ASHP Accredited
Program Director: Briana Kocher, PharmD, BCACP
Positions: 1
Application Due: January 2, 2027
Starting Date: TBD
Estimated Stipend: $56,000 + benefits
Purpose Statement & Program Overview
Individuals completing the Post-Graduate Year Two (PGY-2) Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program at WVU Medicine Ruby Memorial Hospitals shall be highly qualified independent providers of ambulatory care pharmacy practice. The resident shall be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team, educator of healthcare professionals and patients, be able to perform practice-related research, and be leaders in medication safety. The resident will exhibit a commitment to the profession of pharmacy and be able to develop their own personal plan for professional development. Residents will conduct their daily practice with a high level of maturity and leadership. Residents completing this program will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities in ambulatory care practice.
The PGY-2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency at WVU Medicine provides the resident with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to become a competent practitioner. The program is a twelve-month, postgraduate training experience composed of orientation, primary care- internal medicine, transitions of care, anticoagulation, cardiology, and a selective specialty clinic. Additional elective experiences will be scheduled to meet the resident’s interests. The resident will complete a longitudinal pharmacy practice component including staffing in the hospital’s discharge pharmacy. Additionally, there is time devoted to research and training in the various dispensing areas of pharmacy.
Required Learning Experiences:
- Orientation, 4 weeks (May be shortened for a resident who completed PGY1 at WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals)
- Discharge Pharmacy Staffing, 12 months
- Research Project, 12 months
- Teaching and Precepting, 12 months
- Anticoagulation Management, 1 day per week for 20 weeks
- Ambulatory Pharmacy Administration (Management), ½ day per week for 48 weeks
- Internal Medicine Transitions of Care Clinic, 1 day per week for 20 weeks
- Primary Care – Internal Medicine, 4 weeks
- Advanced Primary Care I, 1 day per week for 20 weeks
- Advanced Primary Care II, 1 day per week for 20 weeks
Selective Required Learning Experiences:
Will complete at least one from each category. May choose to take others as elective. (2.5 days per week for 10 weeks)
- Cardiology
- Cardiology Clinic
- Heart Failure Clinic
- Specialty Clinic
- Gastroenterology Clinic
- Neurology Clinic
- Rheumatology Clinic
Available Elective Learning Experiences:
Will complete two from the list below or from above selective required if not already taken (2.5 days per week for 10 weeks). Other elective experiences may be available depending on resident interest and preceptor availability.
- Endocrinology Clinic
- Family Medicine
- Weight Management
Available Elective Learning Experiences:
Will complete one 4 week block rotation to conclude the residency year.
- Advanced Ambulatory Clinic
- Advanced Precepting
- Advanced Ambulatory Pharmacy Administration
Pharmacy Practice Component
- PGY2 Pharmacy Residents practice every third weekend in the hospital discharge pharmacy.
- All residents work one summer (Memorial Day, Labor Day) and one winter holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s).
Residents may opt to work additional pharmacist shifts and will be compensated at the standard pharmacist rate, including shift differential. Residents are reminded that the primary objective of the residency year relates to the residency program objectives, and achievement of these objectives should not be hindered by other activities.
PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Director
Briana Kocher, PharmD, BCACP, graduated from West Virginia University School of Pharmacy in Morgantown, WV 2014. Upon graduating, she completed a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and Kroger Pharmacy in Lexington, KY. Briana currently provides pharmacy services in an outpatient internal medicine clinic.
PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Coordinator
Carrie Betras, PharmD, BCACP, graduated from West Virginia University School of Pharmacy in Morgantown, WV in 2019. Upon graduating, she completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency and a PGY-2 in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. Carrie then returned to Morgantown and has been in her current position at WVU Medicine in an outpatient internal medicine clinic since 2021.