PGY1 Pharmacy Woodland Hills, California

The KP Woodland Hills PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program is designed to prepare pharmacist-clinicians for acute and ambulatory care environments, for PGY-2 Residency or Fellowship training, BPS board certification, as well as adjunct faculty in schools and colleges of pharmacy.

Our PGY1 pharmacy residency program builds on the Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and training to advance the development of clinical pharmacists who take responsibility for medication-related outcomes of their patients.

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Pharmacy Services

Since 1986, Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center has proudly served the Woodland Hills and West Ventura community. With a membership of over 270,000 members, our service area has 14 medical office buildings in the cities of Woodland Hills, Porter Ranch, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Oxnard, and Ventura.

The department of Pharmacy at KP Woodland Hills practices in a variety of settings, including ambulatory care, acute care, outpatient, drug use management, and management. Inpatient and outpatient pharmaceutical care services are provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our pharmacy department is also a teaching site for many IPPE and APPE students.

Inpatient pharmacy clinical services are centralized; however, our pharmacists participate in routine rounds in adult and neonatal intensive care units, antibiotic stewardship, geriatrics, and home infusion as well as being part of the multidisciplinary team code blue response and code stroke response.

Our pharmacists utilize their professional knowledge, skills, and the latest literature and national guidelines — true evidence-based practice. Our ambulatory care pharmacists manage care in the following clinical services: anticoagulation, heart failure, oncology, infectious disease, geriatrics, new member program, population care management, nephrology, special needs program, chronic pain management, primary care, and many more!

Woodland Hills At A Glance

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Learning Experiences

Required Learning Experiences

• Orientation
• Acute Care
• Oncology
• Drug Use Management
• Cardiology
• Drug Information (Lottery)

Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences

• Practice Management
• • Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
  • Residency Research Project
  • Emerging Therapeutics Strategy Program
• Teaching and Education
• • Journal Club / Critical Literature Assessment
  • Pharmacy Student Teaching

Elective Learning Experiences

• Chronic Pain Management
• Diabetes and Obesity
• Family Medicine
• Geriatrics
• Infectious Disease
• Nephrology
• New Member Program
• Community Service: Free Clinic of Simi Valley (Volunteer)

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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: 131613 and ASHP Program Code: 92370

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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
• The 3 letters of references/recommendations utilizing the form in PhORCAS is required for all reference writers.  Please advise the reference writer to copy and paste the traditional letter in the free text box under optional narrative comments question #4.
• Application Deadline: January 10, 2025

Additional Information:

• Please refer to PhORCAS to confirm PGY1 application deadline

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Interview Details

• Interview Required: Yes
• Interview Dates: February 2025
• Click here to link to the Virtual Information Sessions: 
  • October 24, 2024 – 12p.m. – 1p.m. PST
  • November 12, 2024 – 12p.m. – 1p.m. PST
• In-Person Open House:
  • December 4, 2024 – 11:00a.m. – 1p.m. PST (Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, Auditorium B)

**This residency agrees that no person at this residency will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant**

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