Longitudinal) – 49 Weeks
Research & Project Management (Longitudinal) – 49 Weeks
Teaching, Education, and Dissemination of Knowledge (Longitudinal) – 36 Weeks

Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences

Acute Care Inpatient (Longitudinal) (DPC) – 2 Weeks
Leadership & Practice Management (Longitudinal) – 52 Weeks
Medication-Use System and Medication Safety (Longitudinal) – 49 Weeks
Research & Project Management (Longitudinal) – 49 Weeks
Teaching, Education, and Dissemination of Knowledge (Longitudinal) – 36 Weeks

Elective Learning Experiences

Any required learning experience may be selected as an elective experience with specialization and/or research activities
Additional elective learning experiences in Ambulatory Care: Heart Failure; Patient-Centered Medical Home in Primary Care; HIV; Renal; Pharmacy New Member Program, Controlled Substance Stewardship/Pain, and Specialty Drug Use Management; Oral ChemotherapAdditional elective learning experiences in Ambulatory Care: Heart Failure (3-Weeks)/(4-Weeks); Renal; Pharmacy New Member Program (PNMP), Controlled Substance Stewardship/Pain, and Specialty Drug Use Management (Irritable bowel syndrome, chronic inflammatory bowel disease); Oncology Elective-Oral Chemotherapy; Medication Therapy Management Medicare Part-D
Additional Longitudinal elective learning experiences in Inpatient Pharmacy focus areas in any of the following: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care; ICU/CCU; NICU; and TPN/Nutrition
Acute Care – Emergency Medicine (Kaiser Permanente, Downey Medical Center)

Requirements for Acceptance

Must be licensed as an Intern Pharmacist in the state of California by the first day of residency program.
Resident must be a licensed California pharmacist within 120 days from the program start date. Residents who are not licensed as a pharmacist within 120 days from the program start date will have their term of appointment extended by the number of days the resident is without licensure past the 120-day deadline up to a maximum of 45 days. Failure to obtain a California state pharmacist license within 165 days from the program start date will result in the resident being dismissed from the program and employment will be terminated.
To be eligible for pharmacist licensure, candidates must be graduates or candidates for graduation from an ACPE accredited degree program (or one in the process of pursuing accreditation) or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Examination Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the NABP.
For more information regarding licensing in California, please visit www.pharmacy.ca.gov
Certifications (If applicable): BLS, ACLS
Candidates must be registered in the National Matching Services, Inc. (NMS).
Candidates must participate in the ASHP Matching Program.
Program NMS Code: 158013 and ASHP Program Code: 92013

Application Requirements

Statement of Interest/Letter of Intent
Curriculum Vitae
Official Pharmacy School transcripts, sent directly from the applicant’s college or school of pharmacy
Three letters of references/recommendations utilizing the form in PhORCAS
Application Deadline: January 6, 2025

Interview Details

Virtual interview required: Late January – Mid February
Click here to link to the Virtual Information Sessions:
- October 22, 2024 – 3p.m. – 4p.m. PST
- November 5, 2024 – 3p.m. – 4p.m. PST
- December 17, 2024 – 3p.m.- 4p.m. PST
Additional Information (i.e. Open House, etc.): Please RSVP to Christhel Cheng at Christhel.D.Cheng@kp.org for the 2024 Open House Event in November – December, may also be conducted in person and/or via virtual meeting.
Open House Flyer

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